Tales of the Unknown, Volume I: The Bard's Tale

Description

The Bard's Tale takes place in the city of Skara Brae, which has been taken over by the evil wizard Mangar, who has brought an eternal winter over the city. Monsters roam the streets and it is dangerous to stay out in the streets at night.

Your mission is to lead your party of adventurers through the streets, sewers, dungeons, and towers of Skara Brae to search for a way to defeat Mangar.

Bard's Tale continued Wizardry's 3-D perspective while adding a number of innovations such as more character classes, indoor and outdoor adventuring, and color graphics, among other things.

Part of the Following Groups

• Bard's Tale series
• Games featuring auto-mapping
• Games made into books

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User Reviews

Hey, Hey, Skara Brae, what a cool game you have to play!	DOS	Daniel Reed (21)
Set the standard for gaming in its day	DOS	thejayman (16)
Breakthrough RPG in the Home Computer era	Apple II	Frecklefoot (124)
A great early dungeon crawler	DOS	ex_navynuke! (51)
Great In It's Day	DOS	AstroNerdBoy (40)
1st Person RPG Classic	DOS	Yeah Right (61)
One of the Great Dungeon crawls	DOS	mclazyj (28)
One of the all-time classics.	DOS	Mirrorshades2k (282)
Fantasy Role Playing Excitement	Apple II	eqfan (2)
My first ever D&D RPG.... still has classic gameplay current games can learn from	DOS	XplOrOrOr (16)

The Press Says

Your Sinclair	ZX Spectrum	Sep, 1988	9 out of 10	90
The Good Old Days	DOS	Jul 04, 2006	5 out of 6	83
Abandonia	DOS	Nov 09, 2006	4 out of 5	80
RPGFan	NES	Oct 31, 2000	63 out of 100	63
Nintendo Power Magazine	NES	May, 1991	3.1 out of 5	62
GameCola.net	NES	Jan 06, 2006	1.8 out of 10	18

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Trivia

One of the more powerful shields in the game, the Ybarra shield, is in fact named after Joe Ybarra, a producer at Electronics Arts, who was directly involved with The Bard's Tale.