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67 relations: Action role-playing game, Adventure game, Adventure Game Studio, AGD Interactive, Amiga, Anachronism, Arabs, Atari ST, Baba Yaga, Board game, Cardinal direction, Casablanca (film), Castle of Dr. Brain, Character class, Classic Mac OS, Classical element, Culture of Africa, Destructoid, Easter egg (media), Egyptian mythology, Engadget, Enhanced Graphics Adapter, Fairy tale, GameRankings, Games Workshop, German folklore, Germanic mythology, GOG.com, Greek mythology, Hero, Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, Heroine's Quest, HeroQuest, IMDb, Kotaku, Mad scientist, Magic (supernatural), Magic sword, Mashable, Microsoft Windows, Middle Eastern folklore, Milton Bradley Company, MS-DOS, Myth, Norse mythology, One Thousand and One Nights, PC-98, Polygon (website), Pun, Puzzle, ... Expand index (17 more) »
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- Video game franchises introduced in 1989
Action role-playing game
An action role-playing game (often abbreviated action RPG or ARPG) is a subgenre of video games that combines core elements from both the action game and role-playing genre.
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Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving.
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Adventure Game Studio
Adventure Game Studio (AGS) is an open source development tool primarily used to create graphic adventure games.
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AGD Interactive
AGD Interactive (AGDI), LLC.
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Amiga
Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.
Anachronism
An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, 'against' and χρόνος khronos, 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of people, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods.
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Arabs
The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.
Atari ST
Atari ST is a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the company's 8-bit home computers.
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Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga is an enigmatic or ambiguous character from Slavic folklore (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who has two opposite roles.
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Board game
Board games are tabletop games that typically use.
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Cardinal direction
The four cardinal directions, or cardinal points, are the four main compass directions: north, south, east, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, S, E, and W respectively.
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Casablanca (film)
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid.
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Castle of Dr. Brain
Castle of Dr.
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Character class
In tabletop games and video games, a character class is an occupation, profession, or role assigned to a game character to highlight and differentiate their abilities and specializations.
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Classic Mac OS
Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9.
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Classical element
The classical elements typically refer to earth, water, air, fire, and (later) aether which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances.
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Culture of Africa
The Culture of Africa is varied and manifold, consisting of a mixture of countries with various tribes depicting their unique characteristic and trait from the continent of Africa.
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Destructoid
Destructoid is a website that was founded as a video game-focused blog in March 2006 by Yanier Gonzalez, a Cuban-American cartoonist and author.
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Easter egg (media)
An Easter egg is a message, image, or feature hidden in software, a video game, a film, or another — usually electronic — medium.
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Egyptian mythology
Egyptian mythology is the collection of myths from ancient Egypt, which describe the actions of the Egyptian gods as a means of understanding the world around them.
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Engadget
Engadget is a technology news, reviews and analysis website offering daily coverage of gadgets, consumer electronics, video games, gaming hardware, apps, social media, streaming, AI, space, robotics, electric vehicles and other potentially consumer-facing technology.
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Enhanced Graphics Adapter
The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) is an IBM PC graphics adapter and de facto computer display standard from 1984 that superseded the CGA standard introduced with the original IBM PC, and was itself superseded by the VGA standard in 1987.
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Fairy tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre.
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GameRankings
GameRankings was a video gaming review aggregator that was founded in 1999 and owned by CBS Interactive.
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Games Workshop
Games Workshop Group (often abbreviated as GW) is a British manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England.
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German folklore
German folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in Germany over a number of centuries.
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Germanic mythology
Germanic mythology consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples, including Norse mythology, Anglo-Saxon mythology, and Continental Germanic mythology.
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GOG.com
GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a digital distribution platform for video games and films.
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Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.
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Hero
A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength.
Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption
Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption is an adventure role-playing game by the creators of Quest for Glory, Lori Cole and Corey Cole, developed with a custom Unity engine.
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Heroine's Quest
Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok is an adventure game/RPG hybrid developed by Dutch studio Crystal Shard, set in the world of the Poetic Edda and Norse Mythology.
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HeroQuest
HeroQuest, is an adventure board game created by Milton Bradley in conjunction with the British company Games Workshop in 1989, and re-released in 2021.
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
Kotaku
Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.
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Mad scientist
The mad scientist (also mad doctor or mad professor) is a stock character of a scientist who is perceived as "mad, bad and dangerous to know" or "insane" owing to a combination of unusual or unsettling personality traits and the unabashedly ambitious, taboo or hubristic nature of their experiments.
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Magic (supernatural)
Magic is an ancient practice rooted in rituals, spiritual divinations, and/or cultural lineage—with an intention to invoke, manipulate, or otherwise manifest supernatural forces, beings, or entities in the natural world.
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Magic sword
In mythology, legend or fiction, a magic sword is a sword with magical powers or other supernatural qualities.
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Mashable
Mashable is a news website, digital media platform and entertainment company founded by Pete Cashmore in 2004.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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Middle Eastern folklore
Middle Eastern folklore may include any of the following.
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Milton Bradley Company
Milton Bradley Company or simply Milton Bradley (MB) was an American board game manufacturer established by Milton Bradley (1836-1911) in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860.
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MS-DOS
MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.
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Myth
Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.
Norse mythology
Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period.
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One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.
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PC-98
The, commonly shortened to PC-98 or, is a lineup of Japanese 16-bit and 32-bit personal computers manufactured by NEC from 1982 to 2000.
Polygon (website)
Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture.
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Pun
A pun, also known as a paranomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.
Puzzle
A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge.
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Quest for Glory
Quest for Glory is a series of hybrid adventure/role-playing video games, which were designed by Corey and Lori Ann Cole. Quest for Glory and Quest for Glory are Activision Blizzard franchises and video game franchises introduced in 1989.
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Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire is the second video game in Sierra On-Line's Quest for Glory series, and the sequel to Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero.
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Quest for Glory III: Wages of War
Quest for Glory III: Wages of War is a hybrid adventure/role-playing video game released in 1992 for MS-DOS.
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Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire
Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire is the fifth and final game in the Quest for Glory computer game series by Sierra FX, a former "sub brand" of Sierra On-Line.
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Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness
Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness is an adventure game/role-playing video game hybrid.
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Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero
Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero (originally known as Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero) is a 1989 adventure game/role-playing game hybrid, designed by Lori Ann Cole and published by Sierra On-Line for MS-DOS.
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Role-playing
Role-playing or roleplaying is the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role.
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Role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.
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Role-playing video game
A role-playing video game, a role-playing game (RPG) or computer role-playing game (CRPG), is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world, usually involving some form of character development by way of recording statistics.
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Sierra Entertainment
Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (formerly On-Line Systems and Sierra On-Line, Inc.) was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1979 by Ken and Roberta Williams.
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Slavic paganism
Slavic paganism, Slavic mythology, or Slavic religion is the religious beliefs, myths, and ritual practices of the Slavs before Christianisation, which occurred at various stages between the 8th and the 13th century.
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Steam (service)
Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront managed by Valve.
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Tetralogy
A tetralogy (from Greek τετρα- tetra-, "four" and -λογία -logia, "discourse") is a compound work that is made up of four distinct works.
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Thieves' guild
In popular fiction, a thieves' guild is a formal association of criminals who participate in theft-related organized crime.
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Traditional African religions
The beliefs and practices of African people are highly diverse, including various ethnic religions.
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Video Graphics Array
Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a video display controller and accompanying de facto graphics standard, first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, which became ubiquitous in the IBM PC compatible industry within three years.
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Word play
Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement.
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See also
Activision Blizzard franchises
- 3-D Ultra Pinball
- Assault Heroes
- Caesar (video game)
- Call of Duty
- Candy Crush Saga
- City Building (series)
- Crash Bandicoot
- Dark Reign: The Future of War
- Diablo (series)
- Empire Earth
- Extreme PaintBrawl
- Front Page Sports Baseball
- Gabriel Knight
- Geometry Wars
- Guitar Hero
- Hoyle's Official Book of Games
- King's Quest
- List of Cabela's video games
- List of Hi-Res Adventures video games
- List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video games
- List of video games featuring Spider-Man
- Lords of the Realm
- Overwatch
- Police Quest
- Police Quest and SWAT
- Quest for Glory
- Ski Resort Tycoon
- Skylanders
- Space Quest
- Spyro
- Spyro the Dragon
- StarCraft
- StarCraft II
- Tenchu
- The Legend of Spyro
- Tony Hawk's
- Tony Hawk's (series)
- True Crime (series)
- Ultimate Soccer Manager
- Warcraft
- Zork
Video game franchises introduced in 1989
- Baseball Simulator 1.000
- Blue Lightning (1989 video game)
- Bonk (series)
- Crazy Castle
- Dragon Knight (video game series)
- Dungeon Explorer (1989 video game)
- Final Fight
- Fire Pro Wrestling
- Golden Axe
- Golden Tee Golf
- Harpoon (series)
- Hoyle's Official Book of Games
- Kick Off (series)
- Kōshien (series)
- Last Half of Darkness
- List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video games
- MechWarrior
- Mother (video game series)
- Populous (series)
- Prince of Persia
- Quest for Glory
- Rance (series)
- Richman (series)
- SaGa
- SimCity
- Strider Hiryu
- Super Mario Land
- TRACON (series)
- Tengai Makyo
- Tex Murphy
- The Legend of Heroes
- Trump Castle (series)
References
Also known as 'Enry the 'Ermit, Abdulla Doo, Ad Avis, Avoozl, Aziza (Quest for Glory), Baba Yaga (Quest for Glory), Barnard von Spielburg, Bruno (Quest for Glory), Devon Aidendale, Dryad (Quest for Glory), East Fricana, Elsa von Spielburg, Erasmus (Quest for Glory), Fenris (Quest for Glory), Fenrus (Quest for Glory), Glorianna, Green Meep, Henry the Hermit, Hero (Quest for Glory), Julanar, Katrina (Quest for Glory), Kobold Magic User, Kreesha, Liontaur (Quest for Glory), List of Quest for Glory Characters, Mordavia, Piotyr, QfG, Quest for Glory Anthology, Quest for Glory: Collection Series, Rakeesh, Rakeesh Sah Tarna, Salim Nafs, Shameen and Shema, Shapeir, Shema (Quest for Glory character), Uhura (Quest for Glory).