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The Hobbit (Mac OS Classic)
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Developer:
Beam Software
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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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| Mac OS Classic | The Hobbit |
| Pinball | The Lord of the Rings |
| Game Boy Advance | The Fellowship of the Ring • The Hobbit • 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 |
| Wii U | LEGO The Hobbit |
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