* " The Bard's Song-The Hobbit " is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

Might and Magic is considered one of the defining examples of early PC role-playing games, along with the Bard's Tale, Ultima and Wizardry series.

In the earlier games the interface is very similar to that of Bard's Tale, but from Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven onward, the interface features a scrolling three-dimensional environment similar to that of Doom.

* ' The Bard's Song ' is Blind Guardian

is a first-person RPG ( similar in vein to Bard's Tale and the various SSI D & D games ) produced by Taito in 1989, and programmed by Natsume for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Another definitive feature of Blind Guardian music is frequent use of folk tunes and instruments, especially in power ballads such as " Lord of the Rings ", " The Bard's Song ", " A Past and Future Secret ", " Skalds and Shadows " and " Curse My Name ", among others.

The Bard's Tale ( Tales of the Unknown: Volume I ) is a fantasy role-playing video game created by Interplay Productions in and distributed by Electronic Arts.

The Bard's Tale is a straightforward " dungeon crawl ".

This is supported by the cover art of the original Bard's Tale release, which proclaimed the game as " Tales of the Unknown, Volume I.

Although the books had little in common with the storyline of the games, their existence is a testament to how influential the Bard's Tale brand had become.

* In the 2004 console game The Bard's Tale, Herne is one of the three guardians of the towers.

Botstein, who is also Bard's Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities, has been a pioneer in linking the liberal arts and higher education to public secondary schools.

He is rescued by Archangel who informs him this is Eli Bard's doing.

He is most well known as the designer and programmer of 1985's The Bard's Tale and 1986's The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight role-playing video games published by Interplay Productions.

* " The Bard's Song-In the Forest " is inspired by the computer game The Bard's Tale.

Emain Macha is an optional exploration area in the 2004 console game The Bard's Tale.

The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight is a fantasy role-playing video game created by Interplay Productions in 1986.

It is the first sequel to The Bard's Tale.

It is the last game of the series that was designed and programmed by Michael Cranford ; another programmer created The Bard's Tale III.

The world is a larger scale than The Bard's Tale.

There is a rendition of the song in the 2004 PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC game The Bard's Tale ( 2004 ).

Shakespeare experts Sir John Gielgud and Kenneth Branagh consider the definitive rendition of the Bard's tragic tale to be the 1964 Russian film Gamlet () based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich.

From its Romanticist usage, the notion of the bard as a minstrel with qualities of a priest, magician or seer also entered the fantasy genre in the 1960s to 1980s, for example as the " Bard " class in Dungeons & Dragons, Bard by Keith Taylor ( 1981 ), Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn ( 1984 ), and in video games in fantasy settings such as The Bard's Tale ( 1985 ).

* The Bard's Tale ( 1985 ) by Interplay Productions

Based loosely on traditional Dungeons and Dragons gameplay and inspired by the Wizardry computer games, The Bard's Tale was noteworthy for its unprecedented 3D graphics and animated character portraits.

A compilation of all three The Bard's Tale games, entitled The Bard's Tale Trilogy, was released for DOS by Electronic Arts in 1990.

A series of novels based on The Bard's Tale were published by Baen Books during the 1990s.

A long series of Shakespeare adaptations were the first done of the Bard's works in the U. S. The 1915 feature The Battle Cry of Peace ( written and directed by Blackton ) was one of the great propaganda films of World War I. Ironically, after America declared war, the film was modified for re-release because it was seen as not being sufficiently pro-war, thus it also earns a place in the history of censorship.

InXile Entertainment released a new Bard's Tale as one of its first titles, released by Vivendi Universal Games, but has found success in a new category of downloadable games, such as Line Rider and Fantastic Contraption, continuing Fargo's string of hit games into a fourth decade.

Placed and random encounters were both used in 1981s Wizardry and by the mid-1980s, random encounters made up the bulk of battles in genre-defining games such as Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy, and The Bard's Tale.

*" The Bard's Song ( In the Forest )" has been covered by German a cappella metal band van Canto.

" The Bard's Song ( In the Forest )" is a single by the German power metal band Blind Guardian, released in 2003.

The cover art and the two " Bard's Songs " gave the band its nickname " The Bards ".

Although a legal loophole allowed InXile to use the Bard's Tale name and the company had evidently planned to incorporate more elements of the original games, Electronic Arts still owns the original trademarks for the Bard's Tale series itself, and InXile was not legally allowed to use any of the plot, characters or locations featured in the original trilogy.

Some notable series that trace their look and feel to Wizardry include The Bard's Tale and Might and Magic.

In they released their first game, also titled The Bard's Tale, an irreverent console-style top-down action game which pokes fun at traditional fantasy role-playing game tropes — such as, for example, those found in the original Bard's Tale.

These names are in Cornish and will often refer somehow to the reason for their bardship: other Bardic names refer to the Bard's personal or family name, or describe the Bards themselves,

Much like The Bard's Tale, this view was static ( or mostly so ); it was not animated, though it was context-sensitive ( players could click on objects in this window rather than typing their names ).

* The Bard's Tale Construction Set ( 1992 )

# " The Bard's Song ( In the Forest )" ( from Somewhere Far Beyond ) – 7: 48

Early commercial mod-making tools were the Boulder Dash Construction Kit ( 1986 ) and the Bard's Tale Construction Set ( 1991 ), which allowed users to create game designs in those series.

The video game The Bard's Tale features a town named Dunwich in which many occult events occur.

T. S. Eliot famously proclaimed Coriolanus superior to Hamlet in The Sacred Wood, in which he calls the former play, along with Antony and Cleopatra, the Bard's greatest tragic achievement.

* The Bard's Tale video game franchise, which comprises Tales of the Unknown, Volume I: The Bard's Tale ( 1985 ), The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight ( 1986 ), The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate ( 1988 ), and The Bard's Tale Construction Set ( 1991 )

The Bard's Tale II takes place on a larger scale with an explorable wilderness, six cities, and multiple dungeons which give this game its dungeon crawl character.

Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic was a compelling video game combining both the elements of Starflight and The Bard's Tale, and had some innovations which set it apart from other games at the time.