RSS Feed
Twitter
Before I get started, I have just one thing to say: you’re a bunch of sadists. All of you. I compiled a list of half a dozen of the deadliest old school Dungeons & Dragons adventures to ever see print, and you not only ate it up but shared it with your buddies and gave it […]
Posts Tagged ‘AD&D’
Six More Absurdly Difficult D&D Adventures (That Are Not Tomb of Horrors)
May 7th, 2017 
Michael Crisman 
Posted in News, Reviews 
Tags: AD&D, adventure, books, d&d, david cook, dungeon, dungeons & dragons, forgotten temple of tharizdun, gary gygax, greyhawk, hardest, harold johnson, hidden shrine of tamoachan, jeff leason, magazine, mike shel, module, monte cook, most difficult, mud sorcerer's tomb, ravenloft, temple of death, vecna lives, vecna reborn 
2 Comments »
Revenge of the License: Five NES Games That Missed the Point
July 24th, 2016 Michael Crisman I love licensed NES games. I love the sound they make as I yank them out of my system and hurl them against the wall. The relentless plundering through the morass in search of something worth playing and finding the occasional surprise is always delightful, and why I keep coming back to this column over […]
Share this:
Posted in Comp, Console, News, Nintendo, Sega Tags: 8-bit, activision, AD&D, c64, dos, FCI, ghostbusters, hal, heroes of the lance, ljn, master system, nes, new ghostbusters II, Nightmare on Elm Street, nintendo, nintendo entertainment system, pack-in-video, Pool of Radiance, rambo, rambo first blood part II, rare, revenge of the license, sega, SSI, star trek, star trek the next generation No Comments »
Icewind Dale Takes R.A. Salvatore’s Story in New Direction – June 29th 2000 – Today in Video Game History
June 28th, 2016 Carl Williams Icewind Dale is an exemplary example of how to port a rich book to a computer game. The world in the book is a detailed, living, entity. How do you port that to a video game? Simple. You don’t. That is what Black Isle Studios did with Icewind Dale when they ported it to PC’s […]
Share this:
Revenge of the License: Dungeon Hack
September 13th, 2015 Michael Crisman You’d have been hard-pressed to find a company flying much higher in the early 90’s than TSR. Between the recently-published 2nd edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (aka: the best-selling pen-and-paper RPG in history) and a slew of hit computer games produced by SSI which used the AD&D License, TSR’s market position was so perfect […]
Share this:
Posted in Comp, News Tags: ad, AD&D, dos, dungeon hack, dungeons and dragons, Forgotten Realms, pc, revenge of the license, SSI, TSR No Comments »
SSI Gold Box D&D Veterans Return to their Roots with Tactical Simulations Interactive
March 20th, 2015 Carl Williams Some of the biggest names in role playing games on computers have regrouped to do what they do best, create turn based strategy role playing games that rock. Okay, a little history lesson for those that do not know what I am talking about with the title of this article. The Strategic Simulations Inc (SSI) […]
Share this:
Posted in Comp, News Tags: AD&D, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Champions of Krynn, Countdown to Doomsday, Curse of the Azure Bonds, David Shelley, Death Knights of Krynn, Forgotten Realms, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Gold Box, kickstarter, Matrix Cubed, Paul Murray, Pool of Radiance, Pools of Darkness, retro, retro game, retrogaming, role playing game, rpg, Savage Frontier, Secret of the Silver Blades, Seven Dragon Saga, Spelljammer, SSI, Strategic Simulations Inc, Tactical Simulations Interactive, TSI, TSR, Unlimited Adventures No Comments »
New Game: Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition Now Available for Android
November 2nd, 2014 Carl Williams The AD&D Forgotten Realms classic, Icewind Dale, is back in an all new Enhanced Edition on Steam and Google Play. New content and new design await you!
Share this:
Posted in Comp, News, Portables Tags: AD&D, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, android, apple, baldurs gate, Beamdog, directors cut, google play, IAP, Icewind Dale, in app purchase, In App Purchases, mac, macintosh, pc, re-release, retro, retro game, retrogaming, role playing game, rpg, steam, windows, wizards of the coast No Comments »
Revenge of the License: AD&D Heroes of the Lance
September 14th, 2014 Michael Crisman Admit it, you knew this was coming. Maybe not today, maybe not next week, but you knew, at some point, I was going to dig into the hog waller. If that’s what you’ve been waiting for, retro gaming fans, then today’s your lucky day. Rejoice. Clap your hands. Give the ol’ banjo a tune-up. Because […]
Share this:
Posted in Comp, News, Nintendo Tags: action, AD&D, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, adventure, d&d, dragonlance, dungeons and dragons, FCI, heroes of the lance, natsume, nes, nintendo, nintendo entertainment system, pony canyon, revenge of the license, rpg, SSI, us gold 1 Comment »
New Game: Icewind Dale Coming to Android, iOS, Mac and PC with +1 Enhancements
August 31st, 2014 Carl Williams Previously we saw Baldur’s Gate, with enhancements, hit Android and now the same developers (Beamdog) are working on bringing Icewind Dale to Google’s mobile platform, among others. Wizards of the Coast have announced this version will be hitting Android, iOS, Mac and PC (presumably through Steam). This is the first time that the popular role […]
Share this:
Posted in Comp, News, Portables Tags: 2000, AD&D, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, android, apple, Beamdog, carl williams, google play, Icewind Dale, ios, ipad, iphone, itunes, macintosh, pc, retro, retro gaming magazine, role playing game, rpg, steam, windows, wizards of the coast No Comments »
