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The Forgotten Realms Archives
''The Forgotten Realms Archives'' is a compilation of the ''AD&D'' ''Forgotten Realms'' series from the beginning of the series in 1988 through 1994, including 12 complete games. It was released in April 1997, and re-released a year later as a ''Silver Edition'', which included an interactive demo for 1998's ''Baldur's Gate'', and republished in 2001 as part of the Gamefest Interplay collector's series, ''Gamefest: Forgotten Realms Classics''. Game list * ''Gold Box'' series: *# ''Pool of Radiance'' *# ''Curse of the Azure Bonds'' *# '' Secret of the Silver Blades'' *# '' Pools of Darkness'' *# ''Gateway to the Savage Frontier'' *# '' Treasures of the Savage Frontier'' * The ''Eye of the Beholder'' series: *# '' Eye of the Beholder'' *# '' Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon'' *# '' Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor'' * And also: *# ''Hillsfar'' *# '' Dungeon Hack'' *# ''Menzoberranzan'' *# A demo version of '' Blood & Magic'', including the source code. ...
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Strategic Simulations
Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) was a video game developer and publisher of over 100 games from its founding in 1979 to its dissolution in 1994 (though the brand was in use until around 2002). The company focused on computer wargames then later added role-playing video games. SSI published the '' Panzer General'' series and the official video game adaptations of ''Dungeons & Dragons''. History The company was founded by Joel Billings, a wargame enthusiast, who in the summer of 1979 saw the possibility of using the new home computers such as the TRS-80 for wargames. While unsuccessfully approaching Avalon Hill and Automated Simulations to publish wargames, he hired programmers John Lyons, who wrote '' Computer Bismarck''—later claimed to have been the first "serious wargame" published for a microcomputer"Titans of the Computer Gaming World"''Computer Gaming World'', March 1988 p.36.—and Ed Williger, who wrote '' Computer Ambush''. Both games were written in BASIC as w ...
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Hillsfar
''Hillsfar'' is a role-playing video game for MS-DOS compatible operating systems, Amiga, Atari ST, and Commodore 64. It was developed by Westwood Associates and published by Strategic Simulations in 1989. It combines real-time action with randomly generated quests and includes elements of the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. A port to the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in 1993. ''Hillsfar'' received mixed reviews from critics. Gameplay Players start their game by creating a character. The game provides three choices: players may select a pre-made character, create their own, or import characters from previous Strategic Simulations Dungeons & Dragons computer games, such as ''Pool of Radiance'' and ''Curse of the Azure Bonds''. When creating a character, players may determine the character's race (dwarf, elf, human or gnome), Character class (Dungeons & Dragons), character class (cleric, fighter, magic-user or thief), and Alignment (Dungeons ...
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Single-player Video Games
A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the gameplay. Video games in general can feature several game modes, including single-player modes designed to be played by a single player in addition to multi-player modes. Most modern console games, PC games and arcade games are designed so that they can be played by a single player; although many of these games have modes that allow two or more players to play (not necessarily simultaneously), very few actually require more than one player for the game to be played. The '' Unreal Tournament'' series is one example of such. History The earliest video games, such as '' Tennis for Two'' (1958), '' Spacewar!'' (1962), and '' Pong'' (1972), were symmetrical games designed to be played by two players. Single-player games gained popularity only after this, with early titles such as '' Speed Race'' (1974) and '' Space Invaders'' (1978). The reason for this, according to Raph Ko ...
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Role-playing Video Games
Role-playing video games, also known as CRPG (computer/console role-playing games), comprise a broad video game genre generally defined by a detailed story and character advancement (often through increasing characters' levels or other skills). Role-playing games almost always feature combat as a defining feature and traditionally used Turn-based role-playing game, turn-based combat; however, modern role-playing games commonly feature real-time Action role-playing game, action combat or even non-violent forms of conflict resolution (with some eschewing combat altogether). Further, many games have incorporated role-playing elements such as character advancement and quests while remaining within other genres. Role-playing video games have their origins in tabletop role-playing games and use much of the same :Role-playing game terminology, terminology, Campaign setting, settings, and Game mechanics, game mechanics. Other major similarities with pen-and-paper games include develope ...
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Interplay Entertainment Games
Interplay may refer to: Music * ''Interplay'' (Bill Evans album), 1962 * ''Interplay'' (Al Haig album), 1976 * ''Interplay'' (Ride album), 2024 * '' Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors'', an album by John Coltrane, 1957 * ''Interplay'', an album by John Stein, 2004 * ''Interplay'', an album by Larry Santos, 1980 * Interplay Records, an American jazz label Theater * ''Interplay'' (ballet), by Jerome Robbins, 1945 * Interplay Europe, a festival for young playwrights in Europe * World Interplay, an Australian young playwrights festival Gaming * ''Interplay'' (magazine), a 1980s gaming magazine * Interplay Entertainment Interplay Entertainment Corp. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Los Angeles. The company was founded in 1983 as Interplay Productions by developers Brian Fargo, Jay Patel, Troy Worrell, and Rebecca Heineman, as well a ...
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Forgotten Realms Video Games
Forgotten or The Forgotten may refer to: Places and fictional locations * Forgotten River, New Zealand * Forgotten Hills, Victoria Land, Antarctica People and fictional characters * Bolesław the Forgotten (before 1016–1038 or 1039), a semi-legendary Duke of Poland Film * Forgotten (1933 film), ''Forgotten'' (1933 film), an American film directed by Richard Thorpe * The Forgotten (1973 film), ''The Forgotten'' (1973 film), a psychological horror film * ''The Forgotten'', a 1989 television action film directed by James Keach * The Forgotten (2003 film), ''The Forgotten'' (2003 film), a Korean War film * The Forgotten (2004 film), ''The Forgotten'' (2004 film), a psychological thriller * Forgotten (2012 film), ''Forgotten'' (2012 film), a Taiwanese/Chinese television film * Forgotten (2013 film), ''Forgotten'' (2013 film), a Bolivian film * The Forgotten (2014 film), ''The Forgotten'' (2014 film), a British horror film * Forgotten (2017 film), ''Forgotten'' (2017 film), a Sout ...
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DOS Games
The index of MS-DOS MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few op ... compatible video games is split into multiple pages because of its size. To navigate by individual letter use the table of contents below. This list contains games. Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:DOS games Indexes of video game topics Lists of PC games ...
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1997 Video Games
1997 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as ''Final Fantasy VII'', ''Castlevania: Symphony of the Night'', ''GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game), GoldenEye 007'', ''Star Fox 64'', ''Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back'', ''Quake II'', ''Mega Man Legends (video game), Mega Man Legends'', ''Riven'', ''Tomb Raider II'', ''Dark Rift'', ''Tekken 3'' and ''Virtua Striker 2'', along with new games such as ''Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee'', ''Gran Turismo (1997 video game), Gran Turismo'', ''Diablo (video game), Diablo'', ''Grand Theft Auto (video game), Grand Theft Auto'', ''Fallout (video game), Fallout'', and ''Postal (video game), Postal''. Sony's PlayStation (console), PlayStation was the year's best-selling video game console worldwide for the second year in a row, while also being the annual best-selling console in Japan for the first time (overtaking the Game Boy and Sega Saturn). The year's best-selling home video game worldwide was Squaresoft's ''Final Fantasy VII'' f ...
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GitHub
GitHub () is a Proprietary software, proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and GitHub itself provides access control, bug tracking system, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project. Headquartered in California, GitHub, Inc. has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018. It is commonly used to host open source software development projects. GitHub reported having over 100 million developers and more than 420 million Repository (version control), repositories, including at least 28 million public repositories. It is the world's largest source code host Over five billion developer contributions were made to more than 500 million open source projects in 2024. About Founding The development of the GitHub platform began on October 19, 2005. The site was launched in April 2008 by Tom ...
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Source Code
In computing, source code, or simply code or source, is a plain text computer program written in a programming language. A programmer writes the human readable source code to control the behavior of a computer. Since a computer, at base, only understands machine code, source code must be Translator (computing), translated before a computer can Execution (computing), execute it. The translation process can be implemented three ways. Source code can be converted into machine code by a compiler or an assembler (computing), assembler. The resulting executable is machine code ready for the computer. Alternatively, source code can be executed without conversion via an interpreter (computing), interpreter. An interpreter loads the source code into memory. It simultaneously translates and executes each statement (computer science), statement. A method that combines compilation and interpretation is to first produce bytecode. Bytecode is an intermediate representation of source code tha ...
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Blood & Magic
''Blood & Magic'' is a real-time strategy video game released by Interplay Productions in 1996 which uses the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' license. ''Blood & Magic'' is a real-time strategy game that takes place in a previously unknown area of the Forgotten Realms, and was the first computer game from Interplay based on the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' roleplaying system by TSR. Gameplay ''Blood & Magic'' is a real-time strategy game, where the player characters are wizards that are able to create monsters with the use of blood magic. The game is set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting in an area called the Utter East. Warfare is enhanced by the ancient magical Blood Forges that can create huge armies, as well as create Basal Golems whose mystical energy can power the forge, or they can be used to explore and fight or be transformed into a more powerful unit. The game includes five campaigns consisting of three missions each, or players have the option to run through a ran ...
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