Realms of Antiquity: The Shattered Crown
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Prepare yourself for a journey to a world of fantasy and adventure!
A land fallen into chaos needs stalwart heroes to save it from a sinister and powerful force of evil...
Enter a massive sprawling world of wild forests, frozen plains, misty mountains, scorched deserts, and endless oceans. Explore cities, towns and villages to rest and recover as well as buy equipment. Talk to sages, warriors, peasants and sovereigns to aid you in your quest. Sail the open seas or pilot boats up rivers. Descend into dark dungeons, castle ruins, and mysterious places to find treasure, fight evil, and locate powerful relics.
Do you have what it takes to save the Realms of Antiquity?
This is a retro computer role-playing game, written for the classic TI-99/4a home computer, released in 1981. It runs in full emulation on modern Windows systems as well as the original hardware.
Features:* 16-Color bitmap enhanced graphics * Nine character classes * Control up to four characters * 2d turn-based tactical combat * Huge multi-disk fantasy world * Over 250 unique powerful items 60 spells, seven schools of magic * Over 200 terrifying monsters NPC’s with complex dialogue
Source: official game website
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Music: 'Caverns of the Heart' |
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Average score: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 2 ratings with 1 reviews)
The Good
Classic 80s RPG goodness in the style of Ultima, etc, with a lot of modern comforts and improvements. A large world to explore with incredible variety, nicely and believably divided into digestible-sized areas to not feel overwhelming.
The Bad
There is no sequel planned.
The Bottom Line
A true labor of love on two levels: not only is it an amazingly complete ultima-esque 80s-style RPG that ticks all the nostalgia boxes, while also avoiding the negative aspects of 80s gaming with various UI improvements and conveniences, but also, the whole thing runs on a TI99! This makes it perhaps the only actually really good game ever made for the woefully mismanaged and short-lived TI99.
Definitely worth a look for any fan of 80s-style RPGs, and as far as I'm concerned it's right up there in the top ten.
TI-99/4A · by Anonymous · 2024
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Game added by Adam Haase.
Windows added by Sciere.
Game added May 12, 2021. Last modified February 13, 2023.