The Quest Classic vs Orthanc

The Quest Classic - Celtic Doom is an expansion to The Quest Classic, a beautifully hand-drawn, immersive and enchanting world full of exciting challenges. After enabling the expansion, you can explore new areas and quests. However, if you don't have The Quest Classic, you can also play the expansion as a standalone game. This is the third in our Celtic trilogy, suitable for a character that's finished Celtic Queen and perhaps HOLV. Merlin has called you back to his Celtic world because he fears Prince Malin wants to usurp Queen Habren's throne. He's locked up Prince Malin's love, Lady Lotti, and wants the Prince dead by your hand. Meanwhile, Habren is tired of being queen and needs your help to regain control of the Wheel of Time. To access the new areas (not applicable if you are playing the expansion standalone), go to Matras harbor and talk to captain Verra, then select "Celtic Doom" as your travel destination. It is recommended to reach at least level 75 before trying to take on the challenges of this new expansion. The Quest Classic - Celtic Queen has been developed by Zarista Games (www.catacomber.com) and was adapted to iPhone by Redshift.

This game is a faithful recreation of "Orthanc", one of the first graphic dungeon crawl role-playing games developed for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's PLATO computer in the 1970s. The original was played on a PLATO terminal with a keyboard. (The PLATO version of "Orthanc" was inspired by "pedit5", which you can learn more about in Wikipedia.) The original PLATO terminals used plasma panels only capable of displaying orange and black. There is no sound. This implementation uses the touchscreen for all gameplay. You are an adventurer gaining experience and treasure by defeating monsters. Orthanc is easy to start but hard to put down.