Please recommend some of the best RPGs for 8-bit

[crash]

Alternate Reality and Ultima series should be on the list. Please suggest your other favorites.

 

Thanks

[pixelmischief]

Ultima IV, Alternate Reality Dungeon. Warm your thinker up on some Infocom stuff; Zork, Hitchhikker's, Asylum.

[Fletch]

Ali-Baba and the Forty Thieves

 

Return of Heracles

[Bryan]

How was Questron?

[Nognir]

I only played Questron on the Commodore 64, but it was a quite good game. Plays a lot like the first Ultima games, but I can't remember the story of the game..

[Bunsen]

Phantasie I and II

[Heaven/TQA]

Wizard's crown

[twh/f2]

Gemstone Warrior

[twh/f2]

Oh. And not to forget Auto Duel! Atarmania has some pretty nice scans of the manual as well as the colored map which came with the original game. Beautiful!

[crash]

There are a few that I was not familiar with, so thanks for the suggestions. Loved Ali Baba, but never got into Heracles for some reason. Will have to try it again. I'm surprised there aren't more good RPGs considering how many 8-bit games were made.

[+therealbountybob]

Ultima III - fantastic - as I only had a copy (originally), try playing from scratch with no manual or anything where you work out all the commands and do your own world map - might take longer but it's an extremely rewarding game.

 

Questron was fun but I never put the time in to get very far

 

not quite a RPG but be sure to play His Dark Majesty

[+RetroElectroDad]

The games I lost most late night hours to would be these, from most to least accessible:-

Alternate Reality - The Dungeon (probably The City too but for some reason I never got around to playing that one)

Ultima III and IV

Wizard's Crown and The Eternal Dagger (very hard core with a strategic battle system)

I'd find it very hard to pick a favourite.

 

I still have on my wish list to play (but I never seem to have enough time to devote):-

Temple of Apshai

Questron

Phantasie

[bbking67]

Seconds for Ultima III & IV and for Phantasie I & 2.

 

Sadly no Ultima V or Phantasie III, but these are great on the ST and should have been Atari 8 titles.

[Thorsten Günther]

For me, it always was Gateway to Apshai for it's fluent gameplay (kind of an early action RPG, really).

[Goochman]

If you ont mind bad graphics and can survive the first hour orso then check out Telengard. The C64 version is graphically much better but I still got some enjoyment out of it.

[JagChris]

I have Phantasie for the 8bit. Always lamented the fact Bards Tale came out for the C64 and not Atari. It looked so bad ass back in the day. A few years ago I finally got it for my NES. And now that I've spent time with it I think Phantasie is a better game. I wasn't missing much. 

 

Except it being in solid state with no disk drive to burn out.

[Kyle22]

2 hours ago, JagChris said:

I have Phantasie for the 8bit. Always lamented the fact Bards Tale came out for the C64 and not Atari. It looked so bad ass back in the day. A few years ago I finally got it for my NES. And now that I've spent time with it I think Phantasie is a better game. I wasn't missing much. 

 

Except it being in solid state with no disk drive to burn out.

I use a real, spinning hard disk so I have no Solid State Flash to burn out.

 

[Gunstar]

Pretty much any RPG from Origin, SSI, Epyx and Datasoft. They are all fun RPG's from DungeonQuest(Temple of Apshai) series to Phantasie and Wizards Crown, to Ultima series and Alternate Reality. And yes, I love me some good old Telengard too!

 

I never missed A Bard's Tale since I had the wonderful Alternate Reality games. It would have been nice, but I played it a bit about 15 years ago when I had a C64 I was restoring for sale, and I much preferred Alternate Reality to it. Though Bard's Tale is at the top of m y C64 software list when I get one for keeps soon.

Edited May 29, 2020 by Gunstar

[+davidcalgary29]

A8 Phantasie is still one of my favourite games on any system. I really have to stick to my goal of starting in on Phantasie II this summer, as I never did get around to playing it in the '80s.