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Navigate to The Elder Scrolls Online product page in the Xbox Store to download and install the game. Launch the game and create a free ESO account at the login screen. Note: In order to download and play The Elder Scrolls Online on Xbox One, you need approximately 80GB of free hard drive space on your console and an Xbox Live Gold account. A Basic Installation Guide for dosbox and elder scrolls arenaThings you might need:Dosbox site: Scrolls aren. August 17 – August 30. The Free Play Event is now complete! You can keep exploring Tamriel and continue your Gates of Oblivion adventure by purchasing the game via the links below. For the continent called Arena, see Tamriel. The Elder Scrolls: Arena is a single-player role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Softworks in March 25, 1994. Arena is the first installment The Elder Scrolls action/adventure RPG fantasy video game series, taking place during the ten years of the Imperial Simulacrum of the Third Era. Arena was one of the largest games created at the time.
Description of The Elder Scrolls: Arena
One of the most all-encompassing RPGs ever created didn't succeed commercially due to hefty hardware requirements for its time. Nine man years in the making, Arena heralds a new level of RPGs: 3D gameworld with realistic weather effects, cool spellcasting system where you can create thousands of spells,and best of all -- 8 million kilometers of terrain to explore on your quest to find the Staff of Chaos.
You can ignore the main plot and just do what you want, e.g. steal from houses at night and take on side quests. A truly 'epic' game that deserves to be on every RPGer's shelves, despite repetitive dialogues, awkward interface, and tough battles.
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Sa'jitz2020-04-10-6 points
This Khajiit has been try to play on mobile any advice?
criminalscum2019-07-074 points
Have you heard of the high elves?
Matty2018-11-161 point
Loved this when it came out, though I never managed to make much progress beyond running around and killing rats.
Unfortunately, I'm getting a 404 error when I try to play online.
Thanks. Love the website.
admin2018-11-162 points
Restored the game files
EldritchNexus2018-11-163 points
How are Arena and Daggerfall not abandonware anymore? Bethesda released them as freeware years ago.
dat one kid on windows xp2018-07-171 point
the game f***ing freezes after that ghost woman talks to you at the beggining... sh**!!!
the game does look awesome though... it probs my terrible computer.
Bobs20182018-04-160 point
internet version c drive is not mounted
JKJKJKJKJK2017-08-143 points
It is the best game ohhhhhhh yeeeeeaaaaa
MrGhostRider3802017-07-020 point
I like it.
oplenti2016-12-18-3 points
the good old bugger scrolls....
if you can get past the terrible bugs, the fact that sometimes you'll have to let go some quests you can't finish, then this is a great game. honestly, do the main quest, and that'll be okay. less pain in the ass....
yeeboi2016-05-214 points
dosbox says i need a floppy disk
IDIO MONTOYA2016-01-28-1 point
and,hey, you, andre, it doint work without the sound really, but it sstill fun to play without any of that sound (uyou dsoint need it)!
IDIO MONTOYA2016-01-280 point
amazing hoiw i just so hapopened to be plaing that old game againand then i wander into here this here abandonware site and it the best ! what a coinidents!!
Isaac D.2016-01-111 point
This is my favorite game in the whole series, and I wish that TES V was more like it.
Crimson 98702015-10-110 point
One of the best games I've ever played!!!!!!!
aNDRE2015-05-021 point DOS version
mr SHAITAN start the game in dosbox by 'arena.bat'. with this sound works.
aNDRE2015-04-290 point DOS version
MR.EL fighting is after combat mode: press a, now you can move mouse after press right button.
Jake2014-12-310 point DOS version
First non turn-based CRPG game I ever enjoyed, and played it for hours. Sound effects were excellent, first time I encountered a vampire I nearly jumped out of my seat before I even saw it. IMO rendered nearly unplayable in contrast to Daggerfall which was far better, despite the slightly smaller scope of the game and prevalent bugs. Limited continuity in the huge scope of the world (pretty sure it is impossible to walk from one town to the next etc) limited immersion, honestly I think it was simply too ambitious for it's time. Other then that, an awesome dungeon crawler, and amazing what they were able to do without a real 3-D engine.
GoodOldPlayer2014-10-103 points DOS version
If you want to play this game, I suggest you go to this download:
http://wiwiki.wiwiland.net/?title=Arena_:_ArenaSetup_EN
It contains all the patches (including the Special Edition), fixes the sound problem and as soon as you are done installing it, you can play right away.
FYI: By left-clicking and moving the mouse, you swing your sword and the arrow keys move your character.
Mr. El2014-09-300 point DOS version
I cant figure out the controls!! mainly how to attack. help?
MORTREDOR2014-08-312 points DOS version
I found the install file, but now I am having GEN123's problem.
MORTREDOR2014-08-31-1 point DOS version
Which file do I run? This is the first game of this type that I have ever tried, and the dosbox tutorial I read said to read the documentation that came with the game, but the readme i found in the zip didn't have the information.
Maud2014-08-28-1 point DOS version
Any other games like this? Undercroft is Somewhat similar, but the story is tiny compared to Arena.
shaitan2014-08-141 point DOS version
I got a sound problem : I can't hear any sound or music in this game. does anyone knows How I can fix it ?
gen1232014-06-100 point DOS version
every time i attempt to install it says 'can only install from floppy disk'. help i really want to play this
Zyyz2013-11-13-2 points DOS version
Skyrim sucks in comparison to the rest of the series of TES. Simple as that. (IMO!)
FourTwentyNoscope2013-07-250 point DOS version
@Mmike If you're using DOSBox, turn your CPU cycles up. That should fix the lag problem.
30222013-07-210 point DOS version
Awesome, perhaps even revolutional game, but after 'few' (perhaps 40) gaming hours you will find that the big computer generated world is stereotypical, so the number of fun is not adequate to the game space. The game was hard to run even on the old computers in his time... but still it has been one of the best games.
Mmike2013-07-190 point DOS version
Anyone having lag issues?
ThriveDev2013-05-230 point DOS version
Awesome game!
joe2013-04-07-1 point DOS version
this game is awesome rpg in its time but skyrim hit gaming history
Darren2012-12-110 point DOS version
The first in a long line of greatness.
youtube.com/fishwrabies2012-01-280 point DOS version
The awesome great great great granddaddy of Skyrim.
jela2011-12-200 point DOS version
the character in the screenshots look like chuck norris. hehe. too bad I didn't had this game as a kid
12011-12-070 point DOS version
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Since Arena doesn't run in windows but in Dos, there's also a emulator for windows you can download named 'Dos Box'.
Since there's also a Mac version of Dos Box at emulation.net, it should be possible to play Arena on a Mac.
But when I tried to open Dos Box (keep in mind that it requires 10.3) the programm opened the terminal.
Now I would really like to play Arena but I haven't got a clue to how to use the terminal to start it. java script:emoticon(':-?')
I wonder wether anyone else has tried it and did succeed.