History of AD&D PC Games

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Written by BuckGB on May 10th, 2001

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1988
Pool of Radiance
The one that started it all—the first of the "Gold Box" games. SSI's Pool of Radiance was the first full-fledged AD&D game for the personal computer. Originally available for 8-bit machines such as the Commodore 64, the PC version ran under DOS 3 and required 384 KB of RAM. You controlled a party of six characters created using the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules, and adventuring was a mix of first-person stepped 3D movement on grid-based maps, and top-down third-person 2D tactical combat reminiscent of a miniatures wargame. A genuine classic.

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