When my dad bought our first PC, he let my brothers and I pick a game each. This was xmas '94, I think, because the game I chose was Dragon Lore (which came out in '94).
The reason I wanted to mention it on this blog is because I vividly remember it, or as much as I managed to play. As an 9 year old I didn't understand how to solve the puzzles and we took the game back a few weeks later and got another game, Dawn Patrol.
I've just been doing a little research into Dragon Lore and I remember the beginning of the game and the first areas you could explore so well! Despite only having it for such a short time. I was amazed by the capability of computer games, the graphics were incredible for the time and I loved being able to pick objects up and use them to interact with the environment. I also distinctly remember being killed over and over again by a skeleton armed with a grisly looking ax in a dungeon. The visuals were dark and jagged and they reminded me of old skool GW fantasy undead armies, which always looked great.
There's not much more I can say about this game. It was sad I was too young to really appreciate it, but I did eventually get a great dark fantasy title when I was a bit older in Stone Keep. Again though, I was still too young and not really good enough to get through the whole game, but I did enjoy it greatly and explored it a fair bit, but that's a game I'll talk about another time. Oh, and Dawn Patrol might be worth talking about, particularly because it was a prime example of amazing old skool computer game boxes and massive manuals!
Anyway, here's to Dragon Lore!
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