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Might and Magic is an ongoing journey that can last up to hundreds of hours. As you begin, let Chapters 1-4 of this book guide you through the first steps of your journey. If you are new to fantasy games, Chapter 5 will help acquaint you with the terms and conventions of this new world. As you gain in experience, your primary guide will become your. The realms of Might and Magic are expanding. New lands have been discovered and you must rise to the challenge of conquering them. Beware, for many warlords have risen to test your leadership and tactics. You must carefully manage all the resources at your disposal or you will surely be defeated.
Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum (also known as simply Might and Magic) is an early role-playing video game, first in the popular and influential Might and Magic franchise. It was released in 1986 as New World Computing's debut, ported to numerous platforms and re-released continuously through the early '90s.
Development[edit]
The original Apple II version of the game was written almost single-handedly by Jon Van Caneghem over three years.[2] Van Caneghem had difficulty finding a publisher to distribute Might and Magic, so he self-published as New World Computing, handling the distribution himself from his own apartment until he was able to broker a distribution deal with Activision.
Due to its popularity the game was ported to a number of other platforms that were popular at the time, and nine sequels were released over the next fifteen years.[3]
A port of Might and Magic was released for Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992.[4] While the basic gameplay was similar to ports released on earlier platforms, the graphics and general polish on the game reflected the later release date and greater capability of the Nintendo platform.[5]
The game was remade again for release in Japan on the PC Engine platform. This version of the game was released on CD-ROM² rather than cartridge and was able to feature digitized voices for dialogue as a result of the increased storage capacity offered by the CD medium.
The game was later included in Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven Limited Edition and Special Edition.
Plot and setting[edit]
The game is set on the world of VARN which features expansive outdoor terrain, castles, caves, underground cities and an Astral Plane.
The game centers on six adventurers who are trying to discover the secret of the Inner Sanctum: a kind of 'holy grail' quest. While trying to discover the Inner Sanctum, the heroes discover information about a mysterious character named Corak and his hunt for the missing villain Sheltem. They end up unmasking Sheltem, who had been masquerading as the King, and defeating his evil machinations.[6] At the end of the game they go through the 'Gates to Another World' and travel to CRON, not knowing that Sheltem has also escaped to that world.[7]
Although it appears to take place in a straightforward medievalfantasy setting of knights in armor, mythical monsters and magicians, a number of science fiction elements are revealed later in the game, down to the actual meaning of VARN (Vehicular Astropod Research Nacelle). This was a relatively common trait of early CRPGs, as also seen in the oldest Ultima and Wizardry titles. For example, the Sheltem plot is first introduced when the adventurers visit the site of a crashed space ship and are told by aliens that their prisoner is at large in the world.[8]
Game mechanics[edit]Characters[edit]
The characters in Might and Magic and its successors are defined by a number of rules, conforming loosely to the fantasy role-playing archetypes.
Characters have 'statistics' (analogous to Dungeons and DragonsAbility scores) of Might, Endurance, Accuracy, Personality, Intelligence and Luck.[9]
There are six character classes:
The player assigns each character a race at creation time: Human, Elf, Half-orc, Gnome or Dwarf. This affects the character's starting statistics, and their resistance to various forms of attack.[11]
Alignment is also chosen for all characters, but because the party acts collectively all of the time, the implications of this are minimal. Alignment plays some part in the game, in particular to determine the reward for one of the game's quests.[12]
Characters can also be male or female.[13] Like alignment, gender serves minimal purpose in the game, save for a few situations (notably, the city of Portsmith, in which all males, and only males, are injured when stepping through certain areas of the city). A character's gender can be changed back and forth via certain actions within the game world.[14]
Magic[edit]
There are two types of magic spells in Might and Magic: Sorcerer spells and Clerical spells. Sorcerer spells are available to Sorcerer and Archer characters; Clerical spells are available to Cleric and Paladin characters.[10] Daily spellcasting ability is limited by a character's spell points.[11] For users of Sorcerer spells, the number of spell points available depends on that character's Intelligence statistic. For Clerical spellcasters, the number of spell points depends on the character's Personality statistic.[15]
Sorcerer spells tend to be of an offensive nature, inflicting damage on enemy creatures.
Clerical spells are usually more defensive, focusing on healing, defense and removal of poison and other undesirable effects.[10]
Exploration[edit]
A typical screenshot of the IBM-PC port of the game in exploration mode
The world is presented as a labyrinth, utilizing a first person perspective interface similar to that employed by The Bard's Tale, where the gaming world is divided into a maze-like grid and the player's movement options are to move forward or backward, or turn ninety degrees left or right. The walls represent mountain ridges, cave stone, rows of trees or whatever obstruction might be expected in the terrain being explored.
Exploration, like combat, is turn-based in Might and Magic; hence in-game time does not pass while the player delays.[16]
If the party moves to a place where there are hostile creatures, or if a random encounter occurs, the game switches to a combat phase.[17]
Combat[edit]
When hostile creatures are encountered, the player is usually given the option to run away, attempt to surrender to the creatures, try to bribe them, or to attack. If the player elects to attack, or if their combat evasion attempt fails, the game enters combat mode.[18]
On most platforms, the combat interface is presented in a text-only format.[19]Turn-based combat is conducted, with each combatant acting in order of their speed statistic. Each round a random speed bonus is applied to either the player's party or the enemy creatures.[20] On each player-character's turn, the player selects an action from a list of options, including attacking a creature, casting a spell or attempting to run away.[21]
Combat ends when all combatants from one side or the other have either been rendered unconscious or dead (usually by having their hit points reduced to zero), or fled from combat. The player can also lose at combat by allowing all members of the party to succumb to sleep or paralysis effects.
Reception[edit]
Might and Magic sold over 100,000 copies by 1989.[22]
In 1987, Compute! magazine praised Might and Magic for its wealth of content, non-linear play and aspects of its graphics, though it notes that the game graphics lack animation, and that there is limited graphical representation of enemy combatants.[23]Scorpia of Computer Gaming World similarly praised the game's extensiveness, but noted that early versions of the game only equipped new party members with clubs, making the beginning of the game very difficult.[24] In 1988 Might and Magic joined the magazine's Hall of Fame for games highly rated over time by readers.[25] In 1993 the magazine stated that despite the starting difficulty 'it's well worth the effort'.[26] In 1996, the magazine named Might and Magic the 23rd best game ever. The editors wrote, 'A 3D dungeon view combined with the biggest world map to date were just two of the major features of this advanced level CRPG.'[27]
The Apple II version of the game was reviewed in 1987 in Dragon #122 by Patricia Lesser in 'The Role of Computers' column. Lesser stated that 'This adventure is awesome in its scope, completely fascinating, graphically pleasing, and one of the top five games ever produced for a computer.'[28] In a subsequent column, the reviewers gave the game 5 out of 5 stars.[29] Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser reviewed the IBM version of the game in 1988 in Dragon #132, also giving it 5 out of 5 stars.[30] The Lessers reviewed the MacIntosh version of the game in Dragon #140, giving the Macintosh II version 4½ stars, and the Macintosh Plus version 3½ stars.[31]
Modern commentators acknowledge MM1 for the immense scope of its world, for its freedom of exploration and for pioneering aspects such as incorporating player characters' race, gender and alignment into the gameplay.[32]
References[edit]
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Might and Magic: Book One - Secret of the Inner Sanctum
DOS - 1987
Also released on: Mac - Commodore 64 - PC-88
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Might and Magic: Book One - Secret of the Inner Sanctum (aka 魔法門, Меч и Магия, Mech i Magija) is a video game published in 1987 on DOS by New World Computing, Inc. It's a role-playing (rpg) game, set in a fantasy, turn-based and dungeon crawler themes, and was also released on Mac, Commodore 64 and PC-88.
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Shadic2017-05-200 point DOS version
Does anyone know how to go back to dos or shutdown game after playing it
LionMan2015-02-152 points DOS version
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I had this game on an Apple II GS back in the late 80s. My brother and I loved it.
A funny and 100% true story -- If you recall, you had to switch floppy disks go between certain areas in the game. One day, I was playing and I accidentally pulled a disk out before it was ready. I quickly realized my mistake and stuck it back in and locked it in. The disk reader fluttered a bit and I think I ended up having to restart the game, or maybe it told me to put in the other disk. I don't recall. In any event, I was getting ready to continue my quest when I noticed that, all of a sudden, I had the absolute maximum amount of gold. I don't recall how many digits there were, but I had millions in gold. Somehow when I pulled the disk out something happened with the memory for how much gold I had. I was insanely rich. And nothing else in the game was affected. If you played the game alot, you know there was a place where you could turn gold into experience. So what did I do? I basically maxed out a whole group of characters and equipped them with the best of everything, and still had millions in gold to boot. Nothing in the game could touch me. One guy in my party could defeat the biggest and baddest horde. It was fun but I suppose it in a certain respect it ruined the game for me. I tried playing a 'normal' game but if I was having trouble I'd go back to my 'Superman' mode. So that was my original 'cheat code', completely by accident.
DOSForever2015-01-087 points DOS version
The absolute greatest video game series ever. I've been playing M&M since yhe mid 80's. Nothing in the industry (besides D&D thru NVW 1) is more consistent on rules and history. The games are so deep and engaging. Nothing made after 2001 can compare. Todays games are like McDonalds food compared to this franchise and the old school games from last century.
I started playing M&M6 (again) on in November of 2013 and am now just finishing up M&M8 with M&M9 in wait. Then I plan on playing M&M 1 thru 5 after 9. I played 10 but when it first came out and that game was very buggy, also finished it in a week.. too short. It seems that todays devs just put stuff out there and fix it along the way. The classic games had to work direct from the factory. (See E.T. 1982 to explain why) Play this series!
eumaies2014-05-21-1 point DOS version
These were indeed classics. My brother and I had a full color 9-square of graph paper mapping out the entire outdoor space in our room. The awesomeness of actual variation in monster difficulty across different lands created an immersiveness that is completely lose by modern game 'Balance'. If only someone would combine the glory of today's graphics with the fun of these old principles.
ur dog2012-08-220 point DOS version
ive played the later 2000+ games but never these thank you for giving us these
Paradigm2011-02-237 points DOS version
The game that started it all..
Even the most veteran gamers have trouble experiencing the magic of this game, or games like it. The graphics are poor, but amazing for their time. The sound is almost non-existent. The reliance on books over in-game text makes playing this a research challenge, and there are elements of the game that are so cryptic, you'll cure cancer before you figure them out. This game was something special though. It has a depth of detail that, if you can look past its withered, aged face to become immersed enough, is something no modern game can compare too. Imagination is a requirement, as is some graph paper and a pencil for mapping. Don't be shocked if you encounter a group of insanely powerful monsters who wipe out your party within the first few minutes of play..these were the days before game balance. I recommend Might and Magic II for newcomers to the series over MM1 however, since that game offers an auto-mapper, better graphics (you know what you are looking at) and SLIGHTLY less cryptic puzzles. Write a comment
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