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Lands Of Lore Series
''Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos'' is a 1993 role-playing video game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Games for MS-DOS, the NEC PC-9801, and FM Towns. It is the first installment of the ''Lands of Lore'' series. The player travels around various environments, collecting items and battling monsters in an attempt to save the kingdom from a witch named Scotia, who has acquired shape-shifting abilities. Westwood wanted to create something new after being acquired by Virgin, and it was intended that the game outperform '' Eye of The Beholder II''. ''Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos'' received generally positive reviews, with reviewers complimenting the graphics and the skill system, but some criticized its combat and repetitiveness. In 1994, the game was re-released on CD, adding voice-overs, including some by Patrick Stewart. ''Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos'' was followed by a sequel, '' Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny'', in 1997. Gameplay The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westwood Studios
Westwood Studios, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in 1985 as Brelous Software, but got changed after 2 months into Westwood Associates and was renamed to Westwood Studios when Virgin Interactive, Virgin Games (later Virgin Interactive Entertainment) bought the company in 1992. The company was bought by Electronic Arts alongside Virgin Interactive's North American operations in 1998. In January 2003, it was announced that Westwood, alongside Westwood Pacific (EA Pacific), would be merged into EA Los Angeles. The main studio location closed in March of that year. Westwood is best known for developing video games in the real-time strategy, Adventure game, adventure and Role-playing video game, role-playing genres. It was listed in ''Guinness World Records'' for selling 30 million copies of ''Command & Conquer'' games worldwide. History Early history and company name Brett Sperry and Louis Castl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic (gaming)
Magic or mana is an attribute assigned to characters within a role-playing or video game that indicates their power to use special magical abilities or "spells". Magic is usually measured in magic points or mana points, shortened as MP. Different abilities will use up different amounts of MP."The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic" June 17, 2014, Alex Golub, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. When the MP of a character reaches zero, the character will not be able to use special abilities until some of their MP is recovered. Much like [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Adventure
''Just Adventure'' is a computer game website dedicated to the genre of adventure games. Founded in 1997, it publishes reviews and previews of adventure games, as well as opinion articles and interviews with game designers. The site was founded by Francis "Randy" Sluganski, who died on November 6, 2012, from cancer. Ragnar Tornquist, the creator of the adventure games ''The Longest Journey'' and '' Dreamfall: The Longest Journey'' has stated that the reviews on ''Just Adventure'' are "very important to im. In 2000, ''PC Gamer US'' columnist Michael Wolf called ''Just Adventure'' "the best site on the Web for the adventure game fan". In 2003, Mark H. Walker noted that ''Just Adventure'' was "the Internet's largest gaming site devoted to adventure games". Similarly, Anastasia Salter wrote in 2014 that ''Just Adventure'' was "one of the major adventure game fan sites on the web". The site has not been updated since August 2019 See also *Adventure Gamers ''Adventure Gamers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CD-ROM Today
''CD-ROM Today'' was an American magazine targeted at computer users. Published from 1993 to 1996 by Imagine Publishing (now Future US), the magazine was initially issued once every other month, before becoming a monthly. Each issue included software and hardware reviews, as well as a CD containing fonts, video and text files, system updaters, freeware and shareware and demo versions of commercial software. Products were included for both Macintosh and Windows PC. ''CD-ROM Today'' was the highest-selling review magazine for both Macintosh and PC users in 1996. In 1996, after four seasonal and 25 numbered issues, the magazine was discontinued, with two newer publications replacing it: ''MacAddict'' for Macintosh users, and ''boot'' for Windows users. Both magazines were first issued in August 1996 and have since been renamed ''MacLife'' and ''Maximum PC'', respectively. References External links Archived CD-Rom Today magazineson the Internet Archive The Internet Arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PC Zone
''PC Zone'', founded in 1993, was the first magazine dedicated to games for IBM-compatible personal computers to be published in the United Kingdom. Earlier PC magazines such as '' PC Leisure'', '' PC Format'' and '' PC Plus'' had covered games but only as part of a wider remit. The precursor to ''PC Zone'' was the award-winning multiformat title ''Zero''. The magazine was published by Dennis Publishing Ltd. until 2004, when it was acquired by Future plc along with ''Computer And Video Games'' for £2.5m. In July 2010, it was announced by Future plc that ''PC Zone'' was to close. The last issue of ''PC Zone'' went on sale 2 September 2010. First issue ''PC Zone'' was first published by Dennis Publishing in April 1993 and cost £3.95. Billed as the first UK magazine dedicated exclusively to PC games, it was sold with two accompanying floppy disks carrying game demonstrations. The first editor was Paul Lakin. The magazine was split into four sections: Reviews, Blueprints, Featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PC Gamer
''PC Gamer'' is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc. The magazine has several regional editions, with the UK and US editions becoming the best selling PC games magazines in their respective countries. The magazine features news on developments in the video game industry, previews of new games, and reviews of the latest popular PC games, along with other features relating to hardware, mods, "classic" games and various other topics. ''PC Gamer'' and parent Future began digital ''PC Gaming Show'' at E3 2015. Review system ''PC Gamer'' reviews are written by the magazine's editors and freelance writers, and rate games on a percent scale. In August 2023, '' Baldur's Gate 3'' became the first game to receive a rating of 97% in the UK edition. Prior to this, no game was awarded more than 96% by the UK edition (''Kerbal Space Program'', '' Civilization II'', ''Half-Life'', '' Half-Life 2'', ''Minecraf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyper (magazine)
''Hyper'' was a multi-platform Australian video game magazine. It was Australia's longest running gaming magazine, published from 1993 to 2019. In addition to coverage of current major video game systems and game releases (console and handheld), ''Hyper'' also covered arcade machines and classic games, as well as anime and DVD movies (once they became popular in Australia in '94 and '99 respectively) and also featured interviews with industry professionals and articles on game-related content such as game classifications (talking about G to X18+ about to be implemented in Issue #2), computer hardware and video game music. ''Hyper'' also had a sister magazine, the completely PC gaming focused '' PC PowerPlay''. History ''Hyper'' was launched in 1993 by Next Media with Stuart Clarke as editor. Clarke had previously edited '' MegaZone''; a then multi-platform magazine published by Sega Ozisoft, before it was taken over by Mason Stewart Publishing in September 1993 and started c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EMAP
Ascential (formerly EMAP) was a British-headquartered global company, specialising in events, intelligence and advisory services for the marketing and financial technology industries. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Informa in October 2024. History Richard Winfrey purchased the ''Spalding Guardian'' in 1887 and later purchased the '' Lynn News'' and the '' Peterborough Advertiser''; he also started the ''North Cambs Echo''. He became a Liberal politician and campaigner for agricultural rights and the papers were used to promote his political views in and around Spalding, Boston, Sleaford and Peterborough. During World War II Winfrey's newspaper interests began to be passed over to his son, Richard Pattinson Winfrey (1902–1985). In 1947, under the direction of 'Pat' Winfrey, the family's newspaper titles were consolidated to form the East Midland Allied Press (EMAP): this was achieved by the merger of the Northamptonshire Printing an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM (, compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains computer data storage, data computers can read, but not write or erase. Some CDs, called enhanced CDs, hold both computer data and audio with the latter capable of being played on a CD player, while data (such as software or digital video) is only usable on a computer (such as ISO 9660 format PC CD-ROMs). During the 1990s and early 2000s, CD-ROMs were popularly used to distribute software and data for computers and fifth generation video game consoles. DVDs as well as downloading started to replace CD-ROMs in these roles starting in the early 2000s, and the use of CD-ROMs for commercial software is now rare. History The earliest theoretical work on optical disc storage was done by independent researchers in the United States including David Paul Gregg (1958) and James Russell (inventor), James Russel (1965–1975). In particular, Gregg's paten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiga
Amiga is a family of personal computers produced by Commodore International, Commodore from 1985 until the company's bankruptcy in 1994, with production by others afterward. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16-bit or 16/32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphics and audio compared to previous 8-bit systems. These include the Atari ST as well as the Macintosh 128K, Macintosh and Acorn Archimedes. The Amiga differs from its contemporaries through custom hardware to accelerate graphics and sound, including sprite (computer graphics), sprites, a blitter, and four channels of sample-based audio. It runs a pre-emptive multitasking operating system called AmigaOS, with a desktop environment called Workbench (AmigaOS), Workbench. The Amiga 1000, based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, was released in July 1985. Production problems kept it from becoming widely available until early 1986. While ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziff Davis
Ziff Davis, Inc. is an American digital media and internet company. Founded in 1927 by William Bernard Ziff Sr. and Bernard George Davis, the company primarily owns technology- and health-oriented media websites, online shopping-related services, internet connectivity services, gaming and entertainment brands, and cybersecurity and martech (marketing technology) tools. Previously, the company was predominantly a publisher of hobbyist magazines. History The company was founded by William B. Ziff Company publisher Bill Ziff Sr. with Bernard Davis. Upon Bill Ziff's death in 1953, William B. Ziff Jr., his son, returned from Germany to lead the company. In 1958, Bernard Davis sold Ziff Jr. his share of Ziff Davis to found Davis Publications, Inc.; Ziff Davis continued to use the Davis surname as Ziff-Davis. Throughout most of Ziff Davis' history, it was a publisher of hobbyist magazines, often ones devoted to expensive, advertiser-rich technical hobbies such as cars, photograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stygian Abyss
''Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss'' is a 1992 action role-playing game developed by Blue Sky Productions (later Looking Glass Studios) and published by Origin Systems. Set in the fantasy world of the Ultima (series), ''Ultima'' series the story takes place inside the Great Stygian Abyss: a large cave system that contains the remnants of a failed utopian civilization. The player assumes the role of the Avatar (Ultima), Avatar—the ''Ultima'' series's protagonist—and attempts to find and rescue a baron's kidnapped daughter. ''Ultima Underworld'' has been cited as the first Role-playing video game, role-playing game to feature first-person (video games), first-person action in a 3D environment, and it introduced technological innovations such as allowing the player to look up and down. Its design combines Immersive_sim, simulation elements with concepts from earlier role-playing video games, including ''Wizardry (video game series), Wizardry'' and ''Dungeon Master (video gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
