THIS IS WHY YOU READ THE BOX, MAN.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/bards-tale/cover-art/gameCoverId,53744/

I got my copy at a Big! Lots in my US hometown years ago, and it had that same sticker.

I played the first BT an eon ago, though I don't remember anymore whether I played it on the Amiga or the Spectrum. Hmm ... that's it:

I played a demo of Bard's Tale on the Spectrum (probably from Your Sinclair) and feel in love with it, got an Amiga and snapped it up to avoid tape loading times :)

Spent ages playing it and then picked up the Clue Book to carry on after getting stuck for a while. Not sure if I ever completed it though.

I also had Bard's Tale 2 but I never played it :/

Been debating recently going back and playing through them though from looking at the graphics I'd probably play the emulated amiga version of a Dos version but as the same time I'd love GOG to release them as well.

Forget Bard's Tale, give us Dragon Wars!

I'm going to ramble again... I think it depends when you got your Amiga (or Atari ST). When A500 was still quite new, it did seem at least to this Amiga owner that for some odd reason Amiga got much less attention than Atari ST at least from some big companies. (For some reason at least inside Europe, Atari ST seemed to get much more attention from e.g. French game companies, while Amiga seemed a bit more popular among German developers).

For example, I seem to remember how Gauntlet (or was is Gauntlet 2) first came out only for Atari ST, with no Amiga version in sight. I was devastated, but luckily Rainbow Arts released "Garrison" which was a very good Gauntlet clone. At some point the official Gauntlet games were ported to Amiga, though.

Also at some point it seemed most Amiga games were just direct ports from Atari ST, ie. they used only 16 simultaneous colors, not 32 what Amiga would have been capable of. Not to mention games like "Bionic Commando" where the Amiga version lacked smooth scrolling apparently only because Atari ST couldn't do it passably either. So, Atari ST seemed to hold back the Amiga game development for some quite time, because most games were made for both platforms. Amiga-only games seemed rather rare at least to me.

And to add salt to the injury, it seemed the Amiga ST ports of early Amiga crown jewels, ie. Cinemaware games, were much enhanced on the ST. I've always wanted to see the ST version of e.g. "Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon", as at least in photos it seemed quite a different game than the original Amiga version. Just look how different the two versions look, heck even the C=64 version looks better than the Amiga!

http://www.mobygames.com/game/sinbad-and-the-throne-of-the-falcon/screenshots

But I guess by 1989 or at least 1990 it was quite apparent that Amiga was a superior gaming machine, but at that point PC started to gain momentum against both thanks to VGA graphics and Adlib/SB/Roland sound cards...

Oh and as for Bard's Tale... I think the only Bard's Tale game I've even tried to play was BT2 on Amiga. I think I stopped playing already in the first dungeon where I faced some spinners which made mapping the dungeon near impossible, because you never really knew where you were heading. And if I remember right, I encountered the old lady with snake-hair, which turned my party to stone or something... Too much for me to handle.

That reminds me the Amiga RPG I liked a lot, Phantasie III.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/phantasie-iii-the-wrath-of-nikademus

It seemed quite simple and easy game compared to real hardcore RPGs (no need to do any mapping either because you were moving in an overhead view of the dungeons all the time), but I enjoyed it a lot. I remember one distinct feature in P3 that your party members could lose limbs during fights. Everything else could be healed, but losing limbs apparently not, at least not that I know of.

I always wanted to play the other parts in Phantasie series, but never got around to it. For some reason Amiga didn't get a port of Phantasie 2, only P1 and P3. Atari ST apparently had all three. :(

I hadn't heard of Dragon Wars till yesterday when I was looking at Bard's Tale on Abandonia. Strangley enough they list it was part of the Bards Tale Trilogy. Cool that you can import your characters from BT into it.