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''Dragonriders of Pern'' is a 1983 video game release by Epyx that is based on Anne McAffrey's famous book series of the same name. The player acts as the ruler of a "weyr", a mountaintop redoubt where the people of the planet Pern raise dragons in order to protect against periodic invasions of deadly "thread" that falls from a nearby planet. The game is primarily a strategic one, in which the user attempts to form alliances, but it also includes an action portion where the player controls a dragon in an attempt to destroy falling "thread". The game was one of several adaptations of the ''Pern'' story made in the 1983 time frame, which also included a board game and arcade game. This version, for the Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64, was considered a forerunner of similar games based on novels, although similar adaptations did not become common at the time. ==Storyline== In the novels, the world of Pern is in a semi-feudal state of development. The majority of the population belongs to one of many "holds", which are similar to principalities or duchies. Pern is at the mercy of the "thread", a deadly microorganism native to another planet in the Pern solar system. When the two planets periodically approach each other in orbit every few hundred years, the organisms form into long strings of thread that cross the gap through space. The "weyrs" are dedicated to the raising and training of dragons, whose fiery breath is the only effective weapon against the thread. Only the combined forces of many weyrs could hope to deal with the thread on a global basis, but internecine political battles between the holds, weyrs, and powerful guilds prevent any sort of global response. The first book, ''Dragonflight'', is primarily focused on the efforts of Benden Weyr's new dragon master to form an alliance to fight the soon-to-arrive thread. It has been hundreds of years since the last approach of the two planets, and the planet is ill-prepared for its return. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dragonriders of Pern (video game)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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