Bards Tale For Mac Emulator
Bard's Tale 1 (original 1985 game) Crashing I am honestly more excited about the original trilogy than the new(er) game, but unfortunately Bard's Tale 1 always crashes after 30 mins to 2 hours of gameplay for me - the screen just freezes and I have to force quit.
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- Tales of the Unknown: Volume I - The Bard's Tale
Tales of the Unknown: Volume I - The Bard's Tale
DOS - 1987
Also available on: Commodore 64 - Amstrad CPC - Atari ST - Apple IIgs - PC-98
Description of Tales of the Unknown: Volume I - The Bard's Tale
Tales of the Unknown: Volume I - The Bard's Tale (aka Shadow Snare, バーズテイル), a really nice role-playing (rpg) game sold in 1987 for DOS, is available and ready to be played again! Also available on Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Apple IIgs and PC-98, time to play a fantasy, turn-based and dungeon crawler video game title.
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Comments and reviews
Alyfox2019-12-150 point
The trilogy was one of my favorite sets of games from my youth; I pumped hundreds of hours into playing them at my friends place, then on my own PC when I finally got one. Side notes: BT4 was a disappointment but the Remastered original trilogy is really great and I highly recommend getting them
Jim P.2018-09-043 points
This is when EA was ECA and it didn't suck
Dylan Cranford (MasterNinjaDylan)2017-05-141 point DOS version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bard%27s_Tale_(1985_video_game)
This game is amazing.
Dylan Cranford (MasterNinjaDylan)2017-05-1411 points
This game is simply amazing. The creator of this game, Michael Cranford, is my father and when he showed this to me I loved it immediately. This is definitely one of the best RPG games ever made. -Dylan Cranford
Daniel2016-06-293 points DOS version
This game seriously changed my life. So many of my interests to this day (Tolkien, D&D, wizards, 3-D first-person games, RPGs etc) were first brought into my awareness by it.
Mapping on graph paper was half the fun!
Kano2014-03-190 point DOS version
New polarr update for mac. One of the best RG´s ever!
Sc@r2013-07-191 point DOS version
my very 1st rpg i ever played and loved it, i dont think ppl of today would have the patience to play it, i did the same thing aswell with the 99 berserkers.You had to do stuff like that in this game though, of wondering around and just killing, u just couldnt continue on in the game b/c ur guys would b to weak so u had to keep fighting the same guys over and over to level up alot.
Balthazar2013-05-21-1 point DOS version
Apple IIGS version? Laughable.. you want the really pimped out version of the whole series look fer the amiga version, thats the version i played growing up and well, my amiga 2000 made alot of 486 games look shitty (and was 5 or 6 years older)
Kevin2012-12-081 point DOS version
Find the Apple IIGS version, far superior!
guest2012-10-03-2 points DOS version
Review of The Bard's Tale for DOS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwYrfaJ1iBM
oogla2011-09-123 points DOS version
I wish I had a dollar for every time I massacred Baron Harkyn's legions (3 groups of 99 berserkers) when I was a kid. I spent hours killing them over and over and leveling up my party to insane levels. What a great game, good maps, fun story.
woodelf2009-11-240 point DOS version
this was my first adventure game ever.
Thanks guys. It was very nice to play it again.
GnomeLeveler2008-04-240 point DOS version
This and Wasteland are probably my favorite RPGs that employ this type of interface - first-person 3D for navigation and then text-based turns for combat.
Bards Tale provides a really rich system of combat equipment, spells, and magical items. Plus, the monsters and other enemies are truly varied and the slightly animated pictures of them are superb, especially compared to the other games of its time.
This is from the days before auto-mapping was common, so be sure to grab some graph paper and have some fun :)
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Commodore 64 Version
- Year:1986
- Publisher:Electronic Arts, Inc.
- Developer:Interplay Productions, Inc.
Amstrad CPC Version
- Year:1988
- Publisher:Electronic Arts Ltd.
- Developer:Interplay Productions, Inc.
Atari ST ROM
- Year:1987
- Publisher:Electronic Arts, Inc.
- Developer:Interplay Productions, Inc.
Apple IIgs Version
- Year:1987
- Publisher:Electronic Arts, Inc.
- Developer:Interplay Productions, Inc.
PC-98 Version
- Year:1988
- Publisher:Electronic Arts, Inc.
- Developer:Interplay Productions, Inc.
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