greenween Posted September 23, 2014 Report Share Posted September 23, 2014 I remember this being the greatest board game of all time!! My best friend had it back in 82, I've found it in perfect condition on ebay for $200 and will have it soon!!! DeLorean and Justin 2 Quote "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Octagon Posted September 23, 2014 Report Share Posted September 23, 2014 Was that the game that looked like a pizza with Devil's Tower from Close Encounters of the Third Kind in the middle? greenween 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLorean Posted September 23, 2014 Report Share Posted September 23, 2014 Oh how wonderfully geeky!!! Justin and greenween 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Professor Posted September 24, 2014 Report Share Posted September 24, 2014 Wow, that looks like it could be electronic! The face of it looks like smoked plastic, does something light up within the tower? Reminds me of the Atari Spector Justin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted September 24, 2014 Report Share Posted September 24, 2014 I've never played Dark Tower, but looking at the box it says "A fantasy adventure born of electronic wizardry" and it certainly looks like the tower would light up. Seems like this would be a great game to try out sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLorean Posted September 24, 2014 Report Share Posted September 24, 2014 lol that DOES look like dark tower! It just needs the little flags. greenween 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted September 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 It was beautiful. Up to 4 players, the "tower" was electronic and would display battle stats, etc.Random encounters, dragons, finding keys and treasure!! I found a dos version years ago, not the same but it was pretty cool. DeLorean 1 Quote "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLorean Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Whoa. That sounds really cool greenween. What's the objective of the game? How does the electronic tower know what's going on in the game? I might have to get this. greenween 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted September 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 I'm excited to talk about it! Gotta work early, i'll be back tomorrow! DeLorean 1 Quote "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted September 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 (edited) So here's how I recall it. Each player had there own section of board they started with. The goal was to travel through each player's territory to gain a bronze, silver and gold key. Once you had the keys you could attack the "Dark Tower" for an epic battle to win! You would turn the tower on, enter how many players and it mostly did the rest. On your turn you move one space in any direction then press the corresponding key on the tower You had to buy soldiers and rations for them at bazzaars. When you moved you either had an encounter where you battle Brigands and the "tower" controlled the battle in a turn based fashion, Or got lost or the plague .The tower would display everything, complete with sound effects! Dragons, Gold, what's not to love!!! There was actually even more to the game than I described, just way ahead of it's time. Electronic D&D from way back!!! Edited September 28, 2014 by greenween DeLorean 1 Quote "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLorean Posted September 28, 2014 Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 You got me thinking I might want to play this game greenween. I went on youtube and found a great walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKOOkqDzVxM greenween 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted September 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 I was just watching this earlier to day! Thank you! Quote "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted September 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 How did you post this? Quote "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLorean Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 greenween, see the little greenish box just to the left of the dropdown box that says "Font" just above the upper left of where you type? Clicking on that will give you BBcode. Scroll down and select "media" then paste the youtube link. Or you can just code it out manually by pasting the youtube link between BBcode media and /media both placed in brackets. It's more complicated to explain than to actually do, and I don't know how to show you because if I type the code out it will show you a youtube video in its place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted October 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2014 "Embedding disabled by request", may explain it. I just saw it. Quote "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLorean Posted October 2, 2014 Report Share Posted October 2, 2014 Greenween, I think the "embedding disabled by request" is by request of the video owner on YouTube and not part of the embedding feature of the forums. I think in most cases you should be able to embed a video. Please let us know if you can't, because then there'd be something really wrong going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted October 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2014 I did it!!! After 30 years I bought Dark Tower!!! $250 but never played in great condition!!! I will share pics!!! Sabertooth and DeLorean 2 Quote "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLorean Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 LET'S SEE IT! greenween 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted October 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Soon, I ordered it off ebay, should have it Friday!!! DeLorean and Justin 2 Quote "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Looking forward to those pics greenween Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted October 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 Ouch, couldn't get to the Post Office in time, first thing tomorrow morning!!! Yo-Yo 1 Quote "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted October 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 here we go. Justin, DeLorean, Yo-Yo and 1 other 4 Quote "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted October 19, 2014 Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 Awesome photos Greenween! Have you had a chance to play the game with anybody yet? greenween, Yo-Yo and DeLorean 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted October 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 Not yet, didn't think to buy batteries! D'oh! My daughter is already in love with it and we will be doing a marathon tomorrow!!! Yo-Yo, DeLorean, RickR and 1 other 4 Quote "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted October 19, 2014 Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 Sounds like a cool game and an awesome weekend! Yo-Yo, DeLorean and greenween 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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