Bethesda Softworks
Announces
10th Anniversary of The Elder Scrolls Series
Month-Long Celebration Includes Giveaway,
Free Copy of The Elder Scrolls: Arena
April 5, 2004 (Rockville, MD) - Bethesda Softworks® is proud to announce the 10th anniversary of its award-winning RPG
series, The Elder Scrolls®, and will be celebrating the
event over the next month on the official Elder Scrolls web
site: www.elderscrolls.com.
The series, which began in 1994, helped usher in the resurgence
of computer role-playing games and the series as a whole has been
played by millions of gamers around the world and won hundred of
awards.
Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series pioneered open-ended worlds
and freeform gameplay, where players could go and do whatever they
wanted. The series began in 1994 with the release of Arena™,
and continued with Daggerfall® in 1996 and Morrowind® in 2002. In addition, Bethesda released two spin-off products: An
Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire™ -- an action game released
in 1997, The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard® -- an
adventure game released in 1998, and The Elder Scrolls Travels™ -- a series of games released for mobile phones in 2003.
"We're incredibly excited to reach this milestone. With each
game, we try to create something unique that we'd love to play,
and it's great to have an audience that shares that passion with
us," said Todd Howard, executive producer for The Elder
Scrolls series. "The first decade of The Elder Scrolls has meant a lot to video games and gamers, and we hope the second
decade will mean even more."
The anniversary will be marked by an updated section on The
Elder Scrolls series as well as an Elder
Scrolls Giveaway, featuring tons of prizes including Elder
Scrolls memorabilia, original artwork, and great prizes from
Hip Gear, Logitech, Creative Labs, ATI, and NVIDIA.
In addition, for a limited time Bethesda is making the full version
of the original Elder Scrolls game - The Elder Scrolls:
Arena™ - available
for download. This classic RPG from 1994 allows players to explore
all of Tamriel as they seek to restore the power of the Emperor.
(A DOS emulator is also available for download that will allow gamers
to experience Arena on today's hardware and operating systems.)
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