instal the last version for windows The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship…

Unfortunately, this is the best prose you could expect from a non-Infocom adventure in 1982. Why? I’m not sure, now, but rather than let all those hours spent playing go to waste I thought I’d review them all here. I often at least attempted to play these games straight to the end, even the bad ones, and if I didn’t finish it usually had to do with glitches caused by running DOS games on a Windows machine.

Thus began my DOS-based adventures in Middle Earth. I also had something of a Tolkien obsession, so when 13 year-old me stumbled across the Tolkien Computer Games page I ended up trying to get my hands on all of the games listed. However, I would drop by the school library at lunch with a floppy disk and download abandonware off Home of the Underdogs to play at home. When I was 12 I bought my first computer, and I didn’t have an internet connection until I was 17. More to the point, I have a kind of fascination with older Tolkien-based games and the wildly different styles between them. I like seeing different visual interpretations of Tolkien’s books, and now they’ve become a homogenous blend of John Howe and Allen Lee. I recently watched the game trailer for Guardians of Middle Earth with a touch of sadness at this state of affairs. I’m resigned to the fact that post-2001, computer games based on The Lord of the Rings will look to the films for inspiration.

Instal the last version for windows The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship…