Classic Elite, Interplay titles coming to iOS
Touch Arcade has some good and bad news for fans of classic PC RPGs out there. The bad news is that the expected Elite Collection (which was set to come out last week and round up some of old developer Elite Systems' best games on iOS, has been delayed due to some rights issues. One of the companies involved that had previously agreed to share its games decided instead to claim a trademark at the last minute, which will hold up the process for a while, perhaps only a week or two.
The good news, however, is that that extra time will allow the folks behind the apps to add in some extra titles, which TA presumes are some really amazing Interplay games, including The Bard's Tale and the great RPG Wasteland. That would be awesome -- almost all of Interplay's old titles are classics, and it'd be great to get those up and running on iOS devices.
We'll see -- Elite is still working on getting everything together, but as I said, news should be out in the next couple of weeks. Here's hoping iOS gamers get their hands on this great collection soon.
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Touch Arcade has some good and bad news for fans of classic PC RPGs out there. The bad news is that the expected Elite Collection...
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The Bard's Tale! Wow, it introduced me to both computer gaming and RPGing. Would be such a blast to see it on iOS. I hope they make the games work with old, old systems like my 1st-gen iPod Touch.
November 10 2011 at 10:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAnother vote for the Ultima series plus I enjoyed the Wizardry series (really dating myself) as well...
November 01 2011 at 9:30 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyWhen will they bring back Ultima? THAT was my major time-sink! :)
October 31 2011 at 6:17 PM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down ReplyI've been playing the old Ultima DOS titles on my Mac using the Boxer DOS emulator. Pretty snappy, drag and drop friendly, and no f**king around with autoexec.bat or config.sys files. There's an iPhone emulator that works on jailbroken phones but I have yet to get it to work proper.
http://boxerapp.com/
At first glance I thought the Elite series by David Braben was coming to iOS... oh well.
October 31 2011 at 5:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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