Knightmare - Merchandise

Merchandise

A number of items of Knightmare merchandise were produced over the show's run, including seven books written by Dave Morris:

• Knightmare: Can you beat the challenge? (ISBN 0-552-52540-5, 1988)
• The Labyrinths of Fear (ISBN 0-552-52608-8, 1989)
• Fortress of Assassins (ISBN 0-552-52638-X, 1990)
• The Sorcerer's Isle (ISBN 0-552-52714-9, 1991)
• The Forbidden Gate (ISBN 0-440-86317-1, 1992)
• The Dragon's Lair (ISBN 0-440-86328-7, 1993)
• Lord Fear's Domain (ISBN 0-440-86336-8, 1994)

The first of these, Knightmare, told the story of how Treguard came to inhabit Knightmare Castle, revealed once to have been Dunshelm Castle, which Treguard owned by birthright. The next four books were intended for older readers, and took the format of half-fiction, half-interactive story. In these, the first half of the book was a novellette about one of Treguard's adventures, serving as a lead-in to the second half, composed of numbered sections where the reader directed the narrative, similar to the Choose Your Own Adventure books. The next two books retained the interactive story format, but were aimed at a younger audience. Throughout the interactive portions of the books the reader had to keep track of their Life Force and objects collected, and some books had additional statistics or special skills to keep track of. Finally, Lord Fear's Domain was a puzzle book.

There were also two Knightmare computer games released. The first was in 1987, released on the Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, and Commodore 64, and the second Knightmare game in 1991, released on the Amiga and Atari ST. A PC version was proposed for 1995, but the programme finishing put an end to these plans. The latter game was an RPG similar to the Dungeon Master and Eye Of The Beholder games which, whilst well received at the time, had very little to do with the TV series besides the fantasy setting.

A Knightmare board game was also released in 1992, by MB Games.