Computer games set in fantasy worlds have always played a central role in gaming history, evolving across different genres and platforms.
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Computer games set in fantasy worlds have always played a central role in gaming history, evolving across different genres and platforms.
J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth (or just War in Middle Earth) is a strategy/wargame created by Synergistic Software. As you can imagine, it's set in the Lord of the Rings universe.
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King's Quest I VGA was created by AGD Interactive, as a remake of the graphics adventure King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown. The original game was designed by Roberta Williams and released by Sierra in 1984.
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Legends of Valour is a 3D RPG created by Synthetic Dimensions and released in 1992 for MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST. The game's main feature is the engine, which is entirely 3D. This technology was not new but wasn't used in RPGs yet.
Year: 1993 Genre: Role Playing
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Zork is one of the earliest interactive fiction/text-adventure and the most popular computer games ever created. ​Released in 1977 for the PDP-10 mainframe, Zork is a seminal tex...
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Gauntlet II is the sequel to the popular hack and slash fantasy arcade created by Atari Games. Released in 1986, one year after the original game, Gauntlet II was ported to the Ami...
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Darkmere (or Darkmere: The Nightmare’s Begun) is a fantasy RPG-action-adventure game developed by Zero Hour Software. It was published by Core Design in 1994 for the Amiga. There...
Year: 1994 Genre: Role Playing
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Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress is the second role-playing game in the Ultima series. Released in 1982, it is the only Ultima game published by Sierra On-Line. After th...
Year: 1983 Genre: Role Playing
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Lost Eden is a fantasy adventure set on a planet populated with dinosaurs. It was created by Cryo Interactive and published by Virgin Interactive in 1995 for DOS, Macintosh, 3DO, and CD-i.
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Darklands is a historical fantasy role-playing game developed and published by MicroProse in 1992 for MS-DOS. The game is set in medieval Germany during the 15th century, featuring...
Year: 1992 Genre: Role Playing
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The Misadventures of Flink (or simply Flink) is a jump-and-run game created by Psygnosis and published in 1994. It was released for the Amiga CD32, Sega Mega Drive, and SEGA CD. Th...
Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer
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Shadow of the Beast III is the third chapter of the fantasy platformer created by Reflections and published by Psygnosis. While the first and second episodes, thanks to the franchi...
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Betrayal at Krondor is an adventure RPG game developed and published by Dynamix in 1993 for DOS. It was later ported to Windows in 2010. Betrayal at Krondor is inspired by and based on the Riftwar novels written by Raymond E.
Year: 1993 Genre: Role Playing
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Albion is a science fiction RPG that was developed and published by Blue Byte in 1995 for DOS. Interestingly, the team that created the games Amberstar and Ambermoon created this game in a move from Thalion to Blue Byte.
Year: 1995 Genre: Role Playing
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King's Quest III: To Heir is Human is the third chapter of the popular graphic adventure series written and designed by Roberta Williams. Like the other games, it was published by Sierra On-Line.
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