Does anyone remember the old RPG called "Bard's Tale"?

[iamme]

I used to love that game. I had it on my Apple IIe. I had the dungeons memorized, where I wouldn;t have to look at the monitor and just hit the arrow keys.

My fav characters were the Monk and Rogue. Monks would blast for crazy HP damage, and Rogues had that critical hit ability.

Anyone else play this?

 

[Geekbabe]

OMG !!! The Bard's Tale... the 1st game I ever saw on a computer! Totally addictive

 

[iamme]

Oh hell yeah....

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[NesuD]

hell yea that was a great game and i agree monks kicked ass. I played that way back on an old 8088 i had but it was much nicer on my buddys apple IIE. Ah the memories.

 

[Stark]

that was one of my favorite games, along with wizardry, rescue raiders, and lode runner.

 

[shiner]

Oh hell yes!!! Had a bard named Shumway, after ALF, that kicked ass....man between that game and Starflight I can't begin to count the hours I wasted.

 

[mryellow2]

The Underdogs - Abandon/Share/Freeware

There are a lot of pop-ups but they have quite a collection of oldies, enjoy!

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Hell yeah, all 3. The first and third are real RPG classics of the Apple II days. The second one was a giant letdown, but it was still playable. The Bards Tale, the Wizardrys and Ultima 1-4 were the must-have role playing games. I used to like the monk too, especially in the midgame. Early on he didn't do much damage and later on the monsters had too many hit points for hand-to-hand, but for the middle third of the game monks were killing machines. I never got too much into rogues though, I always considered them to be a wasted character. In all RPG games I just take a ninja or bard or something else with thieving ability, build up that skill and get better combat capability. I think that whole anti-thief mentality started for me when playing The Bard's Tale because you absolutely needed a bard to get into one of the dungeons and having a bard and a thief in the same party was dumb. The thief got dumped, I never missed him and never used one in other games. Odd really considering I used to love playing a thief in real D&D.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Hell, I remember Zork too

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Oh hell yes!!! Had a bard named Shumway, after ALF, that kicked ass....man between that game and Starflight I can't begin to count the hours I wasted.

Starflight. It's amazing that all the space trade/mercenary/combat sims since then still pale in comparison to the enjoyment I got out of that game. The Spemin 0wnz j00.

 

[SaltBoy]

Unfortunately, I never got too much into The Bard's Tale as much as I would have liked.

Now Wasteland, on the other hand... THAT was awesome!

 

[KokomoGST]

I remember playing this on my old Commodore 128 system!

 

[Ameesh]

pretty cool game!

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
Hell, I remember Zork too

Zork 1 was the beginning of my addiction. I remember playing Bards Tale on my Atari 520 way back when as well.

 

[jjones]

I remember playing Bard's Tale on my old Apple IIc. Great game. That and the original Might and Magic were my favorite games back then. Might and Magic was by far the best RPG available then, really awesome for its time, making maps and figuring out the puzzles and riddles was great.

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Hell yeah, all 3. The first and third are real RPG classics of the Apple II days. The second one was a giant letdown, but it was still playable. The Bards Tale, the Wizardrys and Ultima 1-4 were the must-have role playing games. I used to like the monk too, especially in the midgame. Early on he didn't do much damage and later on the monsters had too many hit points for hand-to-hand, but for the middle third of the game monks were killing machines. I never got too much into rogues though, I always considered them to be a wasted character. In all RPG games I just take a ninja or bard or something else with thieving ability, build up that skill and get better combat capability. I think that whole anti-thief mentality started for me when playing The Bard's Tale because you absolutely needed a bard to get into one of the dungeons and having a bard and a thief in the same party was dumb. The thief got dumped, I never missed him and never used one in other games. Odd really considering I used to love playing a thief in real D&D.

I became fond of rogues, my second time going through the game. I wanted to try something different.....they had this cool ability to inflict "critical hits", which killed an enemy w/ one blow. Once you're guy was leveled up high enough the critical hits came pretty often. I just thought that was neato

 

[dafatha00]

i remember hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy in dos

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Originally posted by: Linflas
Zork 1 was the beginning of my addiction.

The first time I played Zork, it was called "Dungeon". Going from 40 characters of text to 80 and escaping the "verb, noun" parser was a huge quantum leap. I think I played every Infocom game with the exception of some of the graphical ones (Sherlock Holmes?) and one of their horror ones (Moonmist?).

Thank Jeebus for my Masterpieces of Infocom CD. A couple of years ago, just for giggles, I went back and tried to solve Enchanter straight through without saving. I made it up to 200 and something points before I botched the turtle puzzle. Frotz me.

 

[allan120]

I played all three Bard's Tales, Might and Magic II, Ultima IV, and Wasteland on my Apple IIC until my eyes popped out. Great classics.

 

[AndrewR]

Hell yes, I remember it! It was a great game. I actually have it on a compilation that someone put together (RPG Archives or something like that). I played the first two, and then stopped in the middle of the third one.

Wasteland was simply one of the best games of all time (just like Bard's Tale!).

Anyone ever play Sentinel Worlds? It was a space RPG that I vaguely remember because I never QUITE finished it -- I was very, very close though.

 

[pcmodem]

Bard's Tale on the IIe?

Hell, I remember playing LEMONADE on the Apple in the 1970s.


I remember when PONG was first arriving in bars, when arcades were pinball joints.


Older than dirt,
PCM

 

[dirtboy]

I loved that game!! Still one of the best games I've ever played.