The Bards Tale: Tales of the Unknown Amstrad CPC

Interplay Productions Inc (Michael Cranford)

The Bards Tale: Tales of the Unknown

cpc

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bards tale, the - tales of the unknown

1988

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>"They disbelieved my wind dragon...They possessed my greater demon... >Now it's up to the bard and his magic fir horn..." First you explored >the city. Then the cellars and swewers below. Now you're trapped in >Harkyn's Castle. 7 levels conquered and still 9 to go... Command 4 >classes of Magic User: Conjurer, Magician, Sorceror and >Wizard, each with unique spells. And the Bard who makes magic with >his music. 85 Spells in all. But choose well - the wrong spell and >you're history... Pushes the power of your computer to its limits. >So it's fast. It's big. And there's plenty of power for 3-D scrolling, >full colour mazes, amazing sound effects and animated colour monsters. >Excellent game design. Each level is demanding - and different. >There are more monsters, mazes, "specials", logic puzzles, & magic >items than you've ever seen in a game like this before. > -- <cite>Cassette cover</cite> ***Tales of the Unknown:*** Volume I, better known by its subtitle ***The Bard's Tale***, is a fantasy role-playing video game created by Interplay Productions in 1985 and distributed by Electronic Arts. It was designed and programmed by Michael Cranford. Based loosely on traditional Dungeons and Dragons gameplay and inspired by the Wizardry computer games, The Bard's Tale was noteworthy for its unprecedented 3D graphics and partly animated character portraits. The Bard was also an innovation: "The Bard was author Michael Cranford's contribution to the genre, a character who casts spells by singing one of six tunes." It was originally released for the Apple II, and was also ported to the Commodore 64, Apple IIgs, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Apple Macintosh, and NES platforms. ***Gameplay*** The Bard's Tale is a straightforward "dungeon crawl". The objective is to gain experience and advance characters' skills through (mostly) random combat with enemies and monsters. This is done while exploring maze-like dungeons, solving occasional puzzles and riddles, and finding or buying better weapons, armor and other equipment. Source:[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bard%27s_Tale_(1985_video_game))