History VideoGame / LegacyOfTheAncients

In this 1989 [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer MS-DOS game]], you are a simple shepherd on the planet of Tarmalon. In your time, you have never ventured further than the town of Holy Point, two days march to the north.

* BettingMiniGame: Flip-Flop and Blackjack are the best way for a beginning player to earn gold. Be careful, as you can win only about 800 gold per session. Any more than that, and the guards ZergRush you. By the time you're strong enough to kill guards, you won't need the funds. Intelligence (your ability to use magic) involves paying an amethyst (mid-level) coin and 50 gold a shot to play "Stones of Wisdom" (Liar's Dice).

You are a simple shepherd on the planet of Tarmalon. In your time, you have never ventured further than the town of Holy Point, two days march to the north. One day, while tending your flock, you see a dead man by the side of the road. Though you have never considered yourself a thief, something compels you to reach down and take the leather scroll clutched in his stiffening fingers. Unclasping his arm-band is trickier, but you manage to unclasp it and fasten it to your own wrist. Scooping up two coins of carved jade and a disk of obsidian, you resume your travels.

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!! This game provides example of:

* TopDownView - When traveling over land. It switches to FauxFirstPerson3D in the museum and dungeon crawls.

* The ObiWan: The Museum Caretaker, who is only accessible via the "Welcome" exhibit. He gives you a few quests and the means to level you up.

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You are a simple shepherd on the planet of Tarmalon. In your time, you have never fentured further than the town of Holy Point, twn days march to the north. One day, while tending your flock, you see a dead man by the side of the road. Though you have never considered yourself a thief, something compels you to reach down and take the leather scroll clutched in his stiffening fingers. Unclasping his arm-band is tricker, but you manage to unclasp it and fasten it to your own wrist. Scooping up two coins of carved jade and a disk of obsidian, you resume your travels.

* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: The museum thought Tarmalon magic was just a silly supersition. Unfortunately, the compendium [[EvilIsNotAToy actually works]] and was stolen from the museum without the museum knowing how to control it.

* MiniGame: In addition to gambling, you increase your dexterity and endurance stats through "training ground" minigames. "Dexterity" involves shooting fireballs with a crossbow. "Endurance" is blocking fireballs with s shield.

* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: Running out of food is an instant death. There's not much of an excuse for it, though. You can carry up to 1000 days at a time, and food is ridiculously cheap

* MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual: The Tarmalon Museum has history exhibits, functional weaponry, portals to one of the towns, a cache of gold, and passages to nasty dungeons...among other things.

* RespawnPoint: If you do get killed, you will be [[ContinuingIsPainful stripped of all gear and money]] and dumped in the far north part of the main landmass.

* TheWanderingYou: You're going to spend most of this game wandering the landscape. fighing critters and wandering from town to town. Museum coins aren't very common.

Congratulations, you've found an an ancient museum, put together for the amusement of spacefaring travelers. Unfortunately, that scroll you're carrying is the Wizard's Compendium, a book of world-destroying spells. That dead guy was the museum's best agent, killed before her could report the danger. Now, it's on you to level up and save the world.

* FeaturelessProtagonist : You aren't even given a way to distriibute your stats.

* MineralMacGuffin: The museum coins. You're going to be spending a lot of time hoping to find ones to open the exhibits.

* The ObiWan: The Museum Caretaker, who is only accessible via the "welcome" exhibit. He gives you a few quests and the means to level you up.

* SchmuckBait: The Lost Displays. At least two of them lead directly to nasty dungeons. The game even lanpshades your low chances of survival.

* AWinnerIsYou: Played straight or averted in a ''very'' cool fashion, YMMV. The Museum creates a new exhibit in your honor. Too bad no one on Tarmalon can access said museum, but galactic travelers can.

* BettingMiniGame: Flip-Flop and Blackjack are the best way for a beginning player to earn gold. Be careful, as you can win only about 800 gold per session. any more than that, and the guards ZergRush you. Byt the time you're strong enough to kill guards, you won't need the funds. Intelligence (your ability to use magic) involves paying an amathyst (mid-level) coin and 50 gold a shot to play "Stones of Wisdom" (Liar's Dice).

Congratulations, you've found an an ancient museum, put together for the amusement of spacefaring travelers. Unfortunately, that scroll you're carrying

* ShopliftAndDie: Again, by the time you're strong enough to mow through the guards, the take you get from the town merchants is now worth it.

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* AnAdventurerIsYou

* GamblingMiniGame: Flip-Flop and Blackjack.