don't know what the fascination of Wizardry I is; if I describe it in objective terms, it seems boring—which it certainly is not, as witness the time it has eaten this month". Macworld commented that the Macintosh port's conversion to the Classic Mac OS mouse-driven graphical user interface enhanced the game's charm and streamlined its gameplay; the game mediates actions through "such familiar Macintosh devices as windows, alert boxes, icons, scrolling lists, and so on." Macworld inducted Wizardry into its inaugural Game Hall of Fame as Best Role-Playing Game, ahead of runner-up Xyphus. The Wizardry series was ported to various Japanese computers such as the NEC PC-8801 and became popular there. Along with Ultima, it inspired JRPG series like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. In 1984, Softline readers named the game the most popular Apple program of all time. The game was the top-rated adventure for five years in Computer Gaming Worlds reader poll, until Ultima IV replaced it in 1986, and with a score of 7.69 out of 10, in 1988 Wizardry was among the first members of the magazine's Hall of Fame, honoring those games rated highly over time by readers, as the magazine's 1982 review predicted. In 1990 the game received the ninth-highest number of votes in a survey of Computer Gaming World readers' "All-Time Favorites", and in 1991 and 1993 the magazine's Scorpia wrote that "while mainly hack-and-slash, it's still a grand expedition, even today". In 1996, the magazine named Wizardry the 16th best game ever. The editors wrote, "The seminal dungeon romp, this RPG sent AD&D fans scrambling to buy Apple IIs". References External links Images of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord package and manual from C64Sets.com Wizardry Archives: http://www.wizardryarchives.com Role-playing video games Apple II games Commodore 64 games Commodore 128 games FM-7 games Classic Mac OS games MSX2 games NEC PC-8801 games NEC PC-9801 games Nintendo Entertainment System games Sharp X1 games Single-player video games Super Nintendo Entertainment System games TurboGrafx-CD games Video games developed in the United States Video games scored by Kentarō Haneda Video games scored by Toshiaki Sakoda Video games set in castles Wizardry WonderSwan Color games 1981 video games First-person party-based dungeon crawler video games Video games developed in Japan