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

aka: Shadow Snare, The Bard's Tale, The Bard's Tale I

Moby ID: 819

[ All ] [ Amiga ] [ Amstrad CPC ] [ Apple II ] [ Apple IIgs ] [ Atari ST ] [ Commodore 64 ] [ DOS ] [ Macintosh ] [ NES ] [ PC-98 ] [ ZX Spectrum ]

Amiga screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — The adventurers guild

thumbnail — Character stats of a party member

thumbnail — Buy equipment

thumbnail — Fight or run?

thumbnail — Another encounter

thumbnail — A fight against some spiders

thumbnail — After the battle: Experience points and gold

thumbnail — Inside a temple

thumbnail — A battle is lost...

Amstrad CPC screenshots

thumbnail — In Game.

thumbnail — Character creation.

thumbnail — One of the party.

Apple II screenshots

thumbnail — Title Screen

thumbnail — Opening Song

thumbnail — Adventurer's Guild

thumbnail — City of Skara Brae

thumbnail — Combat

thumbnail — Weapons Shop

Apple IIgs screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Credits

thumbnail — The shoppe

thumbnail — Brian the fist

thumbnail — Samson

thumbnail — El cid

thumbnail — Merlin

thumbnail — Omar

thumbnail — Nomad

thumbnail — Kobolds

thumbnail — Hobgoblins

thumbnail — Skeleton

thumbnail — Treasure!

Atari ST screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Main menu

Commodore 64 screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Setting up a new game

thumbnail — You are on Main Street

thumbnail — Uh oh, thieves!

DOS screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Game options in the Adventurer's Guild

thumbnail — Viewing a character's stats

thumbnail — Combat!

thumbnail — Walking down the street...

thumbnail — The Thief Temple - One of the first places you will visit frequently

thumbnail — This is Grey...probably because he spends more time being a statue than a dragon.

thumbnail — Title screen (CGA)

thumbnail — Title screen (CGA Composite)

thumbnail — Selecting our party (CGA Composite)

thumbnail — Out quest leads us to... an empty house (CGA Composite)

thumbnail — Our first fight awaits us (CGA Composite)

thumbnail — Game options in the Adventurer's Guild (CGA w/RGB Monitor)

thumbnail — Creating a character (CGA w/RGB Monitor)

thumbnail — Walking down the street (CGA w/RGB Monitor)

thumbnail — Fighting (CGA w/RGB Monitor)

thumbnail — Hooray, we won the battle and got treasure! (CGA w/RGB Monitor)

thumbnail — An empty building (CGA w/RGB Monitor)

thumbnail — Buying an item at Garth's Equipment Shoppe (CGA w/RGB Monitor)

Macintosh screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Character generation

thumbnail — In the city

thumbnail — Battle

thumbnail — Battle options

thumbnail — Selecting spell

thumbnail — Ugly gnome

thumbnail — Character screen

thumbnail — Stats

thumbnail — Equipment

NES screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Starting the game in adventurer's guild

thumbnail — Creating a party

thumbnail — Walling around in Skara Brae

thumbnail — Menu

thumbnail — Battle

thumbnail — Getting experience and money after a battle

thumbnail — A strange statue...

thumbnail — Fighting cats

PC-98 screenshots

thumbnail — [Electronic Arts version] Title screen

thumbnail — Electronic Arts version can be played in Japanese (J) or English (E)

thumbnail — [Electronic Arts version] The Guild (Japanese mode)

thumbnail — [Electronic Arts version] Skara Brae

thumbnail — [Electronic Arts version] Fighting Hobbits (Japanese mode)

thumbnail — [Electronic Arts version] 3 Magicians (Japanese mode)

thumbnail — [Electronic Arts version] Fighting Kobolds (English mode)

thumbnail — [Electronic Arts version] Garth's Equipment Shoppe (English mode)

thumbnail — [Electronic Arts version] Killed Skeleton (English mode)

thumbnail — [Electronic Arts version] Experience points and gold (English mode)

thumbnail — [Electronic Arts version] Empty building (English mode)

thumbnail — [Electronic Arts version] Character stats (English mode)

ZX Spectrum screenshots

thumbnail — There is no pretty load screen. The game loads quickly and this is the start, in the Guild of Adventurers with a default party

thumbnail — The party exits the guild and is in the street. These are dangerous times, there could be trouble ahead.

thumbnail — The party does not have to move to find trouble, it finds them. Got by the Kobolds, to attack or to run?

thumbnail — After choosing to fight the player must then select an action for each member of their party

thumbnail — Markus is going to perform a Party Attack. Later, after reading the manual properly, it is realised this is a silly move. Marcus will now attack his own party...

thumbnail — ... that means his attack is against a specific member, not of the Kobold group but of his own team

thumbnail — When actions the every member of the party have been entered the player is asked to confirm they are OK

thumbnail — The game then runs the attack options for each player

thumbnail — At the end of the round the party has the option to fight or to flee

thumbnail — Not sure how this happened but Brian has killed Merlin! Back to the manual for some serious studying

thumbnail — Another outing and this time after leaving the Guild of Adventurers the party moves North. There are other buildings that can be entered but the player must fight at every turn to get to them

thumbnail — Only to be attacked by three mercenaries ....

thumbnail — then by magicians.....

thumbnail — (the magicians left a nice surprise)

thumbnail — Then the remaining members are attacked by a single Kobold

thumbnail — .. then the party was attacked by a mad dog

thumbnail — The remaining members fled North there is a big building just beyond here that the party did not gain access to because they were ..

thumbnail — ... attacked by a Nomad ...

thumbnail — ... then 5 more Kobolds.... (Isn't anything around here friendly?)

thumbnail — ...and the last member of the party ran into some thieves, but it could just as easily have been skeletons, ogres or something else

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