On Feb 4, 7:07 pm, "RootShell (www.ifreviews.org)"
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> On Jan 25, 9:07 pm, "Bruce C. Miller" <bm3...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > I had a copy of this game around 1992 or so, but it may very well have
> > been older. I can't recall the name of it though, and would like to
> > play it again if I can. Here's what I remember of it:
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> > It was text-based, and I seem to recall the text being set to brown or
> > yellow, but am not 100% sure about that. It fit on a 5.25" floppy. It
> > was a sort of role-playing or adventure game, but you mainly just
> > wondered around getting random encounters. You had no choice of what
> > direction you travelled, you would just hit return or space and
> > something or nothing would happen. Each time the screen would scroll
> > with a large quantity of stats info. I remember you had a pack of
> > followers that would often starve or otherwise die. You could
> > replenish these at least in inns. You would sometimes end up in these
> > inns or taverns where you could do a couple things. Like sometimes you
> > would meet someone and they would either be ugly or pretty and you
> > could then decide whether to have them join your cadre of followers.
> > It would tell you whether they were ugly or not with a short 4 line
> > poem. One poem i remember the last two lines of for ugly females was
> > something close to "she is ugly as sin, do you let her in?"
> > Occasionally when travelling about you would come across the boss
> > villian of the game, who was a wizard. You could then get into a big
> > fight with him and he would possibly run off and you could get loot.
> > This game was a pretty simple one and may have been an amateur effort.
> > I acquired it in a collection of floppies I got from a guy I got a
> > computer from around then and he probably got it off a BBS.
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> > Any of this sound familiar? Sorry about not being sure about a few of
> > these things. It's possible my memory of various text games from that
> > era are mixed up, as it was quite some time ago, so any of these
> > things might not be correct.
>
> bards tale ?
No, this was text-only. I believe the original Bard's Tale had
graphics. In Bard's Tale, you had a standard party, as well. In this
game, you kind of just had a group of people that followed you around,
or at least, the game would keep track of this for you. They really
didn't do much of anything though, if I remember correctly.
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