The Hobbit (Mac OS Classic)
The Hobbit |
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Developer: Beam Software This game has hidden development-related text. |
If modern games tend to be carefully stage-managed theme park rides, The Hobbit is a chaotic Westworld where the animatronics have achieved rudimentary self-awareness but no awareness of the story's plot.
Disk Name
Early in the source novel, Bilbo is caught testing his skills as a burglar on a group of trolls. Pressed to identify himself, he stammers, "a bur—a hobbit". The dimwitted trolls then wonder aloud what a "burrahobbit" is.
Someone had this scene in mind when the computer asked them to name the master disk for the game's 800K release. Before being renamed The Hobbit
, it was labeled Bur-a-hobbit
. (The initial name can be seen in the penultimate sector with a disk editor.)
The Lord of the Rings series
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Pinball | The Lord of the Rings |
Game Boy Advance | The Fellowship of the Ring • The Return of the King |
PlayStation 2 | Aragorn's Quest |
Wii | Aragorn's Quest • LEGO The Lord of the Rings |
Windows | LEGO The Lord of the Rings • Gollum |
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac OS X | LEGO The Lord of the Rings |
PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S | Gollum |
The Hobbit | |
Mac OS Classic | The Hobbit |
Game Boy Advance | The Hobbit |
Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation 2 | The Hobbit |
Windows | The Hobbit • LEGO The Hobbit |
PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, Mac OS X | LEGO The Hobbit |
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