ISLAND REVENUE
IT’S EASY TO LOOK BACK ON MID-’90S INTERPLAY AS A HAVEN FOR RPG DEVELOPMENT, BUT THAT’S FAR FROM THE TRUTH
The Black Isle isn’t even an island, in reality. It’s a peninsula in the Scottish Highlands, home to B&Bs and commuters working in nearby Inverness. Visitors frequent cottage museums and peer out across the damp beach, looking for bottlenose dolphins.
In the imaginations of Interplay’s internal development team, however, Black Isle became a blasted rock in the middle of the ocean, illuminated by fierce lightning strikes—more akin to ’s Aretuza than the real-life place accessible by the
