Adventure / Adventure - RPG (3-D) · 1988

Bard's Tale (The) - Tales of the Unknown

Published by Electronic Arts · Developed by Interplay Productions

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Information

Genre: Adventure - RPG (3-D)
Language: [unknown]
Controls: Mouse
Players: 1
Resolution: Low
Programmer(s): Quarles, Michael
Graphic Artist(s): Camasta, Todd J.
Game design: Cranford, Michael
Musician(s): Warhol, David
Sound FX: [unknown]
Dump: Missing dump(s)
Year: 1988
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Distributor: -
Developer: Interplay Productions
Licensed from: -
Software: English
Box/Instructions: English
License: Commercial
ST Type: ST, STe, 0.5MB

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 7.9/10 · Votes: 347 · Downloads: 0 · Hits: 5,947

Screenshots (6)

Bard's Tale (The) - Tales of the Unknown — screenshot 1

Bard's Tale (The) - Tales of the Unknown — screenshot 2

Bard's Tale (The) - Tales of the Unknown — screenshot 3

Bard's Tale (The) - Tales of the Unknown — screenshot 4

Bard's Tale (The) - Tales of the Unknown — screenshot 5

Bard's Tale (The) - Tales of the Unknown — screenshot 6

Cover Art (2)

Tips (4)

Animated graphics

Bard's Tale animated pictures at Kroah's Game Reverse Engineering Page

Trivia (3)

Hardware

This game has compatibility issues on TOS 1.4 and newer as certain pictures load as scrambled
images and the game reports disk errors, but it still runs somewhat playable.

Charts

Top UK charts position: 8 (10/1989)
Months on charts: 1, 10/1989)

Releases

First 8-bit releases reviewed in UK multiformat magazines for Commodore 64 (1/1987), Apple II (1/1987), ZX Spectrum (8/1988), Amstrad CPC (8/1988)
First 16-bit releases reviewed in UK Atari or multiformat magazines for Atari ST (1/1988)

Book / Magazine Reviews (4)

Génération 4 · Février, 1988 · Rating: 94%

The Games Machine · February, 1988 · Rating: 65%

Atari ST User · April, 1988 · Rating: 8/10

ST Action · August, 1992 · Rating: 86%