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Dungeons & Dragons is an American animated television series based on TSR's Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. [1] It is a co-production of Marvel Productions and TSR, with the Japanese Toei Animation. It ran on CBS from 1983 through 1985 for three seasons, for a total of twenty-seven episodes.
The Dungeons & Dragons Computer Labyrinth Game is an electronic board game, representing a dungeon with a dragon residing in it. The computer randomly places 50 walls throughout the board, and then two players compete to hinder each other as they try to advance, while searching each room for the treasure. [2]
Even as TSR published the first version of Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, several companies were already making fantasy-themed miniatures, notably Der Kriegspielers Fantastiques, which had just produced a line of miniatures based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, [1] and Jack Scruby's The Soldier Factory.
The release prompted another game designer, Daniel Proctor, to write and release Labyrinth Lord in 2007, a more complete retro-clone of the 1981 version of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set and its accompanying Expert Set. The following year, Finch announced the release of Swords & Wizardry, a retro-clone of the original Dungeons & Dragons game.
The Dungeons & Dragons Computer Fantasy Game was released in the fall of 1981. [3] Mattel stated that the game immediately sold out, setting it apart from some of Mattel Electronics' more well-known sports-themed handhelds. [4]
France was hit by the role-playing wave in the mid-1980s, as seen by the translations into French of Dungeons & Dragons in 1983 (first role-playing game to be translated), Call of Cthulhu in 1984, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in 1986 and RuneQuest in 1987, and by original products such as its first role-playing game Ultime épreuve (Jeux actuels ...