The Bard's Quest: Dungeons of the Unknown

a.k.a. The Bards Quest I: The Legend of Isil Thania / The Bard's Quest II: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain / The Bard's Quest III: Dungeons of Darkness

published by VisionSoft in 1994-02, running on MS-DOS

type: role-play, turn-based
genre: Fantasy
perspective: 1st person other fixed camera
player options: single player

languages: eng

Technical specs

hardware: 386DX CPU, Color Graphics Adapter, Enhanced Graphics Adapter, Video Graphics Array, Keyboard, Mouse, AdLib SPU, Disney Sound Source, PC speaker SPU, Roland Sound Canvas SPU, Sound Blaster SPU, Sound Blaster Pro SPU,

display: raster

Editor note

The Bards Quest I: The Legend of Isil Thania was a freely redistributable demo "shareware", that advertised parts 2 and 3 (registered/full versions). However, Legend of Isil Thania was nearly identical to The Star Light Festival which was the sample game that was included with The Bard's Tale Construction Set. This might have been a violation of the licensing agreement for the Construction Set (Interplay did nothing against the game regardless). Many fan complained of plagiarism.

The Bard's Quest II: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (registered episode available individually)

The Bard's Quest III: Dungeons of Darkness (registered episode available individually)