“The stunning sequel to Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds!”
The June 1990 issue of Dragon magazine makes for a great companion to the 1989-1990 SSI catalog I shared last month, since this full-page ad for the Secret of the Silver Blades video game carries on where the earlier titles left off. I continued playing video games of this sort up through about 2003 or so — Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance* was the last one I really got into — but it was those SSI “Gold Box” games that I look back at and admire the most. Hey, the whole thing was new to me at the time, and those old games are forever etched into my mind.
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My buddy’s older brother was the big AD&D fan. He had Pools of Radiance and A Bard’s Tale and must have played those for weeks on end. I can’t recall if he finished them but we sure had fun watching over his shoulder!
Never played this one but I loved the first two games in the series.