On 2 Oct 2005 09:43:39 -0700, Patrick wrote:
> wyzwyz wrote:
>> Has she played any of the old "goldbox" AD&D crpgs, like pool of
>> radiance?
>
> Yes! Pool of Radiance was the first big game I ever installed on our
> first home computer. Turned out our computer system was already
> outdated, because it took forever to install the game, and we had to
> wait a good five minutes or so for the game to load every time we
> wanted to play. But that didn't stop us!
>
> In fact, that game is one of our favorite memories. Each of us rolled
> up three characters, and we sat side-by-side and played our way through
> the whole game.
>
> IIRC, there was another such game that we also played. And then SSI
> came out with Eye of the Beholder--which we bought but never played.
> Suddenly it was a first-person maze game, and my wife and I couldn't
> play together anymore. For the next few years we looked in vain for
> something like Pool of Radiance to come around, but it never did (the
> QQP game Red Crystal was a disaster which I returned to the store after
> a brief look). Everybody we talked to said they preferred the
> first-person games.
It sounds like you never played the sequels to PoR, there where actually
4 games in the Forgotten Realms series, 3 games in the Krynn/Dragonlance
series, and 2 for savage frontiers, plus 2 games in buck Rogers (same
engine, but in scifi), there was also unlimited adventures, which was
basically a construction kit for that engine.
and the best part for you is that you could transfer the chars to each
sequel.
FR series
- Pool of Radiance
- Curse of the Azure Bonds
- Secret of the Silver Blades
- Pools of Darkness
DL Series
- Champions of Krynn
- Death Knight of Krynn
- Dark Queen of Krynn
SF series
- Gateway to the Savage Frontier
- Treasures of the Savage Frontier
BR Series
- Countdown to doomsday
- Matrix Cube
Others
- Unlimited Adventures
you should be able to get most of them from
http://www.the-underdogs.org/
just watch out for all the popups.
If you don't like abandonware, try looking on ebay, there was a
collectors edition with all 9 games (FR, DL, SF) on a CD.
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