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Advanced D&D - Treasure of Tarmin
12-24-14 05:57 PM
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Treasure of Tarmin: Underappreciated classic game
This game is a classic but one with which most people, even serious gamers, aren't familiar. That is not surprising, given that this is an Intellivision game from the eighties. It is one of the earliest first-person perspective games I can recall and an early version of the dungeon and quest games that became popular mainly on PCs. Games like this were a new idea for me in those days: a game that would have an actual goal and ending. The Minotaur that guards the titular treasure is a progenitor of so many final bosses in more modern games.
I confess to having an affection for this game, having played it back when it was new on an Intellivision II console, and having been exposed to the real AD&D in my younger days. So it is tricky to look at it objectively, particularly through the haze of nostalgia. Obviously the graphics and sound are nothing compared to what you can achieve these days; my ratings for those two are a combination of this understanding along with an attempt to rate them in comparison with what one could do at the time. There is no real story here; you just keep going down levels, gathering treasure, weapons, and items and fighting monsters as you do, until you face the Minotaur and get the treasure, or until you die, which can happen easily here. There are four difficulty levels, and it can get hairy on the toughest level (you have the least starting strength and the most levels to get through before Minotaur time). Still, the game is not all that tough; the pace is pretty slow so you have plenty of time to think and plan, and monsters stand in one place so they can be avoided easily.
A few things that I really love about the game: the variety of monsters present; the "possessed" doors that you have to fight and which contain a goody for you if you win; the various potions and what they can do; the special book that allows you to change all treasure and w... Read the rest of this Review
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