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Retro: Tales Of The Unknown: The Bard’s Tale

By Kieron Gillen on August 19th, 2008.

This is the C64 cover, edited so it doesn't have the word C64 on it. Because we have fucking standards. It's basically what the Spectrum cover was. Of course, there's many differences between the PC and Spectrum versions, not least the multiload. Bu who cares, eh?
[The original version of this appeared in PC Gamer. There's been a handful of additions.]

Maths was always our favourite lesson, for the simple reason we never did any Maths in it. There were always more obvious rebels for the teacher to whip into line than David Hyland, Simon Holmes and myself, crouched over our desks and using the class’ infinite supply of squared paper to copy out each others maps. From a distance, it even looked as if we were working.
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