Favorite D&D-Style Game?

[BydoEmpire]

Some of the best games on the Intellivision, imho, were the D&D-style games. What's your favorite?

 

Cloudy Mountain:

 

Treasure of Tarmin:

 

Thunder Castle (not really D&D, but it has the box art):

 

or Imagic's Swords & Serpents (close enough to D&D):

 

 

Back in the day I'd have said "Treasure of Tarmin." Way ahead of it's time, and a great game. I spent so much time going through those mazes. These days, however, it's a little hard to play since so many other dungeon crawlers have come down the pike. Cloudy Mountain is still a blast, so that gets my vote. How about you?

[mr_intv]

I voted for Tarmin although I enjoy all of the choices. Tower of Doom would have got my vote had it been on the list.

[BassGuitari]

I voted for Cloudy Mountain because it's the only one I can get through! I do like the exploratory room/tunnel aspect of it, too.

 

Thunder Castle is a great game...pretty difficult, though.

 

Treasure of Tarmin, I haven't really spent enough time with to be able to comment one way or the other. What I played of it was pretty rad, though! I should fire it up one of these days.

 

Swords & Serpents, I don't care for so much. It's okay, I just can't get into it.

 

Dark Tower is pretty awesome, too!

[patbb]

Treasure of Tarmin

 

Way ahead of its time...3D view, first person perspective.

 

Was it the first "first person shooter" ?

[bacteria]

I played Cloudy Mountain, Tarmin and Thunder Castle a lot when they came out originally, and enjoyed all three (also Tower too). Tarmin, even on the day, was very blocky and moved in a similar way as I recall, although I played the whole game through. Cloudy Mountain I think is the most playable of these games "today", so gets my vote!

[+cmart604]

I voted for Cloudy Mountain although I too enjoy all 5 (including Tower).

This was one genre that INTV did surprisingly well with, especially since many people think of sports games only when they think of Intellivision.

 

 

[BassGuitari]

 

Was it the first "first person shooter" ?

 

No. As far as home systems go, I think that would be Star Ship on the Atari VCS, from 1977. There were also others that predated Tarmin, notably Star Raiders.

 

Is Tarmin really a FPS though? It seems more like a 3D maze-type game (which, incidentally, also predate Tarmin) with combat elements.

[DickNixonArisen]

I think it makes sense that these game types fit the INTV. With the keypad being so important to the system and with it being marketed as a more intellectual choice, it's more of a system for tabletop-types. It had a decent strategy game (utopia), and the aforementioned DND titles. Basically, it kinda failed as an arcade-port machine, due to controls as much as anything, and so found this strength instead.

 

And since I'm the DM (I really am), what I say goes.