[HN Gopher] Here be four bits of dragons: the Mattel D&D Compute...
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       Here be four bits of dragons: the Mattel D&D Computer Game and the
       TMS1100
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 70 points
       Date   : 2023-01-28 14:09 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
        
       | robgering wrote:
       | I played the Intellivision D&D game (briefly mentioned in the
       | article) when I was about six years old. Scared the bejeezus out
       | of me. I've never forgotten the creepy synth "music". Somehow the
       | Dracula game, which was ostensibly scarier, didn't bother me at
       | all, but the D&D synths left me shook.
        
       | gavinmckenzie wrote:
       | Oh man, I got this for Christmas when I was 13 and spent nearly
       | all of the holiday playing it. It was absolutely amazing, for 13
       | year old me.
       | 
       | While my game is long gone, I still have the little metal
       | figurines of the dragon and the treasure chest.
        
       | didntreadarticl wrote:
       | I had this when I was 8! It was actually really good. Quite
       | complicated and innovative.
       | 
       | You press on the square you want to go to and if there's a wall
       | in the way it makes a noise. Really felt like creeping around in
       | the dark. You had to really think about what was going on to not
       | lose track of where you were. There was an advanced mode with
       | 'doors' that were sometimes there and sometimes not.
       | 
       | There was a slow creepy 'you have woken the dragon noise' that
       | really let you know you were in trouble
        
       | mmastrac wrote:
       | Is it possible to read out the mask ROM on this chip without
       | physically decapping it?
        
         | classichasclass wrote:
         | (author) Unlikely, because the ROM contents are never emitted
         | on any of the chip's lines. Perhaps in the future we can image
         | chips without having to wreck them.
        
         | djmips wrote:
         | Made difficult with the Harvard architecture.
        
       | nappy-doo wrote:
       | I recently sold my copy of this game on BGG (35$?). Before
       | selling it, my kids and I booted it up, and played it a few
       | times, and it was still just as fun as I remember it being (which
       | was nostalgically great for me, but just meh for the kids).
       | 
       | I never bothered to open it up and see what was inside it. Cool
       | post.
        
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