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Bethesda offers “The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall” Free Download

Posted in Bethesda, Free Downloads by Elliott Back on July 10th, 2009.

If you enjoyed The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind or Oblivion, you might be one in a short list of people who want to travel back in time and experience a free download of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall. Here’s a screenshot of the original cover, and a couple screens from the game:

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The minimum requirements are for a DOS-age machine. In fact, you probably need to run the game in an emulator:

486DX2/66 MHZ, DOS 6.0, 8MB RAM, 50MB HD Space, 256-color VGA graphics card, Mouse, Soundcard (Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16, AWE 32, Pro Audio Spectrum, Ensoniq Soundscape, Gravis Ultrasound).

For some background, check out Wikipedia: The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall:

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is a first-person computer role-playing game (CRPG) for MS-DOS, developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1996. It is a sequel to the CRPG The Elder Scrolls: Arena and the second installment in The Elder Scrolls series. On July 9, 2009, it was made available for download on the Elder Scrolls website.