> 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]/
