Play Wizardry - The Knight Of Diamonds Online

Wizardry: The Knight of Diamonds came out for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, published by Sir-Tech. It was part of a wave of early console RPGs that brought complex, computer-style dungeon crawling to a living room audience, demanding more patience than the average platformer of the time.

You control a party of adventurers created in the first game, guiding them through a multi-level dungeon viewed one square at a time on the screen. Your main goal is to find the scattered pieces of the Knight of Diamonds' armor, which involves mapping the labyrinth by hand, fighting monsters in turn-based combat, and managing your party's health and spells carefully. The pacing is slow and deliberate, with a high difficulty that punishes careless exploration. Finishing a difficult floor and finally locating a piece of the armor gives you a genuine sense of hard-won accomplishment.