Bill Lange Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 There is a good article on the "bronze" and "silver" age of computer role playing games on Gamasutra. http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20070223a/barton_01.shtml It discusses Rogue, Ultima, Wizardry, The Bards Tale, etc. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShosMeister Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 (edited) Sorry. Wrong thread Edited February 26, 2007 by ShosMeister Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 Here is part three of the article. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13480 Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyranthraxus Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Great article. Many interesting early titles mentioned in there. The link for part 2 is: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20070223b/barton_01.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Great article. Many interesting early titles mentioned in there. The link for part 2 is: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20070223b/barton_01.shtml Wonderful stuff, great reading. I highly recommend it to anyone who loves CRPGs, gamed in the 80's or both... I did note one small error on the authors part though. In part 2 he claims that in the Atari ST version of Dungeon Master, you can not control the movement keys with the keyboard. That is completely wrong. I tried to contact them from their website, but could not. That should really be corrected, IMHO. Thanks for the links to such great reading! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomasholzer Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 I read that before. I wonder why he ignored the console games: Adventure, Dragonstomper The Intellivision D&D games.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyranthraxus Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 (edited) At the end of part 2 he apologizes to anyone who thinks their favorite game should be there (and name drops Zelda). He says he could only cover games he's familar with. There is already nearly 30 pages on the subject of computer RPGs it could be twice as long detailing consoles! But he does make note of computer games that ended up being ported. Of course some might argue that the console RPGs are pretty lightweight fluff compared to the computer RPGs of the day. Adventure for example is pretty basic compared to Ultima 1 and doesn't have the stats aspect which is commonly associated with CRPGs. Regardless its a pretty impressive history and it seems he played many of the games in emulators in research. Perhaps the consoles will get their due in a seperate article. Edited April 18, 2007 by tyranthraxus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyranthraxus Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 I tried to contact them from their website, but could not. That should really be corrected, IMHO. You might have better luck at the author's blog: http://armchairarcade.com/neo/blog/4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 I tried to contact them from their website, but could not. That should really be corrected, IMHO. You might have better luck at the author's blog: http://armchairarcade.com/neo/blog/4 I did indeed have better luck there - thanks for the heads up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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