I finally found a way to play Dark Wizard on PC... that doesn't freeze up after the first level.
Finally, I can relive my childhood glory!
*hallelujah chorus in background*
I beat the second level with only one casualty. Unfortunately, it was my starting cleric, but it's still only one casualty. Pretty darned good, if I do say so myself. Much better then when I was a kid.
Dark Wizard.
Hallelujah!
I may not know what on earth Dark Wizard is but I do know about getting games you enjoyed in your childhood to work and then playing them.
Only the best hex-based strategy RPG ever. It's impossible to stop playing, the quests and storylines are engaging, the characters are full of character, the cutscenes only last a few minutes at worst, and only arrive once a map or so, the anime cutscenes are gorgeous and the voiceacting is great, especially when you consider the time this game came out, and the animated battles (if you have them enabled - I guess technically they're cutscenes that you can disable) are beautiful. There are secrets galore, replayability is through the roof even without random generation, the game will take you months to beat (longer than Tales of Symphonia), there are numerous upgrade paths for your hired army and wide variation among your summoned army, the leveling and experience system is perfection, random chance is not nonexistant but neither does it rule the whole game (in fact, it exists to the perfect degree), and the maps are
scenery porn (not the NSFW kind, don't worry; don't play games at work anyways, though).
Add a heaping spoonful of obscureness, a dash of atmospheric music, and a worldload of nostalgia, and boy. My life is complete.