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Dungeon Master (video Game)
''Dungeon Master'' is a role-playing video game featuring a 2.5D, pseudo-3D First-person (video games), first-person perspective. It was developed and published by FTL Games for the Atari ST in 1987, almost identical Amiga and MS-DOS, PC (DOS) ports following in 1988 and 1992. ''Dungeon Master'' sold 40,000 copies in its year of release alone, and went on to become the ST's best-selling game of all time. The game became the prototype for the genre of the 3D dungeon crawlers with notable Video game clone, clones like ''Eye of the Beholder (video game), Eye of the Beholder''. Gameplay In contrast to the traditional turn-based game, turn-based approach that was, in 1987, most common, ''Dungeon Master'' added real-time combat elements (akin to Active Time Battle). Other factors in immersion were the use of sound effects to indicate when a creature was nearby, and (primitive) dynamic lighting. Abstract ''Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons'' style experience points and levels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FTL Games
FTL Games (Faster Than Light) was the video game developer, video game development division of Software Heaven Inc. FTL created several popular video games in the 1980s. Despite the company's small size, FTL products were consistently number-one sellers and received the highest critical acclaim and industry awards. FTL was founded by Wayne Holder in 1982. Holder started Software Heaven and FTL as its game division after founding Oasis Systems, which specialized in Spell checker, spell checking software. He hired Bruce Webster, with whom he graduated from high school, to head FTL. After Webster left FTL in 1984, Doug Bell (game designer), Doug Bell joined FTL and served as the Technical Director until FTL ceased operations in 1996. The games FTL released several games throughout its relatively short history. Most went on to become best sellers and some even set new standards for games of their genres. ''SunDog'' Holder and Webster co-designed FTL's first game, ''SunDog: Frozen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FM Towns
The is a Japanese personal computer, built by Fujitsu from February 1989 to the summer of 1997. It started as a proprietary PC variant intended for multimedia applications and PC games, but later became more compatible with IBM PC compatibles. In 1993, the FM Towns Marty was released, a game console compatible with existing FM Towns games. The "FM" part of the name means "Fujitsu Micro" like their earlier products, while the "Towns" part is derived from the code name the system was assigned while in development, "Townes". This refers to Charles Townes, one of the winners of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics, following a custom of Fujitsu at the time to code name PC products after Nobel Prize winners. The e in "Townes" was dropped when the system went into production to make it clearer that the term was to be pronounced like the word "towns" rather than the potential "tow-nes". History Fujitsu decided to release a new home computer after the FM-7 was technologically overcome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TRS-80 Color Computer
The RadioShack TRS-80 Color Computer, later marketed as the Tandy Color Computer and sometimes nicknamed the CoCo, is a line of home computers developed and sold by Tandy Corporation. Despite sharing a name with the earlier TRS-80, the Color Computer is a completely different, incompatible system and a radical departure in design and compatibility with its Motorola 6809E processor rather than the Zilog Z80 earlier models were built around. The Tandy Color Computer line started in 1980 with what is now called the Color Computer 1. It was followed by the Color Computer 2 in 1983, then the Color Computer 3 in 1986. All three models maintain a high level of software and hardware compatibility, with few programs written for an older model being unable to run on the newer ones. The Color Computer 3 was discontinued in 1991. All Color Computer models shipped with Color BASIC, an implementation of Microsoft BASIC, in ROM. Variants of the OS-9 multitasking operating system were availab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungeons Of Daggorath
''Dungeons of Daggorath'' is one of the first real-time game, real-time, first person (video games), first-person perspective role-playing video games. It was produced by DynaMicro for the TRS-80 Color Computer in 1983. A sequel, ''Castle of Tharoggad'', was released in 1988. Gameplay ''Dungeons of Daggorath'' was one of the first games that attempted to portray three-dimensional space in a real-time environment, using angled lines to give the illusion of depth. It followed the 1974 games ''Maze War'' and ''Spasim'', written for research computers, and the first 3D maze game for home computers, ''3D Monster Maze'', released in 1981. The game ''Phantom Slayer (computer game), Phantom Slayer'', which was released in 1982 for the Color Computer, also featured monsters lurking in a maze. While ''Daggorath'' was visually similar to these games, it added several elements of strategy, such as different kinds of monsters, complex mazes, different levels of visibility, and the use of diffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
