Brian Bloodaxe

Brian Bloodaxe is a British platform game written by Charles Bystram for the ZX Spectrum and released by The Edge in 1985.

Working his way through more than 100 screens of platform mayhem, Brian's ultimate goal is to steal the Crown Jewels and seat himself upon the British throne.

Brian Bloodaxe plays as a platform game with some simple "collect and drop objects" aspects.

The game is notable for its esoteric humour which was strongly influenced by the humour of sketch comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, its in-game music (The "Liberty Bell March" by John Philip Sousa, better known to most as the Flying Circus theme tune), and colourful graphics.

It impressed many, scoring 86% in CRASH,[1] 3 out of 3 "hits" in Your Spectrum,[2] and 8/10 in Sinclair User,[3] but Zzap!64 were unimpressed by the Commodore 64 conversion which they felt had not been altered sufficiently from the original version to take advantage of the machine's technical abilities.