Old school computer game....

[azathoth777]

I don't know what made me think of this, but....
When I was a kid(about 20 years ago) I use to play a game for the TRS-80 Color Computer(Goddamn I'm old!)called Dungeons Of Daggorath. It was a first-person dungeon-crawling type RPG. The first I ever played, and it got me hooked. I played that thing every chance I got. Within a year I was playing D&D(yes, what a nerd I was) with my friends older brother and some kids he knew. RPGs are still my favorite type of game.
Just curious if any of the other old folks here remember if they ever played this game....

I found this screenshot...
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y85/azathoth777/DaggorathScreenshot.jpg

[Manic1511]

oh man for someone who is just about to turn 20 (me) i totally remember this game..then again i am a gamer =P

[Vodstok]

never played that one myself, but i too come from the land of d&d nerddom.

my first real exposure to rpgs on the computer (outside of sword of vermillion on the genesis) was a bundle that came with Azure Bonds, Dark Queen of krynn, Pool of radience, and i think pools of darkness.

I have since lost any sense of an attention span and pretty much onl;y play fps games.

Would LOVE some good old fashioned D&D sessions though. I miss sitting in smoke filled rooms swilling beer and pummeling my friends with swarms of sahaugin... ahh, the good old days.

[azathoth777]

Originally posted by Vodstok
Would LOVE some good old fashioned D&D sessions though. I miss sitting in smoke filled rooms swilling beer and pummeling my friends with swarms of sahaugin... ahh, the good old days.

I know the felling. I often long for the days of paper-and-pencil playing. I still have most of my D&D books and dice, but no one to play with. How sad.....

[Vodstok]

mine are mostly packaged up and in storage... i still ahve over 30 boxed sets and probably 50+ books for AD&D, battletech, shadowrun, rifts, Vampire....

I miss them. Once we get a bigger house and i get a real office, they are all going up in a big bookshelf.

[lovecraft]

Wow, this brings me back. i have D&D, Vampire the masquerade, Battletech, and something called Car Wars. And alas everyone is too cool to play them with me.

Nerds of the Forum unite!

[lovecraft]

Does anyone else remember pure text games from Commodore 64 ( i think that was the system) I had a Dracula game where you wake up in a room in his castle and have to escape and I also had some pirate game, but I don't remember much about it. I think Steve Jackson made them.

Ah, we have come so far...

[azathoth777]

Originally posted by lovecraft
Does anyone else remember pure text games from Commodore 64 ( i think that was the system) I had a Dracula game where you wake up in a room in his castle and have to escape and I also had some pirate game, but I don't remember much about it. I think Steve Jackson made them.

Ah, we have come so far...

I remember text games, but I was never a big fan. I used to play so online in the early days of the internet.

I could still play AD&D if I felt like gaming with the people at my local comic shop. But something about being 30 and spending a Saturday afternoon in the comic shop playing AD&D......that's just not a nerd line I'm willing to cross.

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by azathoth777
I remember text games, but I was never a big fan. I used to play so online in the early days of the internet.

I could still play AD&D if I felt like gaming with the people at my local comic shop. But something about being 30 and spending a Saturday afternoon in the comic shop playing AD&D......that's just not a nerd line I'm willing to cross. being 30 playing ad&d in a comic shop with teenagers...

May as well get a tatoo on your forehead that says "I hate sex and love masturbating"

i would love to play, but i have generally enjoyed playing wioth people around my age, and at someone's house. Playing in a public setting just never sat well with me. Its like, I embrace my nerdishness, but i dont quite need that level of advertising. I feel like i should get beat up for lunch money, or get laughed at by teenage cheerleaders...

[azathoth777]

Originally posted by Vodstok
I love masturbating, get beat up , get laughed at by cheerleaders...

It'd be like High School all over again, and no one wants that.

I have no problem being nerdy either, but I agree that that level of public display of it is not needed. I'd feel too self conscience to enjoy myself. Playing with peers at someones house is just more comfortable and relaxing.

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by azathoth777
It'd be like High School all over again, and no one wants that.

I have no problem being nerdy either, but I agree that that level of public display of it is not needed. I'd feel too self conscience to enjoy myself. Playing with peers at someones house is just more comfortable and relaxing. Exactly. in public, people who would say "Live and let live" to you if you complained about other people would tell you to grow up.

And i dont need that crap when my ranger/mage is about to make a saving throw vs death...

[azathoth777]

Originally posted by Vodstok
And i dont need that crap when my ranger/mage is about to make a saving throw vs death...

A 1... goddamn it.
At least it's not LARPing(Live Action Role Playing). Getting all dressed up and acting the parts....those people are nuts.

[knife_fight]

Originally posted by azathoth777
A 1... goddamn it.
At least it's not LARPing(Live Action Role Playing). Getting all dressed up and acting the parts....those people are nuts.

"lightning bolt! lightning bolt!"

check this nerdy shit out (http://www.nerolarp.com/GalleryTOC.htm)

when I was in a band we would play AD&D paper-style while we were going down the road. it passed the time and none of us were too cool to play. it was fun and now I wish I could find other people my age to play with.

[Burning in Hell]

Well, I'm 34, and I have been playing D&D for ... 22 years with the same guys! Of course we nearly don't play as often as we used to, but we still play once a month or so.

And believe me, there are more than nerds who play this game! We used to be metalheads, and still are I guess, the kind of teens who would play countless pranks, beat up skaters and jocks AND play D&D for thirthy straight hours over the week-end :D

Ah, the good old days...

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by Burning in Hell
Well, I'm 34, and I have been playing D&D for ... 22 years with the same guys! Of course we nearly don't play as often as we used to, but we still play once a month or so.

And believe me, there are more than nerds who play this game! We used to be metalheads, and still are I guess, the kind of teens who would play countless pranks, beat up skaters and jocks AND play D&D for thirthy straight hours over the week-end :D

Ah, the good old days... Trust me... no matter who you are or what you do, if you play rpgs, you are a nerd. Accept it. embrace it and enjoy it. I married a hot, smart woman. i make a ton of money. i play bass (also a metalhead), huge into Nine inch Nails, was generally well liked by everyone in high school, friends with pretty much everyone i knew. Graduated and was frinds moslty with people many years my senior, for all intents anfd purposes, through high-school and after lived a bit of a "cool kid" life. But i was and still am a hardcore nerd. I just didnt give up the ability to be socially adept like so many of my dork cousins.


Nerd and geek are just fine, they are badges of honor.

Dork, spaz, dweeb.... these are the moronic losers who get WAY to into the games and have 4 gig collections of porn, yet somehow still have no idea what parts make up a woman.

[Burning in Hell]

Originally posted by Vodstok
Trust me... no matter who you are or what you do, if you play rpgs, you are a nerd. Accept it. embrace it and enjoy it.

Well, if everyone who plays D&D is a nerd, then I guess I must be one!!!

But I've always believed that there are two main types of people playing D&D : Nerds and Weirdos. That much was evident last year when I attended a live roleplaying week-end : nearly everyone there was either your typical nerd or a punk, goth, metalhead or weird looking-type.

As for myself, I hardly fit the nerd description : I absolutely hate Star Trek, totaly sucks at computers, have long black hair and listen to metal, particularly extreme metal.

Oh well, perhaps there's no escaping the Nerd label. As long as no one says it to my face, except if they run faster than me ...

[ManchestrMorgue]

Originally posted by lovecraft
Wow, this brings me back. i have D&D, Vampire the masquerade, Battletech, and something called Car Wars. And alas everyone is too cool to play them with me.

Nerds of the Forum unite!

hehe Car Wars. I still have that one. Just pulled it out and looked at it about a month ago.

Also had Wabbit Wampage. Lost the instructions though - wish I could remember how to play it.

[circusfreak]

I would love to get hold of Larn again. I played that for hours on an ancient 286 with a green screen. Once I had sussed out how to edit the thing, I changed all the names of the monsters to people out of bands I liked. So you got stuff like "Killed by Joe Perry with a blade on level5".

[Vodstok]

I miss HOL (Human Occupied Landfill)

Rolling up characters was almost more fun than playing.