Baldur's Gate
From Video Game Morgue File
Baldur's Gate is a computer role-playing game set in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. It was the first released game to employ BioWare's Infinity Engine. It was both critically and commercially successful, and is credited for reviving the CRPG genre from a fallow period.
Histories
- The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 and Baldur’s Gate — The Digital Antiquarian, by Jimmy Maher
- Baldur's Gate — episode 233 of They Create Worlds podcast, by Alex Smith & Jeffrey Daum
Dreamcast (cancelled)
A Sega Dreamcast version was announced, planned for release in May 2000. Sega themselves were handling porting duties, and online multiplayer was supported. It was cancelled around August 2000.
PlayStation (cancelled)
A PS1 version was in development. An incomplete but fully playable build, dated 4th October 2000, was released by Hidden Palace on 24th December 2009.
- Baldur's Gate (Oct 4, 2000 prototype) — Hidden Palace
- Announcement of the prototype release — Hidden Palace
- Discussion of the release on the Lost Levels forums
- Footage of the PS1 version — uploaded by PtoPOnline
- Discussion on NeoGAF forums, 2009
- Discussion on Resetera forums, 2019
