Magic: The Gathering (Windows)

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Description

The popular card game comes to the computer.

In single player mode, you start with a small deck of cards/spells, wander the land exploring dungeons and battling monsters (and their spefic spell decks). Along the way, you win/lose spell cards, go to markets to trade or buy new ones, and pick up world magics and more life. The game ends when you defeat the 5 powerful elemental wizards.

Multi-player mode supports deck creation from any of the cards, as well as random "sealed deck" games.

This game supported cards from Alpha, Beta, Unlimited and Revised and 4th edition. It also had 12 new cards from the "Astral Set" made specifically for the game.

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Alternate Titles

• "魔法风云会" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "MTG" -- Official abbreviation
• "Magic: Die Zusammenkunft" -- German title

Part of the Following Group

• Magic: The Gathering games

User Reviews

The 2nd attempt to bring the card game into the computer realm. Worked perfectly.	Indra was here (20930)
Good, light Magic	Frecklefoot (203)
If you like M:TG, the game is great...	Chris Martin (1204)

Critic Reviews

Gameplay (Benelux)	Apr 02, 1997	86 out of 100	86
Coming Soon Magazine	Apr, 1997	84 out of 100	84
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Jun, 1997		80
Reset	Apr, 1997	8 out of 10	80
Game Players	Jun, 1997	7.8 out of 10	78
PC Joker	Apr, 1997	75 out of 100	75
PC Games (Germany)	Apr, 1997	74 out of 100	74
GameSpot	Apr 03, 1997	7.2 out of 10	72
Gamesmania.de	1997	70 out of 100	70
PC Player (Germany)	Apr, 1997		60

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Trivia

Patch

In 1999, Internet play arrived via a patch that allowed players to use TEN (the Total Entertainment Network.)

References

The data for all the cards in the game (type, name, description, etc.) is contained in a file called "master.csv" which is actually a .xls spreadsheet which can be easily read by Microsoft Excel. While it's fairly useless to edit it (saving changes leaves you with a corrupt game) it's interesting to note the amount of development-related jokes and references you can find in there. For instance, there's a "Terror from the Deep" card with an amusing description that refers obviously to Microprose's X-COM: Terror from the Deep, as well as other MPS games.

Information also contributed by Zovni

Related Web Sites

• MicroProse Games Magic: The Gathering (official page of the game at the MicroProse website, archived copy from 1996 by the Wayback Machine)