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	Enchanter (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Enchanter is a 1983 interactive fiction computer game written by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling and published by Infocom.
		It belongs to the fantasy genre and was the first fantasy game published by Infocom after the Zork trilogy (it was originally intended to be Zork IV).
		This was the first game of a trilogy, usually referred to as "The Enchanter Trilogy".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enchanter_(computer_game) (366 words)

	GameDev.net - Computer Adventures, The Secret Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In the `playfield' style arcade adventure games, or those which depend on the use of icons and mice and menus, the total number of locations in the game is often restricted, as is the richness of the game.
		Some graphic games, I feel, are rather spoiled by having all possible verbs on pull-down menus, leaving little or no scope for imagination on the part of the player, and there comes a point where real-time events are happening on the screen and the game is verging on an arcade-style game, or a wargame.
		Game writers should make sure that the caches of food and drink, however hard to find, are sufficient to sustain the player for a considerable proportion of the game once taken.
	www.gamedev.net /reference/articles/article246.asp (20862 words)

	Enchanter; Infocom: the Steven Spielberg of text adventuring.
		In Enchanter, you are a wizard third-class, chosen for a special mission specifically because of your amateur status.
		Enchanter is full of the delightful little touches we have come to expect from Infocom.
		But more important, Enchanter has a good sense of synergy: this is the ability of an overall narrative to become more than the sum of its parts--to totally envelope the user within it--and to build story involvement to the point at which disbelief is suspended.
	www.atarimagazines.com /creative/v10n3/153_Enchanter_Infocom_the_S.php (2130 words)

	Review: Enchanter
		Requirements: Apple Macintosh; Apple II-family computer with at least 32K RAM and a disk drive; Commodore 64 with a disk drive; or an Atari with at least 48K RAM and a disk drive.
		The adventure game wizards at Infocom have just unleashed a new challenge—Enchanter, which the package blurb claims "is in the Zork tradition." That's quite a tradition to live up to, because as practically all adventure-game addicts know, Infocom's best-selling Zork trilogy set new standards for adventure game sophistication.
		Saving a game in progress requires 13K, so some quick division tells you there is disk space for ten games.
	www.atarimagazines.com /compute/issue55/reviews_enchanter.php (1185 words)

	Enchanter - Review - Adventure Classic Gaming - ACG - Adventure Games, Interactive Fiction Games - Reviews, Previews, ...
		Enchanter is the first game of a new spin-off from the Zork series.
		Although some fans consider Enchanter simply to be the fourth installment of the Zork series, others argue that the games from the Enchanter trilogy (Enchanter, Sorcerer, Spellbreaker) should stand together as a separate epic.
		Enchanter contains a design flaw that is typical of the text adventures from the Zork series—there is no way to win without dying.
	www.adventureclassicgaming.com /index.php/site/reviews/77 (943 words)

	Zork Grand Inquisitor: PIB PC Game Review
		This game did seem to be easier to navigate then Zork Nemesis, but that may be that I was accustomed to the navigation system this time around.
		This game would be particularly suitable for relatively new or medium level adventure game players.
		The game does include a lot of death, and a few times you have a limited amount of time in which to solve one puzzle.
	www.pibweb.com /review/zorkgi.html (968 words)

	Enchanter by Mark Blank, 1983
		The game does, however, contain code which, if I could, I would rip out, nail to a cross and hang outside the official Rand McNally-established limits of Silicon Valley in order to generate the same effect that Vlad the Impaler had by nailing gypsies, caught bandits and suspected rogues to crosses outside his borders.
		Enchanter succeeds as a great story and proud part of the Zork milieu, but it's also a "snapshot" of the best work from a brilliant artist that is severely underappreciated.
		Hunger code or not, this game took up hours upon hours of my life when i was but a wee lad of 9.
	www.joltcountry.com /trottingkrips/enchanter.html (1484 words)

	PC Review: Asheron's Call - ComputerAndVideoGames.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Games like Planescape: Torment and Baldur's Gate are always labelled as RPGs but that's more to do with their AD&D heritage than any true role-playing element.
		To have any chance of doing that in a computer game, you have to be able to interact with other human-controlled characters.
		Access to the game is via the Microsoft Zone and at present there are six different servers running Asheron's Call, each with the same game world, but different player characters.
	www.computerandvideogames.com /reviews/reviews_story.php?id=2737 (1363 words)

	Night Watch \| Game Reviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		That's a mouthful of gaming gab that means you get a handful of characters and then fight your way through a story with a series of battles in which your folks alternate moves and attacks with the computer.
		In a gaming world glutted with threadbare real-time strategy remixes, Resident Evil rehashes and Doom clones, Night Watch is as fresh as a horny frat-boy and cooler than the flip side of your pillow.
		There are hundreds of role-playing games that cram tiny details, engaging spells and nifty attributes into their characters and combat and then whitewash it all with dumbed-down real-time combat.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/games/sfw13314.html (793 words)

	Forum Thread : Top 10 Games... of all time. And prove why. :. GarageGames
		While the King's Quest games have a strong place in my heart, III was the one that I felt completed a new storyline experience (as opposed to the traditional storyline that I'd been playing in action games and interactive fiction and RPG's).
		Almost as influential as Pac-Man in mainstreaming gaming, it was the game that exposed the potential for first-person perspective, "You are there" (or, to borrow a term from the era, "virtual reality") gaming to hundreds of thousands of people who wouldn't touch a flight sim with a 10' pole.
		Many bad games (that have adequate development time and talent) end up the same way because they are so focused on 'technical' wonders, where they lose sight of pleasing the audience and fashion themselves as a type of genius designer.
	www.garagegames.com /mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=30043 (13396 words)

	GameSpy.com - Articles
		Games like Infocom's Egyptian-themed Infidel, the spell-woven Enchanter series, the Cthulhu-inspired Lurking Horror or the mind manglingly hilarious Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy are still case studies of great computer game design, and game world creation and integration.
		Computer role-playing games, for example, were striving not only to do the game mastering and tedious bookkeeping for the player, but to display every wound, spell, article of clothing, weapon, adversary or item, even then.
		It was exactly the game people were looking for at the time, taken straight out of the first Star Wars film.
	archive.gamespy.com /legacy/articles/devweek_k.shtm (551 words)

	GameOver Retrospective - Infocom
		The Zork project was completed for mainframe use in February of 1979 and shipped in November 1980 by Personal Software Inc. for DEC PDP-11 machines running ITS; The dawn of computer gaming was upon the general populous with this tiny text-based adventure game.
		This was a lot harder to accomplish in the pre-graphics era of computer gaming and the Infocom authors should be commended on their fabulous composition in these games.
		Beyond Zork was a breakthrough game, stylistically for Infocom since it featured the first graphics in any of their titles: an on-screen map.
	www.game-over.net /retro/april99/infocom/index.html (1373 words)

	www.gameindustry.com
		There is no way you can make certain magic items at the enchanter shops in the game, like these powerful blades that paralyze you for 10 seconds, or even minor constant effect magic items.) Anyway, I am able to dispatch the intruder, but it is a close fight.
		There is a huge level of political intrigue as well as the goddess living in the city temple and the new king over in the palace make moves against one another, often using your character as a pawn in their grand chess game.
		The side quests are some of the most fun in the game, and all fall into the aforementioned creative category.
	www.gameindustry.com /review/item.asp?id=180 (1013 words)

	Enchanter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Taking place in the same universe as the Zork Trilogy, Enchanter is the first in a second trilogy dealing much more with the magical aspects of the universe.
		The story of the game is quite good, though, unfortunately, it doesn't develop much trough the game.
		With a good mix of easy and more difficult puzzles, Enchanter is good for the beginning adventurer, though a familiarity with the Zork universe and the mapping techniques required for interactive fiction games such as this would definitely be an asset.
	www.matthewmurray.net /Reviews/ComputerGames/Enchanter.html (133 words)

	Video Games Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Computer games have been a passion of mine for nearly seventeen years.
		Diablo 2 is the current game that is absorbing a lot of my spare time.
		During the corse of the game, an experiment goes awry, opening a doorway to a parallel universe.
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	Everquest; Classic with Shadows of Luclin - Game Review
		The game is widely popular because people join together on quests and other adventures all over Norrath, and Luclin too, of course.
		The game is intimidating when you just start off, it has a bit of a steep learning curve, but with a little bit of help from other players, or the guide book, you'll get the hang of it in no time.
		I had no problems installing this game, you just have to be prepared for a bunch of patches to install, this can last up to hours, being patient was the hardest part.
	www.smartgirl.org /reviews/games/374502.html (424 words)

	The Mame Game Recommendations Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The games at the top of the list are classics; if you haven't played them, you should.
		It's my hope that this web site will be useful to other people in trimming down their collections as well, and finally being free of that psychosis that compels them to waste time, bandwidth, and hard disk space tracking down every variation of every spinoff of Space Invaders.
		With a scoring system, people are likely to give all three games a good score, making it tough to tell which version is more 'definitive' than the others.
	www.enchanter.net /magarp/info.html (567 words)

	Everquest Hints
		Hell even if everyone decides fine we will play humans to be together the only thing i will have to say to that is see you guys in a few days as i travel to you.
		yes decide a common race or common place for our testers to get togather and explore the game together but that does not mean you are going to limit me or anyone else to what i can or can not be.
		Brotherhood of the Crimson Knights The BCK can provide online assistance with the game and suggestions for how to play, but even better they are good companions.
	www.thecomputershow.com /computershow/hints/everquesthints.htm (668 words)

	GameSpy.com - Article: GameSpy's Top 50 Games of All Time
		Originally born on a mainframe in the 70s, Zork was too big to fit on a personal computer so it was broken into a trilogy for its release on home systems.
		Brian Chapman, Microsoft Games: "This was the first computer game that sucked me in and I actively pursued as an activity.
		I think I remember this game fondly mostly because back in the day there was no auto-mapping features in games so my mom would play with me and draw maps of the Great Underground Empire.
	archive.gamespy.com /articles/july01/top504a (922 words)

	Review: Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind for PC on Gamepro.com.
		Whereas the last Elder Scrolls game, Daggerfall, was huge because it created towns and quests at random, Morrowind is entirely hand-crafted and still rivals its predecessor for sheer size and depth.
		There is no way you?ll be able to do everything in the game with just one character, and the gameplay is vastly different among different character types, so you?ll want to play over and over just to see what life is like as a dark elven vampire enchanter or an undead-summoning Imperial archer.
		The fact that the game is so open-ended might turn off a few people who are used to being led around by their noses.
	www.gamepro.com /computer/pc/games/reviews/23820.shtml (751 words)

	Bibliographic Metadata in TADS Games
		Since IF games that are uploaded to the Archive will be stored indefinitely, people might be looking at this information well into the future; so we recommend that you only include a URL if your site is likely to be around for a while.
		There's a tradition in computer software of using elaborate "dotted" version numbers with a multitude of sub-parts, as in "2.5.7.11.14B"; but most IF games see only a handful of releases, so a simple one-part version number ("2") is usually quite adequate.
		For example, a game browser on your PC might want to contact the IF Archive to request the latest copy of a particular game; it could do this by sending the IFID to the Archive, and the Archive would know exactly which game your browser is talking about.
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	Feature: Lords of EverQuest for PC on Gamepro.com.
		SOE's first strategy game may not ship to stores until next week, but GamePro.com recently had the chance to sit down with James Parker, the producer of Lords of Everquest, and grill him about the upcoming title.
		We also realized that there are a lot of RTS games out there and we didn't want to just do the same thing as everyone else, so we decided to add our own special blend to the mix.
		As far as the overall lore of the game, Lords takes place in the fabled Lost Age, during the War of the Gods.
	www.gamepro.com /computer/pc/games/features/31841.shtml (1302 words)

	Scorpia : A Pioneer in Computer Gaming - Computer Games
		Russ Sipe, then owner/publisher of Computer Gaming World, was a member of the SIG.
		Scorpia: Probably because most computer games - which are aimed at the young male demographic - have little appeal for women generally.
		There may be more women gamers and game designers in time, but computer gaming on the whole is likely to remain more male-oriented than not.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art8555.asp (603 words)

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		Game Trading Zone ; a site specializing in trading computer games; useful if you want to trade one of your games for Enchanter.
	www.mobygames.com /game/dos/enchanter/links (246 words)

	THE ENCHANTER Part One
		Ok, the game begins with your being summoned by Belboz to a
		Here is one of those variable things in the game.
		again, in which case the game is lost.
	www.gamesurge.com /pc/strategy/pc_wt/Enchanter.shtml (1647 words)

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	spong.com /game/11006913 (257 words)

	Sorcerer's Place - Enchanter
		(Click on My Computer on your desktop, then hold Alt and press Enter to look it up.)
		Specialist mages have become narrowly trained in a specific field of magic.
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	www.sorcerers.net /Games/BG2/enchanter.php (433 words)

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