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Description

The Bard's Tale is a role play classic and can probably be seen – next to the Ultima series by Lord British – as one of the prime fathers of role plays. You and your party consisting of up to 6 characters plus a possible “special character” (conjured monster or randomly met characters) need to search and destroy the evil magician Mangar. The magician has attacked the town of Skara Brae and has bewitched almost all inhabitants to monsters. The adventure leads you through sewers, catacombs and Harkyn's castle to Mangar’s lair, a giant five-storeyed tower (Mangar’s Tower)

Design

Graphics: The game screen is divided into four parts: a window for the happening (upper left), a magic symbol bar directly right to it (here black, see image further below), the party overview (bottom) and an input/output window (upper right). While moving through the labyrinths you get shown a simple 3D graphic of the surroundings. If you encounter monsters, an animated image of the monster type, which is closest to the party, will be shown. Fights are described as vertical scroll text in the input/output window. Sound: Except for one voice music in the title screen and the bard chants there is no sound.