Description
Dungeon Master is a role-playing game where the player selects four adventurers and descend into the depths of the dungeon. The gameplay is reminiscent of the 3D dungeon crawl type of role-playing games popularized by
Wizardry and
The Bard's Tale. However, unlike these games,
Dungeon Master features real-time combat, which requires the player to click on the opponent in order to execute an attack. Another notable aspect of the game is its growth system: instead of gathering experience points and leveling up, characters improve by repeatedly using the same action. Spellcasting involves selecting and combining symbols, which can be arranged as rune sequences. The game also allows the player to directly interact with objects in the game world through a point-and-click interface.
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Trivia
Apple IIgs version
The first port of
Dungeon Master was for the Apple IIgs. This port was done while the original Atari ST version was in development.
DOS version
The DOS version contains some individual marks: it has an extra animation at the end of the game and plays music in the starting screen.
Speaker
In the United States FTL released an sound adapter along with
Dungeon Master.
It connected to the computer's joystick port and plugged into any speaker or amplifier to add digital sound to the
Dungeon Master game. Built into the device was a 9-pin joystick adapter.
Awards
- Computer Gaming World
- October 1988 (Issue #52) - Special Artistic Achievement Award
- November 1989 (Issue #65) - Introduced into the Hall of Fame
- November 1996 (15th anniversary issue) - #49 on the "150 Best Games of All Time" list
- GameStar (Germany)
- Issue 12/1999 - #63 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking
- Power Play
- Issue 01/1989 - Best Role Playing Game in 1988
Information also contributed by
Macintrash,
PCGamer77,
Rantanplan,
The Real DJ and
Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe.
