Wizards & Warriors - Other Media

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Wizards & Warriors was ported as a standalone handheld game by Acclaim in September 1989, as part of a series of handheld ports by the company which also included WWF WrestleMania Challenge, Knight Rider, 1943: The Battle of Midway, and Rocky. Kuros and his nemesis Malkil were featured – along with the titular characters from Kwirk and BigFoot, Tyrone from Arch Rivals, and characters from NARC – in the 1990 animated series The Power Team, part of the video game reviewing show Video Power. Malkil appeared in an episode of Captain N: The Game Master called "Nightmare on Mother Brain's Street" where the world of the game was referred to as "Excalibur" and not Elrond.

Wizards & Warriors was one of the eight games that were novelized for the Worlds of Power series of NES game adaptations, published by Scholastic Corporation; the novelization was written by the series' creator Seth Godin, under the pseudonym "F. X. Nine". The book was the only one in the series in which no effort was made to edit out the protagonist's weapons on the cover. However, on the cover, Kuros' loincloth was airbrushed on both sides in order to more completely conceal his underside - which is more visible on the cover of the game itself. The novelization is about a boy named Matthew who is having trouble using his imagination for a creative writing class, when he accidentally brings his father's knight figurine to life. He is then spirited away to the land of Elrond to help Kuros defeat Malkil. As with the other books in the series in which nobody actually "died", all of the creatures that they killed were made from the lives of the people of Elrond, and whenever a creature was slain, a person was returned to their normal state. Further in the novel, the two save Kuros sister in the pink caves. While Matthew was invulnerable at the start of the mission, as the two drew closer to the evil wizard, he becomes more vulnerable to the attacks of Malkil's villains.