Re: WTB: Wizardry 1

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

md (mdickins@brightok.net) wrote:
: Looking for an original in the box with all docs.  I know there was
: one on Ebay, I bid, I didn't get it, unfortunately.   I used to play
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--> One of the things I liked about Wizardry was how the manual
    quite vividly showed the difference between Armour of +1 and
    Armour of +10 (the guy with no arms vs. the tank!). We spent
    over a year playing Proving Grounds and enjoyed it immensely.

    Almost every weekend, we'd get together: 3 people controlling
    2 party members, each. One on keyboard, one mapping & one
    writing down info & keeping track of treasure/weapons/spell-
    levels, etc. It was a *lot* of fun. Few games since then (even
    though the graphics, complexity & system power has gone through
    several quantum changes) have held our interest or captured our
    imaginations as thoroughly as did the original Wizardry. Does
    that mean I pine away for the `old days'? No way. Though I'm
    not impressed with the proliferation of `shootem-ups' & mind-
    numbing `hack & slash' killkillkill blow-it-up games out there
    now; we still enjoy a good adventure/RPG game when it appears.
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