Wasteland (video game)
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Wasteland is a role-playing video game developed by Interplay Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1988.[5] The first installment of the Wasteland series, it is set in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic America destroyed by a nuclear holocaust generations before. Developers originally made the game for the Apple II and it was ported to the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS. It was re-released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux in 2013 via Steam and GOG.com, and in 2014 via Desura. A remastered version titled Wasteland Remastered was released on February 25, 2020, in honor of the original game's 30th anniversary.
Wasteland | |
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Developer(s) | Interplay Productions Remastered inXile Entertainment Krome Studios |
Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts Remastered inXile Entertainment (Win, OSX, Lin) Xbox Game Studios (Xbox One) |
Director(s) | Brian Fargo |
Producer(s) | David Albert |
Designer(s) | Ken St. Andre Michael A. Stackpole Liz Danforth |
Programmer(s) | Alan Pavlish |
Artist(s) | Todd J. Camasta Bruce Schlickbernd Charles H. H. Weidman III |
Writer(s) | Ken St. Andre Michael A. Stackpole |
Composer(s) | Edwin Montgomery (remaster)[2] |
Series | Wasteland |
Platform(s) | Apple II Commodore 64 MS-DOS Remastered Microsoft Windows OS X Linux Xbox One |
Release | January 2, 1988[3][4] Remastered February 25, 2020 |
Genre(s) | Role-playing |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Critically acclaimed and commercially successful, Wasteland was intended to be followed by two separate sequels in the 1990s, but Electronic Arts dropped claims of Fountain of Dreams being a sequel and Interplay's Meantime was canceled. The game's general setting and concept inspired Interplay's 1997 role-playing video game Fallout and the Fallout series. Decades later, inXile Entertainment, founded by the game's director Brian Fargo, released two proper sequels: Wasteland 2 (2014) and Wasteland 3 (2020).