The Forgotten Realms Archives

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Developer(s) Strategic Simulations
Publisher(s) Interplay Productions
Platform(s) MS-DOS
ReleaseApril 1997
Genre(s) Role-playing
Mode(s) Single-player

The Forgotten Realms Archives is a compilation of the AD&DForgotten Realms series from the beginning of the series in 1988 through 1994, including 12 complete games. It was released in April 1997, [1] and re-released a year later as a Silver Edition, which included an interactive demo for 1998's Baldur's Gate , and republished in 2001 as part of the Gamefest Interplay collector's series, Gamefest: Forgotten Realms Classics.

Contents

Game list

Reception

Power Play gave the collection a "good" rating. [3]

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References

  1. "Archived copy". www.interplay.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 1997. Retrieved 12 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. bam mirror on GitHub.com
  3. "Compilations & Budget-titel - The Forgotten Realms Archives". Power Play (in German) (7/97): 130–131. July 1997. Retrieved 10 August 2022.