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Bard's Tale, The

Also known as The Bard's Tale: Tales of the Unknown
Developer
Interplay
Publisher
FCI
Year
1991
Genre
Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Modes
Single player

About this game

The Bard's Tale is a fantasy role-playing video game franchise created by Michael Cranford and developed by Brian Fargo's Interplay Productions (1985–1992) and inXile Entertainment (2004–present). The initial title of the series was Tales of the Unknown. The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight dropped the Tales of the Unknown series title, as did all ports of the original game after 1988. From then on, the series was known as The Bard's Tale series. Both Cranford and Fargo have refuted the assertion that the original projected titles for the second and third installments were The Archmage's Tale and The Thief's Tale.

The NES version, while ported by the same team, was released on a card with half the ROM size, with a lot of the content from the original versions, including the Famicom port, being cut.

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