Following last weekend’s retro jaunt with Taipan, I’ve decided to continue revisiting my early PC gaming days with Tales of the Unknown Volume 1: The Bard’s Tale. While I don’t remember the friend that gave me the game, I do remember playing it for dozens of hours on my Commodore 64. One of the most unique features of The Bard’s Tale was that it allowed you to import characters from Ultima and Wizardry. That was a huge deal at the time. It’s a common feature in 2013, but being able to import characters you’ve already built up felt groundbreaking back then.
The three original Bard’s Tale games were added as a bonus to the digital version of the console port. If you happen to have a copy for Android, iOS, OS X, etc. then you’ll be able to play the three classic games. While several aspects of the game feel rough, there’s lots of monster fighting, treasure hoarding, dungeon crawling, and leveling up to enjoy. If you’ve never played the originals, I recommend giving them a whirl. These games are a nice history lesson in the roots of RPGs.
Now it’s your turn. What’s on your weekend playlist?
I’m in a wedding tonight, and I will be playing plenty of Mario Kart 7 up to the point where I actually have to get ready today. Maybe some Halo 4 tomorrow, but in all likelihood I will be on my 3DS. I should put some more time in White 2 now so I will have beaten the game. I’m not sure whether or not I will transfer my Pokemon from Black to White 2 or not, but now that I have my DSi and 3DS it should be fairly easy, albeit time consuming.
I’ll be playing ass ass in’s creed 2 mostly.
BTW, My wife is really starting to get addicted to Civilizations Revolutions on her new iPhone. I downloaded it to my phone back when it was free and she got hooked on it recently. She only has the free trail version though.
-M