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- ↑ Review: Wizardry, Zzap!64, page 015 from issue 007, November 1985
- ↑ Commodore User 11/1985 page 42, page 43
- ↑ Computer and Video Games 12/1985 page 14, page 15
- ↑ Doyle, Eric (January 1986). "Action Replay: Wizardry". Your Commodore . p. 52. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ↑ Happy Computer 11/1986 page 120
