A funny song and dance from the PC game The Bards Tale. I recorded this with my camera, sorry about the quality. If you listen carefully, you can hear my mother decking the table in the next room. Guess I have a few things to learn about video recording... lol...
Bards Tale I (Apple IIe version) The intro + a quick tour of some locations in Skara Brae....Garths Equipment Shop, the Review Board, the Thieves Temple, the Samurai Guardian, the Scarlett Bard + the Cellars. A good Apple II emulator can be found at the link below. applewin.berlios.de & a whole lot of info and game files can be found at the Adventurers Guild bardstale.brotherhood.de...
In this episode, I look at Michael Cranfords 1985 masterpiece The Bards Tale, or Tales of the Unknown: Volume I. This epic role-playing game updated the Wizardry formula with full-color graphics and a detailed town called Scara Brae. Originally developed for the Apple II, The Bards Tale launched a great series and remains a favorite of many fans of the genre. Special thanks to Elizabeth Barton for the hat and vest....
This sequel begins in Skara Brae - recently reduced to ruins by Tarjan, the Mad God of game one. A series of seven quests must be solved before you can track him down and do him in. Missions involve a wider variety of puzzle types due to a new command that permits you to use objects and artifacts. Other improvements include auto-mapping, new character classes, magic spells and dungeon levels (84 of them!) that vary in size and shape. You also get to visit more exotic lands than in the previous installments, for each quest ta...
Forget the quest to save the world, our hero is interested in just two things - coin and cleavage! The gameplay shows the 3rd chapter of the game (12 chapters + bonus areas). There are much more things to do in this area, I did only the MQ-related quests....
