Eye of the Beholder: Xanathar (the Big DOS Battles Tour)

Let's explore some of the Forgotten Realms' fauna. These adventurers went through lethal perils to examine a member of a very rare species named "beholders". A male portrayed here. Its diet consists primarily of flesh and bones, preferably human. A life in shady caves, tombs and wine cellars of desecrated cathedrals made it color-blind, which explains the pink wallpaper. Reproduces by thinking about it. Females considered extinct, because the males display extremely violent behavior. Most of them are harmless to humans and most dwarves though. But beware while approaching it - it can speak!! It has some other minor human-like properties like swift movement, a good dexterity, a taste for chocolate and hurling of death spells and fireballs. Its hand-eye coordination is bad, however.

Reading the dialogue and commentary makes me feel really nostalgic. "Huh, you made it through all my traps? Well, I only put them there to prevent just any loser to come challenge me here. Of course you're dying here now. I happen to wish to rule the world, y'know... Or maybe you'd like to join me (for dinner) instead? How about that?" - "We'll never! Die!" - "Your problem. Here I come! Oh, sure, I'll wait. Ready now? OK, now you're gonna get it..." Ah, those were the magical days of sword and sorcery and square paper...

Yes, the entire game ends by this ... quarrel. I didn't particularly love this part of EOB, but it's a sqaure-based RPG, which counts, plus it allowed for EOB2 to be made. So next on the tour: Eye of the Beholder 2.

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• dosbox
• dos
• abandonware
• boss
• eob
• eye
• beholder
• forgotten
• realms
• advanced
• dungeons
• dragons
• dnd
• adnd

[ForBeautifulLenka]

The graphics and music were just AWESOME (as was everything else...).

[xanathaar]

I took my nick from him! Good memories ;)

[Metaridley17]

I thought that Xanathar was a mirror!

[farmerbrown140]

u can get the pc version of this somewhere on the internet just look on google and ull eventualy find it..or u can get an amiga emulater and play it 2

[TheHelldragon]

Eh, I pushed this guy in the pit. I mean, I had a wand, there was a convienent spike pit, why shouldn't I use it? I prefered it that way since I'm not so good in first-person games.

[Necrosaro]

LOL i just kept opening his door, throwing a dagger or 2 through, then closing the door before he could come through.

Neat that theres so many ways to win.

[kereminde]

Nice to see you doing the "man's way" of fighting him. Considering you get some REALLY powerful weapons for your fighters ("Serverious" anyone?) why not?

Though I did get the "You've completed all 12 special quests!" for pushing him around like a ball.

[Hakenkreuz88]

It wasn't supposed to end without an animation, and the Amiga version retained the (for space-saving reasons) deleted ending. You can find it on YouTube too.

[boilerplate]

The first time I played this (I was 17 at the time, so keep this in mind) I tried to kill him in combat. God, I spent about 3 weeks trying to do it until I finally realized you had to trick him into falling into his own spike trap on the other end of the dungeon. Now, I see you CAN kill him, which makes me feel inadequate.

Lost my saves to this on an old PC and I can't retrieve them. Also lost a couple good Daggerfall characters on it too. *sigh*