The Elder Scrolls: Arena (1994) Introduction in BEAR-O-VISION™ (MS-DOS) (4K)
5First Elder Scrolls! World huge, dungeons deep, magic wild like thunderstorm. Bear start weak, get strong, fight ghost, thief, big lizard. Game rough, but full of dream—like someone try make whole world inside little box. Bear get lost many times… and love it every time!
The Elder Scrolls: Arena, released in 1994 by Bethesda Softworks, is the first entry in the long-running Elder Scrolls series and laid the foundation for its vast, open-world RPG legacy. Originally conceived as a gladiatorial combat game, it evolved into a sprawling fantasy epic where players traverse the entire continent of Tamriel on a quest to rescue Emperor Uriel Septim VII from an evil sorcerer named Jagar Tharn. Featuring a massive procedurally generated world, real-time first-person combat, spellcrafting, guilds, and deep character customization, Arena was ambitious for its time, pushing technical boundaries and offering unprecedented player freedom. Though rough around the edges and demanding in its complexity, it became a cult hit and launched one of the most iconic franchises in gaming history.
What is BEAR-O-VISION™?
It's the visual quality standard preferred by bears, specifically rendered in VGA per-pixel at 4K resolution. It's among the highest quality output available for old games at the time of publish.
Dosbox output is OpenGL
Scaler is Normal3x
GLshader is crt-fakelottes-flat