The Elder Scrolls, Arena Official Trailer (1994, Bethesda)

Arena started, as the name might suggest, as a medieval-style gladiator game. You had a team of fighters and went around the world fighting other teams in each city's arena until you became grand champion in the Imperial City.
The world used for Arena was Tamriel, the fantasy world created by a few members of the staff for use in their weekly D&D campaign. During development of Arena, more and more RPG elements were added -- what if you could walk around these cities? What if you could take your team into a dungeon? And soon it was clear what Arena needed to be -- a full-blown RPG.

Inspired by such games as Ultima Underworld and the unheralded Legends of Valour, Arena was now seen as a massive first-person RPG -- the game that recreated the pen-and-paper RPG experience -- be who you want and do what you want. For a long time Arena was a party-based game, where you lead a group of adventurers. This style of play proved less fun in first person, so Arena became a single character game.

Arena was to be the first chapter in an ongoing series of games, so the series took its name from Tamriel's mystical tomes of knowledge that told of its past, present, and future -- The Elder Scrolls.

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[117Dios]

@xDutchZomBieHD dude, it's almost 20 years ago...

[xDutchZomBieHD]

So this is waht a trailer looked like 10 years ago?

[96aromaz]

@117Dios 18 to be exact

[soldaatjhu]

@Mechabradzilla U troll maybe?? xD

[SOMERANDOMGUYDOZ]

DAMM U BETHESDA! Y U NO REMAKE THIS ON SKYRIM'S ENGINE?!!?!?!??!

[jefthereaper]

@Sporevideomaker i think they are more red then black anyway XD no seriously

[Mechabradzilla]

Still better graphics than Skyrim, better physics than Half Life 2, and better music then Halo. XD

[Axenth]

wow the only elder scrolls in wich you could play in all of tamriel: Skyrim morrowind and all the others

[Sporevideomaker]

@dwinfortehwin Because that's not in the lore. I know most people refer to Redguards as "the black race" but their lore is very fleshed out to where they are no longer just black people.

[dwinfortehwin]

Why didn't they put an Asian race in this? :(

[dwinfortehwin]

@rashdan1994 stfu about runescape, it's gay.

[SuperBananist]

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