Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
4Did you play it back in the 80s (on an Apple ,only way to really play the original, not a MAC, an Apple)?
Did you spring for the new version?
I am sad because I finally tossed my maps and monster book on my last move, because how am I ever gonna play that again right, LOL.
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I had the original PC version. I think I still have the little black box? It’s probably in some attic nook somewhere.
Wizardry was actually very popular in Japan and made it across multiple video game consoles as some solid ports and collections.
@pakopako yep it did. I actually bought it the year it was released. At a computer show. And my memory of it was that it cost about $80 in the money of that year so it was really expensive especially for me I was a young single mom. But it was updated a little bit when it was brought to some of the consoles. My understanding about the new release is that it is the original Apple game with a rebuild over it. So none of the engines underneath it have been updated they are the same
I did on the Apple ][+ that I still have. I made it through the first three games but could not get interested in the one where you play the evil wizard breaking back out of the dungeon. I’m sure the box, play disks, and my maps are still in one of the many boxes of Apple ][ stuff.
Tiltowait! Only available on microshit winblows.
@duodec meet you on four. I couldn’t either but I loved one two and three
@Cerridwyn It isn’t in me to play a truly evil character, and I had sent a floppy back to Sir-Tech for recovery and did not want to run into one of my own characters and have to kill/defeat them.
My brother and I played it on a Mac 512k back in the day. We didn’t have, umm, an “original” copy … so we didn’t have the manual or anything. (nor even anyone we could talk to who had ever played it) Which left us confused for a while. Things really took off for us when we figured out how to level up.
A little over a decade ago I found the DOS version and played it (a little bit) in DOSBox. Actually, I think it may have been a later Wizardry (not episode 1)? In any case, it was not what I played as a kid, so the nostalgia was all wrong.
I’m disappointed that the new release is Windows-only. Seems like it should’ve been reasonably easy to make it fully cross-platform.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t know if non-Mac versions let you back up and restore characters, or migrate them from one save file to another.
At one point we cloned an entire party of a particular maxed-out character. He knew all priest and mage spells and had over 100 HP (I think). Speed-running through the maze was kinda fun with that party. Take 2 elevators, sling a few well-aimed spells (
malikto& `tiltowait) at the right places, and you’ve won the game again!@xobzoo give them time I guess. This has been in beta for a very long time. I’ve come really close to buying it more than once in pretty release
@xobzoo My characters migrated from WIzardry 1 to Knight of Diamonds (2), and earned the qualifier on their names after defeating it. As I recall Wizardry 3 allowed you to ‘migrate’ something less, like the ‘essence of the ancestors’ so your new characters were ‘affected’ by the achievements of their ancestors, but weren’t actually them. It also changed the graphics somewhat… “Window Wizardry”. At the time I preferred the earlier interface because it was faster.
@duodec @xobzoo I forgot about that migration. I remember it now that you mentioned it
Apparently the new version has the original Apple ][ engine and you can see them side by side or window in window
I am so so tempted
I played a tiny bit on the Apple ][, but it never hooked me the way Ultima did.
Still rocking it!
Wizardy was awesome!
POPSOCKETS! SPA KITS! POLLY POCKETS! AWESOME!