Eye of the Beholder (video game)

Eye of the Beholder
MS-DOS/Amiga cover art by Jeff Easley
DeveloperWestwood Associates
Publishers
DirectorBrett Sperry
Designers
  • Phillip W. Gorrow
  • Eydie Laramore
  • Paul S. Mudra
    Joseph Bostic
Artists
  • Rick Parks
  • Aaron E. Powell
  • Joseph B. Hewitt IV
WriterEydie Laramore
Composers
PlatformsMS-DOS, Amiga, Sega CD, Super NES, PC-98
Release
  • 1991 (MS-DOS, Amiga)
  • 1992 (PC-98)
  • April 1994 (Super NES)
  • 4 May 1994 (Sega CD)
GenreDungeon crawler
ModeSingle-player

Eye of the Beholder is a role-playing video game for personal computers and video game consoles developed by Westwood Associates. It was published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. in 1991, for the MS-DOS operating system and later ported to the Amiga, the Sega CD and the Super NES. The Sega CD version features a soundtrack composed by Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima. A port to the Atari Lynx handheld was developed by NuFX in 1993, but was not released. In 2002, an adaptation of the same name was developed by Pronto Games for the Game Boy Advance.

The game has two sequels: the first was Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon, which was also released in 1991; after Westwood Studios was acquired by Virgin Interactive in 1992, Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor was released in 1993. The third game, however, was not developed by Westwood, who instead went on to create the Lands of Lore series.