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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

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