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WIZARDRY’S LEGACY

The name Wizardry still carries weight, which is probably why the recent announcement of Eternal Crypt: Wizardry BC—a blockchain-based clicker game and NFT platform—went down like a lead balloon. A sad sign of the times, perhaps, but a good excuse to talk with Robert and Norman Sirotek, the brothers behind Sir-Tech, publisher of the most influential RPGs of the 1980s.

It’s hard to imagine a world without . The first game, , released in 1981 for the Apple II before being ported to almost every platform of its era, is one of the key foundational works of the medium. Even in its original form

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