Every Video Game Based on The Hobbit
As one of the cornerstone pieces of fantasy literature, it's no surprise that there's so many video games based on The Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien's magnum opus has defined fantasy stories for decades, and its epic story provides source material to developers, who create games of all shapes and sizes. Some developers decide to retell The Lord of the Rings directly, like Traveller's Tales in LEGO Lord of the Rings, while others create their own stories about Middle-earth, like Monolith Productions' Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. The Lord of the Rings isn't the only Tolkien work with video games, though; The Hobbit has seen a fair few video game retellings too.
The Hobbit hasn't been quite as prolific as The Lord of the Rings in terms of inspiring video games, but it still has a pretty impressive track record. The family of video game adaptations of The Hobbit reaches across some 40 years of video game development, essentially connecting current times with the dawn of the video game industry. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum suggests that video games based on Tolkien's work are hardly a thing of the past, so one wonders if more adaptation of The Hobbit are on the horizon. If that's the case, there's a couple notable past games to take inspiration from.
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The Hobbit's very first video game adaptation was an illustrated text-based adventure game from Beam Software simply titled The Hobbit. It premiered in 1982 exclusively for the ZX Spectrum computer, but arrived on several other home computers later in the 1980s. Reception for The Hobbit was largely positive thanks to creative use of the source material; rather than adapting the book's text
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