Wizardry
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| Genres | Role-playing video game |
| Developers | Sir-Tech |
| Publishers | Sir-Tech |
| Creators |
Andrew C. Greenberg Robert Woodhead |
| First release |
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord 1981 |
| Latest release |
Wizardry 8 November 15, 2001 |
| Spin-offs |
Tale of the Forsaken Land Nemesis: The Wizardry Adventure Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls Wizardry Online |
Wizardry is a series of role-playing video games, developed by Sir-Tech, which were highly influential in the evolution of modern console and computer role-playing games. The original Wizardry was a significant influence on early console RPGs such as Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy. Originally made for the Apple II, the games were later ported to other platforms. The last official game in the series by Sir-Tech, Wizardry 8, was originally released for Microsoft Windows and is currently available for play on Mac and Linux via bundled emulation. There have since been various spin-off titles released only in Japan.
Wizardry began as a simple dungeon crawl by Andrew C. Greenberg and Robert Woodhead. It was written when they were students at Cornell University and then published by Sir-Tech. The game was influenced by earlier games from the PLATO system, most notably Oubliette.
The earliest installments of Wizardry were very successful, as they were the first graphically-rich incarnations of Dungeons & Dragons-type gameplay for home computers. The release of the first version coincided with the height of D&D's popularity in North America.
The first five games in the series were written in Apple Pascal, an implementation of UCSD Pascal. They were ported to many different platforms by writing UCSD Pascal implementations for the target machines (Mac II cross-development).
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