The Dungeons & Dragons Eye Of the Beholder series was one of the most popular PC adventure games that ever came out. It was one of the first really big ones and started what would be a for an extended time brand of other similar types of games by a number of companies. But Dungeons & Dragons was the leading.

The series was issued in three installments, simply called Eye Of the Beholder, Eye Of the Beholder II and Eye Of the Beholder III. There were bass speaker titles to each game but most people only remember them by their version number. In all honesty, the version number was whatever you needed as each game was so much not the same as the one before it.

The original Eye Of the Beholder was a very simple and rather primitive game graphically speaking. It came on one floppy disk, which will give you an idea of how simple it was. But in spite of the old fashioned graphics this game was as exciting as it came. Around every corner was a new challenge. The vague ideas in the game itself were so complex that if you do not were an expert at these games you couldn't cope with them without the hint as to book. Hint as to book sales were very big for all three games. Dice Coffin

The concept of EOB was simple. Your team of adventurers was handed a mission by the king of the land. You then decided on the mission and tried to complete it without getting wiped out. There were 12 levels in the game so it took a while to get through the whole lot, even with the hint as to book. The creatures were many, including skeletons, goblins and of course the evil Beholder himself, one very dangerous creature. In order to ultimately win the game you possessed to get by him, which was no easy task.

Eye Of the Beholder II was a massive improvement over the original. The graphics were a little cleaner and it was much harder. There were many more levels and the final battle itself, contrary to the evil dragon, was even harder than the one contrary to the beholder. In this game you also struggled with not just one beholder but many. Again, the hint as to book was a must for this game as the vague ideas in the game are mind boggling to say the least.

Unfortunately, Eye Of the Beholder III was a step back from number two. Yes, it was even more involved and the final battle was so hard that your hands could go numb trying to get through it, but the game itself was very ill composed. Things in it didn't appear to go very well together and many of the vague ideas seemed thrown together. Plus, they changed the battle mechanism. So that you can make it easier, they only made it significantly less interesting. The game itself just had no real heart to it. Oddly enough, it was the least popular of the series and after number three the Beholder series was done.