J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Vol. I

created and published by Interplay in 1990, running on MS-DOS

type: role-play
genre: Fantasy
series: The Lord of the Rings
setting: Uchronia, Arda
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player

languages: eng

4.1/5

Technical specs

software: DOS 2.x, DOS 4.x,

hardware: Color Graphics Adapter, Enhanced Graphics Adapter, Multicolor Graphics Adapter, Tandy Graphics Adapter, Video Graphics Array, Keyboard, Mouse, AdLib SPU, Covox Sound Master, Creative Game Blaster sound card, Innovation Sound Standard, Roland MT-32 SPU, PC speaker SPU, Sound Blaster SPU,

display: raster

Editor note

Interplay also released an enhanced CD-version of this game in 1993. The CD-version features several scenes of the cartoon-movie and a cd-soundtrack.

Originally intended to be a Commodore 64 game, it was retooled for DOS and then Amiga.

zerothis # 2014-04-30 09:22:47

Tags (32)

culture

historical

other

hardware

software

creatures

locations

fiction genre

External reviews (8) - average: 82.9% - median: 86%

review source		issue	date	score
Aktueller Software Markt (ASM) (9+)	de	50	1991-03	10/12	83%	view
Génération 4 (001-082)	fr	30	1991-02	94/100	94%	view
Génération 4 (001-082)	fr	58	1993-09	90/100	90%
Joystick	fr	13	1991-02	96/100	96%	view
Joystick	fr	42	1993-10	82/100	82%
Power Play	de	36	1991-03	46/100	46%	view
The Games Machine Italy	it	29	1991-03	87/100	87%	view
Tilt 39-113	fr	88	1991-03	17/20	85%	view