Gargoyles (video game)
Gargoyles: The Video Game was a video game released for the Sega Genesis in 1995. The player controls Goliath as he battles Demona and the Eye of Odin.
Plot Summary
Long ago...
In the year 994 AD, a power-crazed Viking chieftain orders the sorcerers in his command to create a weapon of ultimate destruction that he can use to conquer the world. Through their mystic arts they bring into being an evil artifact of unimaginable power: the Eye of Odin. So terrible is this device, it corrupts all who dare possess it. The Viking chieftain uses it to wage war upon an unsuspecting Northern Europe and the British Isles.
The Viking raiders find little resistance until they reach Castle Wyvern in Scotland. Defending the castle is the guardian known as Goliath, the powerful leader of the ancient race of creatures known as gargoyles. He possesses stone-crushing strength, huge bat-like wings and can climb the sheer rock walls and ceiling of the castle by digging his razor-sharp talons into their surfaces. In Goliath, the Vikings have found a fearsome opponent.
Secreted below the castle are the subterranean chambers of the Rookery which contain the unhatched eggs of Goliath's clan. Should he fail, his entire race is doomed to extinction.
Despite his defeating the Vikings, Goliath is blamed for the ruin of the castle and falls under a curse. He is turned into a stone statue, doomed to remain that way until Castle Wyvern rests above the clouds.
Closer to home...
A thousand years later, an ancient edifice graces the modern day Manhattan skyline. Castle Wyvern has been rebuilt atop a massive skyscraper.
Above the clouds.
The curse is broken. Goliath awakens in a new world and for the first time in a millennium, a gargoyle rules the night.
Goliath becomes aware of a familiar evil presence in this bizarre land -- an evil he has fought before. Somehow, the Eye of Odin survived the centuries with Goliath and leads a new type of army on a path of destruction.
Goliath must chase the Eye of Odin across the rooftops of the sprawling metropolis, battling the mechanized terrors that have been programmed to destroy him. The Eye of Odin must be destroyed and only Goliath possesses the knowledge and the power to succeed -- and survive.
