“I was just getting into Dungeons & Dragons and computer games at the time,” recalls Rob Daviau, “so it kind of blew my 12-year-old mind.” As chief restoration officer at Restoration Games, the veteran designer of Risk Legacy is currently working hard on Return to Dark Tower, a highly anticipated 21st-century bells-and-whistles sequel/remake whose creative team also includes Beasts of Balance designer Tim Burrell-Saward and Gloomhaven creator Isaac Childres.
The battle was joined… and I was victorious!”īy today’s standards, the backlit illustrations on the Tower’s slides and its 8-bit bleeps feel charmingly primitive - but in the early eighties it was impressively, enticingly state-of-the-art. Then, ahead of my opponent, I made my move. The computer kept track, giving me secret information: pictures, sounds, surprises. “In this amazing game, I had to find three keys, lay siege to the tower and defeat the enemy within,” intoned the grey-bearded, wild-eyed Welles.
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The creator of 1941 cinematic masterpiece Citizen Kane was chosen by game giant Milton Bradley to front its TV ad campaign for Dark Tower: an impressive, expensive, electronically enhanced tabletop fantasy experience which fired imaginations (and threatened parents’ bank balances) with its circular board and foot-high black plastic, computer-controlled rotating centrepiece. For many kids in 1981, the adventure started with Orson Welles.
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