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The Hobbit

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This page is for the 1982 text adventure. For the 2003 action-adventure game, see The Hobbit (2003).

The Hobbit
The Hobbit cover
Developers
Beam Software
Publishers
Melbourne House
Release dates
DOS 1982
Mac OS (Classic) 1987
Taxonomy
Series Middle-earth
The Hobbit on MobyGames
The Hobbit on Wikipedia
The Hobbit 1982
The Fellowship of the Ring 1985
The Shadows of Mordor 1987
J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth 1988
The Crack of Doom 1989
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I 1990
J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan 1990
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II 1992
The Fellowship of the Ring (2002) 2002
The Return of the King 2003
War of the Ring 2003
The Hobbit (2003) 2003
The Battle for Middle-earth (series)
The Lord of the Rings Online 2007
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest 2009
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North 2011
Lego Middle-earth (series)
Guardians of Middle-earth 2012
Middle-earth: Shadow (series)
Journeys in Middle-earth 2019
The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game 2019
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum 2023
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria 2023

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Mac OS
This game is not available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Mac OS (Classic)

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)


References