The designers of the Bard's Tale series, Wasteland, and Battle Chess pooled their talents to create the ultimate role-playing fantasy. They knew it had to be a first-rate story with sophisticated graphics. The result was Dragon Wars.

Tags: Fantasy, Turn-based combat  

Platforms: Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, NES, PC-98, Sharp X68000  

Year: 1989

Stonekeep is a dungeon-crawling role-playing game with real-time combat. The entire game is spent underground.

Tags: Fantasy, Real-time combat  

Platforms: MS-DOS, Windows  

Year: 1995

Swords and Serpents is a fantasy role-playing video game developed by Interplay Productions for the Nintendo Entertainment System. In this game, the player controls a party of four adventurers on a dungeon-crawling quest to destroy a terrible serpent. Along the way, the party encounters an onslaught of fantasy monsters and collects gold and treasure while gaining experience points needed to raise their individual attributes. Swords and Serpents focuses mainly on gameplay and contains very little plot development.

Tags: Fantasy, Turn-based combat  

Platforms: NES  

Year: 1990

The Bard's Tale is a fantasy role-playing game similar to Wizardry games, with first-person exploration of pseudo-3D maze-like environments, and turn-based combat against randomly appearing enemies.

Tags: Fantasy, Turn-based combat  

Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Macintosh, MS-DOS, NES, PC-98, ZX Spectrum  

Year: 1985

The Destiny Knight is the second installment in the Bard's Tale series, and a sequel to Tales of the Unknown. Like its predecessor, it is a fantasy role-playing game with first-person exploration of a pseudo-3D world and turn-based battles against randomly appearing enemies.

Tags: Fantasy, Turn-based combat  

Platforms: Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, NES, PC-98  

Year: 1986

Thief of Fate is the third installment in the Bard's Tale series, and a sequel to The Destiny Knight. It is similar to its predecessors, being a first-person fantasy role-playing game in which the player explores maze-like pseudo-3D towns, dungeons, and wilderness areas.

Tags: Fantasy, Turn-based combat  

Platforms: Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, PC-98  

Year: 1988