Legacy of the Ancients
"The player takes on the role of a young shepherd who finds and loots a recently dead body while on a first trip to the city, taking a black disk, a bracelet, and a leather scroll. The Galactic Museum…
Legacy of the Ancients is an adventure developed by Quest Software, released 31 December 1987 on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
What Legacy of the Ancients is
Legacy of the Ancients is an adventure game developed by Quest Software and released in 1987. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"The player takes on the role of a young shepherd who finds and loots a recently dead body while on a first trip to the city, taking a black disk, a bracelet, and a leather scroll. The Galactic Museum mysteriously appears to the player after collecting these items. The player learns that by taking these items, he has become the next in a line of adventurers attempting to destroy the Wizard's Compendium, the leather scroll the player picked up. The museum has various display cases that require the insertion of special coins of various types to access. Some coins can be bought in random encounters with NPCs, some can be found as loot after combat, and some coins can only be found at the…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Legacy of the Ancients launched on 31 December 1987, within three weeks of Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus and Head Over Heels.
Released around the same time: Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus, Head Over Heels.
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