February 18th, 2005
Dungeon Master — 18 years on…
A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across the Dungeon Master Encyclopedia site whilst randomly surfing. It brought back some good memories of being completely hooked on this game when I was about 15 (16 years ago now). Whilst having a look through this site I noticed, to my delight, there was an OS X download. With great anticipation, tinged with “am I going to regret this?”, I downloaded the app.
i’m now hooked. Again.
Dungeon Master is just such a classic. If you’ve not played it before you probably won’t fully comprehend when i’m so enthusiastic about the game. It is pretty much perfect, in the same way Pacman is perfect — the gameplay is everything. Even when this was released, in 1987, the graphics weren’t all that great at all.
I had an Amiga, so my Atari ST owning friends were goign about this game for a couple of years before I could get my hands on it. When I did, I pretty much kissed goodbye to a couple of months of my life. Even now, when playing the game, I still remember the UI really well, or is it because the UI is so incredibly intuitive? The only stumbling block for me at the moment is the spells — I can only rememebr Health potion, Light and Fireball (note to self: print out spell list)
So, maybe it’s just me, but discovering and enjoying this game after soooo many years is really refreshing.
Who else played this? Was is really the most talked about computer game for a while?
I went to a newly-married friend’s house this year, and his wife couldn’t wait to show me this new game that she’d excitedly discovered and couldn’t stop playing. It was Dungeon Master.
Alas, I just can’t get into things with spells, potions and the like. Using computer hacks sci-fi/cyberpunk-stylee, now that’s a different thing!
wow
you reminded me of this classic I have also played for many months and was really living in the dungeon world of its own
it was great times of my childhood, along with eyes of beholder, wizardry and others
but the DM1 was the king, the gameplay is really the best
hmmm i am checking the DM encyclopedia now and it seems i am hooked again, omg i am going to play this night :))
thanks very much for sharing
btw try to play with 1 person only, quite hard at the beginning, but he will get all the experience points and will boost very quickly and will be expert in all the professions, quite funny than :)
and there’s also the java version of Chaos Strikes Back, hard as hell for me, never beaten even the first worms :))
I know what you mean about those worms in Chaos Strikes Back, and those massive rats! Nice rat meat though — fills you right up!
i downloaded this game a week ago and my girlfriend hates me playing it !!!
i used 2 play this all the time when i was younger
definetely the best game of its time
i even remembered the old 144 fireballs
!!!
scary stuff! but need 2 find map sites!!
Dude, this was the main game on my Atari that I played for YEARS!
I have that sinking feeling im about to fall backward in time and get swallowed up by it.
Wasnt Gothmog the best character name?
<sinks slowly into the abyss of DM>
I played this on my ST and Amiga when i was about 11/12 in 1987/88 and i was hooked but i never got passed level 9 as it was the giant rat level and just around the corner of the start of that level was a rat breeding room and i got scared togo round there and get eaten late at night lol but having just got the game again im now gonna batter ‘em good…i never got to play chaos strikes back so am looking forward to playing that and see how it matches up