You must return to your origin point in Fel City within 21 days to voluntarily end the game and receive your final score from 0 to 6,000 points, organized on a scale from 'Terrible' to 'Grand Master.' 'Winning' the game is about returning with the titular Dragon's Eye as one of the treasures, but you can theoretically achieve a high score without it. Its basic mechanic-visiting discrete areas, searching for items and encounters-would reappear in Wizard Wars in 1987.Įach treasure acquired and each combat won contributes to the player's overall points.

The player starts in Fel City and moves from area to area seeking randomly-distributed treasures and fighting monsters. The game takes place on a single map of 40 areas, separated into seven regions: Fel City, Dark Forest, Lofty Mountains, East Plain, Deep Chasm, Ley Land, and West Plain. Nonetheless, it's worth preserving their memories for some of the innovations they offered, few of which made it into the CRPG mainstream. I've played a bunch of them since downloading my first non-DOS emulator about a year ago, and while I've held some to a certain level of fondness (e.g., Wilderness Campaign, Dragon Fire), it's not much of a secret why most of them are are ill-remembered today. The Dragon's Eye is one of a group of proto-RPGs made for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore PET, and other platforms in the early 1980s.

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