Sir Jean-Paul Jouster – Joust the video game
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Sir_Jean-Paul_Jouster
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Morning_Star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joust_(video_game)
https://youtu.be/BWoiLNri0OM
https://www.free80sarcade.com/joust.php
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/House:Skull_Riders_Game
Sir Jean-Paul Jouster guards the Minstrel, Innes Idle. He has been shamed because he lost his mount, a War Ostrich. He enlists your wizard’s help to procure the materials to smith a new one.
Sir Jean-Paul names his new War Ostrich, Morningstar.
Joust is an action game developed by Williams Electronics and released in arcades in 1982. While not the first two-player cooperative video game, Joust’s success and polished implementation popularized the concept. Player 1 rides an ostrich, player 2 a stork. Repeatedly pressing the flap button gains altitude, while a two-directional joystick controls direction. In a collision with enemy knights riding buzzards—or the other player—the higher rider dismounts the other.
The player controls a yellow knight riding a flying ostrich. The player navigates the protagonist around the game world, which consists of rock platforms floating above a flat island surrounded by lava, via two-way joystick and a button. The joystick controls the horizontal direction that the knight travels, while the button flaps the ostrich’s wings. The rate at which the player repeatedly flaps causes the ostrich to fly upward, hover, or slowly descend. Moving off the left or right edges of the screen wraps around to the other side.
Szandor Q. sent me a message just after I originally posted this. Joust also inspired the Skull Riders minigame you can play to refill your manna flask in the Fairegtrounds area of the Commons and on the minigame sigils in each world. Skull Riders is also available as an in home item through the Crown Shop.
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Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages.
Sir Jean-Paul Jouster and Morningstar images are from Wizard101, and are copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Joust Gameplay, Arcade Cabinet are copyright Williams Electronics
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