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It became the best-selling computer RPG of the '80s, selling 407,000 copies, and The Bard's Tale went on to spawn a trilogy.

The '80s solidified the presence of the gaming industry in mainstream pop culture with everything from coin-op arcades to the expansion of home console and PC gaming. This was the decade that Nintendo ...

Previous decades laid the groundwork for the wide adoption of the internet in the '90s. This piece of '80s technology was a ...

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