{"id":1047,"date":"2014-05-05T11:18:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2014-05-05T12:00:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T17:00:41","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-eye-of-the-beholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1047\/retro-scan-of-the-week-eye-of-the-beholder","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Eye of the Beholder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/eye_of_the_beholder_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/eye_of_the_beholder_small.jpg\" alt=\"Eye of the Beholder magazine advertisement 1991\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>How does he see&#8230; WITHOUT EYES.  More like eye of the not-beholder, am I right?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dos\/eye-of-the-beholder\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Eye of the Beholder<\/em><\/a> (1991) took the formula of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dungeon-master\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dungeon Master<\/em><\/a> formula and ran with it, resulting in one of the best the first-person real-time RPGs of the pre-3D era.  It&#8217;s definitely one of the best early VGA games for the IBM PC as well.<\/p>\n<p>As far as games of this category go, I&#8217;m quite partial to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/lands-of-lore-the-throne-of-chaos\">Lands of Lore<\/a> myself.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Video Games &#038; Computer Entertainment &#8211; January 1991, p.175]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite first-person RPG game of the 1990s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does he see&#8230; WITHOUT EYES. More like eye of the not-beholder, am I right? Eye of the Beholder (1991) took the formula of Dungeon Master formula and ran with it, resulting in one of the best the first-person real-time RPGs of the pre-3D era. It&#8217;s definitely one of the best early VGA games for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,13,27,26,9,10],"tags":[258,818,150,66,823,822,826,821,133,825,60,824,820,819,827],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","category-computers","tag-258","tag-add","tag-advertisement","tag-amiga","tag-dungeon-master","tag-eye-of-the-beholder","tag-first-person","tag-forgotten-realms","tag-ibm-pc","tag-lands-of-lore","tag-retro-scan","tag-rpgs","tag-ssi","tag-tsr","tag-vcge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}