Eye of the Beholder (video game)

Eye of the Beholder
Eye of the Beholder
	MS-DOS/Amiga cover art by Jeff Easley
Developer(s)	Westwood Associates
Publisher(s)	Strategic Simulations, Inc.; Capcom (SNES); Sega (Sega CD); Pony Canyon, Inc. (PC-98);
Director(s)	Brett Sperry
Designer(s)	Phillip W. Gorrow; Eydie Laramore; Paul S. Mudra; Joseph Bostic;
Artist(s)	Rick Parks; Aaron E. Powell; Joseph B. Hewitt IV;
Writer(s)	Eydie Laramore
Composer(s)	Paul S. Mudra; PC-98:; Yuzo Koshiro; Shinji Hosoe; Sega CD:; Yuzo Koshiro; Motohiro Kawashima;
Platform(s)	MS-DOS, Amiga, Sega CD, SNES, PC-98
Release	1991 (MS-DOS, Amiga); 1992 (PC-98); April 1994 (SNES); 4 May 1994 (Sega CD);
Genre(s)	Dungeon crawler
Mode(s)	Single-player

Eye of the Beholder is a role-playing video game for personal computers and video game consoles developed by Westwood Associates. It was published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. in 1991,^[3]^[4] for the MS-DOS operating system and later ported to the Amiga, the Sega CD and the SNES. The Sega CD version features a soundtrack composed by Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima.^[5]^[6] A port to the Atari Lynx handheld was developed by NuFX in 1993, but was not released.^[7] In 2002, an adaptation of the same name was developed by Pronto Games for the Game Boy Advance.

The game has two sequels, Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon, also released in 1991, and Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor, released in 1993. The third game, however, was not developed by Westwood, which had been acquired by Virgin Interactive in 1992 and created the Lands of Lore series instead.

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^ Yuzo Koshiro [@yuzokoshiro] (16 October 2021). "Any genre. FYI about two-third of the Eye of the beholder's music are Motohiro @mvorak's remarkable compositions. My songs are maybe five give or take" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
^ Atari Lynx Catalog. Atari. 1993. p. 2.