Watch and Weep: DragonStrike's 1993 Video Tutorial
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God.. I remember this. I owned this when i was an early teen. It was basically my introduction into the world of D&D. So much so when I played my first game of D&D I was kinda stunned there was no board and was perpelexed by all this card nonsense.
It was alright, but honestly, I didnt really have enough people to play it with or people with enough patience to try and figure it out.
I was so nostalgic, that I looked this up on amazon and the thing sells supposedly new for 250$ I might be nostalgic, but not 250$ worth.
There was also another game similar to this that came out at about the same time with a large playmat about the size of a round dinner table, divided into hexagons and had miniatures. The game played sort of like a primitive RTS. Would love to know what that game was called now.
It was alright, but honestly, I didnt really have enough people to play it with or people with enough patience to try and figure it out.
I was so nostalgic, that I looked this up on amazon and the thing sells supposedly new for 250$ I might be nostalgic, but not 250$ worth.
There was also another game similar to this that came out at about the same time with a large playmat about the size of a round dinner table, divided into hexagons and had miniatures. The game played sort of like a primitive RTS. Would love to know what that game was called now.
This was the perfect game (as an 8 year old, it was my older brother's) to just completely disregard the rules and screw around and have fun with. When my brother and his friends decided to actually play for real they would start out by watching the VHS (the video shown in that youtube link) and by the time it was over we would play for about 5 minutes and go play something else or go outside lol. I still think we have the box in our basement somewhere.
Recently, I showed this video to my college friends. It's very funny/quotable.
Recently, I showed this video to my college friends. It's very funny/quotable.
I... can't... stop... watching... too... much... cheese...
Seriously though, I watched the whole thing and I tought it was pretty funny, I laughed so hard in parts anyone else would cringe and slap their foreheads.
I think I'm in love with 80's and early 90's cheesiness.
Seriously though, I watched the whole thing and I tought it was pretty funny, I laughed so hard in parts anyone else would cringe and slap their foreheads.
I think I'm in love with 80's and early 90's cheesiness.
I've never cared for the AVGN. For some reason, his angry swearing just doesn't have the well placed impact that Yahtzee's does. Where I find Yahtzee funny, AVGN just gets on my nerves some. So this is new to me. Man, I love some bad movies like that...but I just couldn't watch it now.ArmorFan said:
My friend had this video. We were really impressed with the "graphics" at the time. The make-up-as-you-go rules hark back to D&D.
Dragonstrike was like a more subjective Hero Quest, of which we played much more.
Dragonstrike was like a more subjective Hero Quest, of which we played much more.
Here's a link to the Angry Video Game Nerd/Board James' review of the game. He focuses more on the actual game than just the video, but does make some comments on it.
http://www.cinemassacre.com/2009/05/27/board-james-2-dragonstrike/
http://www.cinemassacre.com/2009/05/27/board-james-2-dragonstrike/
No, and it's that attitude that brings a lot of problems down on fandom communities. Sometimes what is being said is BS, sometimes there is truth in it.The_root_of_all_evil said:
In this paticular case James Dallas Egbert III, who had a lot of various problems, really did get lost in a set of Steam Tunnels, and did commit suicide while being heavily involved in the game. It's also very true that the steam tunnels were being heavily used for early LARP and SCA type events.
As I explained, the crux of the matter is in how Gary Gygax handled the situation with the media though.
The problem with the "Mazes and Monsters" movie is that it's based on a novel (fiction) which was based on real events. Thus your seeing it through a lot of filters, and the movie got taken a lot more seriously than it should have due to being promoted as being based on a true story... which it was only very loosely, but a number of the facts in a very basic sense are pretty much correct.
The problem with the fandom community is that we tend to attack indiscriminatly and focus on specific aspects of a situation, rather than the big picture. Just because we're right on some things does not mean that the other side has no legitimate points, even if they are wrong over all.
Lumping books like "The Dungeon Master" or the things that derived from it (like this movie) into the same catagory as say Chich tracts (Jack Chic's stuff, like the Dark Dungeons Pamphlet) is a mistake, and arguably is one of the reasons why the contreversy lasted as long as it did, since the community was very much skirting around an issue that had some grounding in reality.
A more recent example of this is if you look up the "Vampire Clan" killings, or the allegations of Child Abuse through games like "Vampire The Masquerade", there are actual incidents connected to the whole thing where people have used the gaming groups as a doorway to get people to do other things.
Now, there is a lot of truth to the fact that someone has to be mentally unstable to begin with before something like an RPG or computer game will put them over the edge, and it's a valid point. Egbert for example was known to have a lot of problems. However the degree to which those problems must be present is debatable, as well as whether these forms of escapism can make those problems worse. As gamers we will argue "no, of course not" the other side is going to of course argue that they do. Being totally dismissive of the arguement however makes us look callous and arguably pours fuel on the flame to keep the arguements going.
