Re: [SWCollect] Trivia questions answers (spoiler if you still wanna try), BT was wrong
I'm with Howard on this one. From what I recall, the plan was actually to release a number of games in the "Tales" series, the first one being the Bard's Tale... this was to be followed by things like The Knight's Tale, The Wizard's Tale... hence why BT1 was actually Tales of the Unknown: Vol 1 - The Bard's Tale. I'm not sure at what point Interplay changed its mind. Of course, it could it's possible that the game was in fact originally titled Spectre Snare, but I've never heard anything to that effect either. Howard Feldman wrote: BT question "the original name of Bard's tale was Spector Snare. Mike Crawford did a virtuoso job with it back in the early days of Interplay, right after they were formed from Boone Software." So how about it folks, can anyone refute this or does this fellow know more than us? I'm guessing he does for sure on GS UI since he actually did the music for it ;) As far as I know (and I like to think of myself as somewhat of a BT expert..), the released game was always known as Tales of the Unknown Volume I: the Bard's Tale. However, the Spectre Snare was the name of the most powerful weapon in the game (worth 200,000 gold I think). See here for example: http://people.stdnet.com/jonathan/emu/bardstaleequip.htm In a dungeon you can find the message "On the wall is etched: The Spectre Snare can catch a foe and bind him lest his spirit go..." So it is conceivable that the game was originally named after the most powerful weapon in the game (after all, BT2 was named after the Destiny Wand, the most powerful weapon in that game), but I have seen no evidence that this was the case.
Re: [SWCollect] Trivia questions answers (spoiler if you still wanna try), BT was wrong
> BT question > > "the original name of Bard's tale was Spector Snare. > Mike Crawford did a virtuoso job with it back in the > early days of Interplay, right after they were formed > from Boone Software." > > So how about it folks, can anyone refute this or does this fellow know more than us? > I'm guessing he does for sure on GS UI since he > actually did the music for it ;) As far as I know (and I like to think of myself as somewhat of a BT expert..), the released game was always known as Tales of the Unknown Volume I: the Bard's Tale. However, the Spectre Snare was the name of the most powerful weapon in the game (worth 200,000 gold I think). See here for example: http://people.stdnet.com/jonathan/emu/bardstaleequip.htm In a dungeon you can find the message "On the wall is etched: The Spectre Snare can catch a foe and bind him lest his spirit go..." So it is conceivable that the game was originally named after the most powerful weapon in the game (after all, BT2 was named after the Destiny Wand, the most powerful weapon in that game), but I have seen no evidence that this was the case. -- -- Howard Feldman, Author of The Search for Freedom A Computer Fantasy Role-Playing Game Visit its Homepage at http://home.golden.net/~feldman/SearchForFreedom/ Visit the Computer and Book RPG Museum at http://vgmuseum.chaoticmonkey.com/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[SWCollect] Trivia questions answers (spoiler if you still wanna try), BT was wrong
Interesting!! GS question "The payment for the licensing was a case of a fairly hard to find British beer; I dont know the brand. " BT question "the original name of Bard's tale was Spector Snare. Mike Crawford did a virtuoso job with it back in the early days of Interplay, right after they were formed from Boone Software." So how about it folks, can anyone refute this or does this fellow know more than us? I'm guessing he does for sure on GS UI since he actually did the music for it ;) Tom Visit my web page for many games for sale/trade and screen shots of Ultima Escape from Mt. Drash, Tom's Ultima, Infocom and RPG page
