La Corona Encantada

About

La Corona Encantada is a side-scrolling adventure platformer inspired by 80s Spanish gaming. You play as the rightful heir collecting 20 golden coins to lift a curse that turned a thief into gold and froze the future queen. The game blends platforming challenges with exploration, requiring precise jumps and puzzle-solving to navigate traps and enemies. Set in pixelated kingdoms and cursed ruins, the story follows your quest to confront the greedy Royal Advisor. Controls are tight for a retro title, with responsive movement that keeps the difficulty fair if occasionally punishing. Released in 2009, it drew unusual media attention for an 8-bit game, appearing in Spanish radio, TV, and newspapers. Artist Alfonso Azpiri’s work gives it the look of a lost 80s classic, with bold sprites and cassette-tape-era designs. While the challenge can spike, the nostalgic charm and authentic retro feel make it a cult favorite among old-school platformer fans.

Storyline

Stories are told about the kings of the ancient country of Hyoth always wearing an enchanted crown crown that gave them the power to reign. Once upon a time, the perfidious Royal Advisor, driven by his greed, instructed one of his henchmen to steal the crown. This, ignoring the warnings of the evil advisor, put the crown on his head… The Enchanted Crown, feeling that its new master wasn’t in his right to wear it, invoked a terrible curse in the whole region and, as punishment, it transformed the body of the fool servant into golden coins and freezed in ice the damsel who was destined to be the future queen. Only gathering the 20 golden coins, the doors will open, where the traitor awaits impatient for you, the rightful heir to the throne, to recover the lost crown to save your beloved…