Bard's Tale I (Apple IIe version)

[refard5]

I prefer the bard's tale by inxile in 2005

[nerdycub]

With all the dungeon crawlers coming back it would be nice to see a new Bards tale that didn't suck balls.

[rat4cooler]

That acolyte in the thief temple looks a little too much like Jason Voorhees...

**raises a bloody machete** Who needs healing?

[Falagar517]

Where did you download this game. I remember playing this on my old Apple IIe back in the day and I long to relive those adventures.

[sokolkeep]

@Falagar517 There is a link to the Adventurer's Guild, and also a link to the Apple ][ emulator in the description of this video.

[r8qt7]

LOL - Apple sucked in the past and sucks now ...

[ubtng]

@r8qt7 : The furthest I've gone with modern consoles is the PS2 and Gamecube. Half of the games I own for those systems I've never even played. Yet I still go back to this game. Why? GAMEPLAY.

[johnnystevens1975]

i had all my boys up to 9999 and Brian the Fist was a HardMoFo! Mangar died quick.

[ThePuppetgirl12]

they had great role play for this machine ,

[p512622439]

wow, i can't believe i watched the whole thing. brought back a lot of memories, thx!

[surnamematt]

i just LOVE it when he slugs that pint at the start

[instantwolf]

Aww yeah!! The Bard's Tale series is a classic! New releases don't even come close. Wish people would make more games like these.

[Evilmonkey66699]

Sad to say the video game industry has become a clone of hollywood where netting the most profit as easily and with as little risk as possible often at the cost of orginality and creativity is job number 1. So unless there is a 60's/70's style revolution like hollywood had it's halo spin offs, dlc, and brain dead Fallout sequals for the forseble future, eh at least there's the Emulation scene and a few brillant modern games here and there.

[ZombieCobain]

Why didn't you put Joseph your monk in the first three? I seemed to remember I trained a monk to a high level, and he was my best fighter. No matter how high I let my thiefs and hunters advance, they never did me much good. Warriors, palladins, monks in the front. In the back put a bard and two mages.

[sokolkeep]

Yes. A monk trained to a high level will be the best of the fighter classes. At the time though Joseph was getting his arse kicked in the front lines so I moved him back until he trained a few more levels.

[mcwtroll]

Ah yes. Good strategy, making him an apprentice. Carry on.

[sojourner99]

I disagree. High enough your hunters crit chance pretty much approaches or equals 100%.

[CescoPisicoli]

Can someone PLZ upload a full walkthrough of 'The Bard's Tale - Tales of the Unknown' from the PC?

I always loved it when i was 10 yrs old when i was a kid and never got to play much at my friends house cause he hogged the computer all the time.

You would be a hero if u uploaded it! :D

[skippythumper123]

man, i played this years ago. was a great game for it's time.

[padistedor]

What a throw back, thanks for posting this!

[Borin81]

i have this game and a Apple II in my collection. i tihnk im gonna fire it up tomorrow.

[lungsofiron]

Oh the memories.

I think it's a testament to the human imagination that these graphics -- at least at the time -- could really make one's mind come alive.

Great game.

[t1mestereo]

Agreed.

1986 I bought this game and it was the first and last that I was truly addicted to. Ah, nostalgia...

[tnjeffofalltrades]

Holy Crap.....I loved this game. I remember hours and hours of "APARing" up to the 99/99/99/99 Berserkers in the castle to level up.

[bhutos]

Oh shit - me too!

[charlieRicketts]

OH MY GOSH! I LOVE THESE GAMES!

[mtown78]

I played the Apple IIgs version which had much better graphics. I hope someone posts that up. All these years and I haven't forgotten....

[sokolkeep]

I have an Apple IIGS video of Bard's Tale II. Put this into your youtube search box - Bard's Tale II - The Destiny Knight (Apple IIGS version) -The Dark Domain

[mtown78]

thanks!

[WorldWalker128]

I'll take the newer one for the PS2 any day.

I hated those games. Mainly because I kept getting lost without a map, and had/have no patience.

[cinqo7]

I agree. I remember spending most of my free time for a few months back in 1987 and 1988 playing this game for hours on my Commodore 64 and how frustrating it was without any maps. Well I was not as intelligent as other friends who memorize the Skare Brae town and the dungeons very easily and using grid notebooks...

[cali4nian]

I played that game in Apple IIe. I had to keep switch floppy disk to access next story..

[DerInquizitor]

Sweeeet...The guild used to be my home, a long looong time ago ;-) Gr8 game, Thanks for the vid !

[urbano83]

ooooh! thanks buddy!

[devilzmantis]

wow, so much memories, thanks.