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I still have my hand-drawn maps on graph paper from Wizardry V on the Apple IIe, 1988
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I still have my hand-drawn maps on graph paper from Wizardry V on the Apple IIe, 1988
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nazi symbol in the middle, can’t unsee that
Sword of Kadash. //e. While it was,say, 12×12 the middle has extra like 4 screens jammed in. Took way to long to figure out the problem with my map at 12.
I remember doing this for Wizardry II. There was a hack where if you unlatched your floppy drive you could prevent the game from saving when something killed you.
My mother played the original Legend of Zelda back in the day and made similar, highly detailed maps of every dungeon. I might still have them somewhere back home.
I always wished there was a game that was all about making maps. I know someone’s gonna say etrian odyssey and that’s sorta true. But I wish the main thing was making maps.
publishers made tons of money selling me video game guidebooks before internet
I used to have a sheets of maps just like that when I played it on my Apple II+. 🙂
This is awesome! I made graph paper maps of Kings Field and Kings Field 2 in the mid 90s.
I miss Wizardry. It was the game that got interested in computers. I’ve looked for copies that would still work on modern computers. Closest I found was formatted in Korean.
Such a flashback, thanks OP. Don’t remember which wizardy I played back in the day, but brought a smile for nostalgia.
This drawing is as old as me
Omg! A couple of years ago, I found a notebook with this exact same map that I drew 😃
Whaddup fellow old person? I still have my copy of Ultima IV for the Apple IIc.
This is awesome man, really takes me back. I feel fortunate to have grown up in that time, before easy access to information. Had to either scour the BBS forums or call the hint line if you were desperately stuck.
I am charmed by this.
Nice! Recently moved house and i threw out a little exercise book which had my Bards Tale 1 (Amiga 1000 era) maps which looked very similar to yours . Never played wizadry.
It’s going to be a maze!
Ah, the memories. I have my copies of Wizardry, and Ultima 3 through 5 on a shelf next to me. I miss when games came in nice boxes and had lots of goodies inside, like the Ultima coins and cloth maps.
Ever play The Bard’s Tale? I had that on pc in the late 80’s. I had a notebook of maps for those dungeons. Hell, even for the town.
Yeah I did the same thing for Bards Tale.
That stuff used up so much time, but was really satisfying once you had it.
The new version of Bards Tale has a map included. I don’t know if that is better…
Ahh, grid paper at its finest. Looks beautiful. 🙂
I recognized that image immediately! I had Wizardry V on the SNES, and I admit that I never beat it as a kid. In the era before the internet, I really had no hope of finding all the secret doors, answering all the riddles, and leveling up all my characters before old-age took them forever.
With a strategy guide (and a game genie code, to speed up leveling a little bit) I was finally able to beat it recently on an emulator. Kind of cool, actually. Glad to finally beat the SORN and see the end screen.
About 10 years ago i played Wizardry 1 on an ms dos emulator and mapped it all too. Except nowadays i use excel with the cells resized as squares instead of graph paper. Still it reminded me of the 80s/90s. These old rpgs still hold up. Hell, I prefer the old style. I like everything broken up into discrete rooms you can map on graph paper.
That’s cool! I have my Dungeon Master maps still and even older are notes from Ultima IV.
There is a mod called Back to the Dungeon for the first Legend of Grimrock that recreates Dungeon Master. It was as close as you could get to the original within the Grimrock engine. Even my old Atari ST Dungeon Master maps would still work.
WOW This springs back some memories. Although from Wizardry 1 on the Apple II C. Circa 1985
Mine were Bard’s Tale II on C64.
Reminds me of the folder of Everquest maps I used to have. No in-game maps at the time, so you had to either draw your own or print ones out that someone else had made and posted online. I did the latter, and then drew in my own routes and keys.
Nowadays every monster in fantasy games have built-in GPS trackers, apparently.
This guy wizards
Beautiful. I’ve long lost mine. Wizardry III was the game my parents bought retail. It cost an arm and a leg then, but it game with a block of Wizardry branded graph paper for maps. And without a warning that you needed a Wizardry I saved game, so we had to “get” Wizardry I, on which I spent much more time. I played all my RPGs with a notepad on the side until at least the mid 90s, drawing maps, writing notes of what the NPCs said…
Awesome! I would frame it and hang it. Reminds me of my Bard’s Tale days….
Thanks for sharing!
I’ve played a lot of those older games recently. I played them when they first came out, but I have to say it’s rough going back to making handmade maps. I guess I’ve been spoiled.
i remmeber doing this as a kid for zork, that was painful
This is why I don’t feel guilty using map guides when playing older games. Cause Ik that if it wasn’t available I’d do it myself.
I must have my own maps from The Bard’s Tale somewhere. I’ll see if I can dig them up.