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Basilisks

Creatures theme

Large reptiles with three or more pairs of legs and occasional ability to kill or petrify creatures with their gaze or touch.

26
games
12
platforms
Pool of Radiance (Commodore 64)
Pool of Radiance
C64 1988
CrossFire (Linux)
CrossFire
LIN 2001-05-08
Pool of Radiance (Apple II E)
Pool of Radiance
IIE 1988-06
Heirs to Skull Crag (MS-DOS)
Heirs to Skull Crag
DOS 1993
Pool of Radiance (Amiga OCS)
Pool of Radiance
OCS 1990
Baldur's Gate (Macintosh OS Classic)
Baldur's Gate
MAC 2000
Baldur's Gate (Windows)
Baldur's Gate
WIN 1998-12-21
Pool of Radiance (MS-DOS)
Pool of Radiance
DOS 1988-12
Heirs to Skull Crag (Macintosh OS Classic)
Heirs to Skull Crag
MAC 1993-05
Legends of the Lost Realm (Macintosh OS Classic)
Legends of the Lost Realm
MAC 1988
Pool of Radiance (NEC PC9801)
Pool of Radiance
9801 1989-12-21
Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear (Windows)
Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear
WIN 2016-03-31
Related:
* Cockatrices
Most commonly they have three pairs of legs and petrifying gaze, the other cases seem to exist only by mention or some special variants/crossbreeds. The original basilisk from mythology is more in line with cockatrice.

D&D may be attributed for making the multi-legged reptile variant the de facto definition of basilisk.

In other popular culture, note that Harry Potter's basilisk is more in line with the image of wyrms except for the killing gaze, follows the "king of serpents" definition to the letter and likely favored this for other reasons than other popular depictions.

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Parent group

Legendary creatures

Games by year

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The first Basilisks video game was released in 1988.

SSI, Beamdog and Pony Canyon published most of these games.

Platforms

Linux 7
Windows 4
Mac OS Classic 4
MS-DOS 3
C64 1
Apple II E 1
Amiga 1
NEC PC9801 1
Mac OS X 1
BSD 1
NEC PC8801 1
Sharp X1 1

Most common companies

SSI7
Beamdog7
Pony Canyon3