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    Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance

  • First released on 1 October, 1988 for Commodore C64/128
  • The player's party is enlisted to help the settled part of the city by clearing out the marauding inhabitants that have taken over the surroundings. The characters move on from one area to another, battling bands of enemies as they go and ultimately confronting the powerful leader of the evil forces.

    Fantasy
    Role-playing game
    Strategy
    Adventure

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    Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons & Dragons & Gold Box Games

    game universes.

  • First released on 1 October, 1988 for Commodore C64/128
  • The player's party is enlisted to help the settled part of the city by clearing out the marauding inhabitants that have taken over the surroundings. The characters move on from one area to another, battling bands of enemies as they go and ultimately confronting the powerful leader of the evil forces.


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    About

    Pool of Radiance was the first adaptation of TSR's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D or D&D) fantasy role-playing game for home computers, becoming the first episode in a four-part series of D&D computer adventure games. The player starts by building a party of up to six characters, deciding the race, sex, class and ability scores for each.

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    Commodore C64/128, PC DOS, Mac, Apple II, Sharp X1, Amiga, Nintendo Entertainment System

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    Single-player

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    First person

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    Third person

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    Bird view / Isometric

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    Gold Box

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    Strategic Simulations
    Strategic Simulations Inc was a developer and publisher notable for its numerous wargame titles.
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    Pony Canyon
    Formed from a merger between Pony Inc. and the company Canyon to form Pony Canyon. They published video games and many other forms of media (music, dvd, vhs).
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