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    Museum Robot
    • May 9, 2007
    • 5795
    #1

    Dungeons and Dragons VS Dark Tower

    Which was better for Milton Bradley’s The Dark Tower or Mattel’s Electronic Dungeons and Dragons? I’m sincerely asking because I’ve never played either. Not for lack of trying, mind you. I was ten when the fantasy craze started in the early 1980s, and I got swept up in it. I tried to play Dungeons and […]
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    • Earth 2 Chris
      Verbose Member
      • Mar 7, 2004
      • 32526
      #2
      Never had either, so I can't really help you there. I wanted to get into RPGs, and got the Mayfair DC Comics game for Christmas the year it came out. I never could get my friends to sit down long enough to set up a game. Loved the Sourcebooks though!

      My jam was Hero Quest. I had two sets of friends who were into it. I was happy to see the new verison at Game Stop a few months back.
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        • sprytel
          Talkative Member
          • Jun 26, 2009
          • 6545
          #3
          Dark Tower was an incredible game for the time. I can still remember all of its little musical cues and sound effects, all of these years later.

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            • MRP
              Persistent Member
              • Jul 19, 2016
              • 2043
              #4
              In terms of game play, Dark Tower blew the doors of the electronic D&D game, which I found to be almost unplayable. Neither compared to actually playing an rpg with friends because both had to follow a "script" of sorts which limited variety.

              The Dungeon board game (put out by TSR as well) came closest to emulating actual D&D at that time.

              -M
              "Opinion is the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding." -Plato

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                • J.B.
                  Guild Navigator
                  • Jun 23, 2010
                  • 2887
                  #5
                  Dark Tower and Risk were the board games my friends and I would play the most. As far as D & D, we only played the RPG; never tried Mattel's.

                  You are transparent; I see many things... I see plans within plans.

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                    • Bruce Banner
                      HULK SMASH!
                      • Apr 3, 2010
                      • 4332
                      #6
                      Dark Tower was a real marvel for its time. A great gaming experience.

                      Never played the Mattel D&D electronic board game, but I did play both of the Mattel Intellivision AD&D cartridges extensively.

                      PUNY HUMANS!

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                        • Sideshow Spock
                          valar morghulis
                          • Mar 8, 2005
                          • 2853
                          #7
                          Dark Tower was great, two of my friends had it and our gang played it quite a bit during our 80s teen D&D years. Plague!!

                          One of my aforementioned friends also had the electronic D&D game, but I don't remember it making much of an impression.

                          Restoration Games released a new version of Dark Tower a couple years ago, a crowd-funded production:

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