The Bard's Tale 1 - Tales Of The Unknown

Publication date: 1987

Electronic Arts, Inc.

Also For
Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Macintosh, NES, PC-98, ZX Spectrum
Developed by
Interplay Productions, Inc.
Published by
Electronic Arts, Inc.
Released
Sep, 1987

Genre
Role-Playing (RPG)
Pacing
Turn-based
Perspective
1st-person
Setting
Fantasy

Description

The small country town Skara Brae was enjoying a peaceful life, until an evil wizard known as Mangar the Dark appeared. Monsters have invaded the town, terrorizing its inhabitants. Mangar cast the spell of Eternal Winter on the surroundings, isolating Skara Brae from any possible help. Guards that were entrusted with the task of protecting the town have disappeared within one night. Only a party of brave adventurers can save Skara Brae and defeat Mangar.

The Bard's Tale is a fantasy role-playing game similar to Wizardry games, with first-person exploration of pseudo-3D maze-like environments, and turn-based combat against randomly appearing enemies. Unlike early Wizardry installments, the town can be explored physically, and parts of the overworld are accessible as well. Several dungeons must be explored before the player can tackle the final quest.

Six character classes are available when the player is prompted to create a party of six adventurers in the beginning of the game: Bard, Hunter, Monk, Paladin, Rogue, Warrior, Magician, and Conjurer. The last two can be promoted when specific conditions are met during gameplay. The bard class plays a special role, possessing magical songs that improves the party's performance in combat and are required to solve some of the game's puzzles.

From Mobygames.com. Original Entry

Addeddate: 2014-12-22 08:52:58

Emulator: dosbox

Emulator_ext: zip

Emulator_start: bardtal1/BARD.EXE

Identifier: msdos_The_Bards_Tale_1_-_Tales_Of_The_Unknown_1987

Mobygames: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/tales-of-the-unknown-volume-i-the-bards-tale

Mobygames_also_for: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Macintosh, NES, PC-98, ZX Spectrum

Mobygames_developed_by: Interplay Productions, Inc.

Mobygames_genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Mobygames_pacing: Turn-based

Mobygames_perspective: 1st-person

Mobygames_published_by: Electronic Arts, Inc.

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Reviewer: mrappold - - September 10, 2017
Subject: Great playing it while it lasted

I was playing Bard's Tale with my kids for about a month and developed good characters. Then today we noticed that the characters that took a month to build were all deleted.

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