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Biography of a Board Game 239.5 - Dark Tower
Ludology
English - December 06, 2020 17:00 - 14 minutes - 20.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 337 ratingsGames Leisure Video Games boardgames games Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Scott takes us through the history of Dark Tower, the legendary electronically-enhanced board game, and its modern spiritual successor, Return to Dark Tower. The story's twists and turns include every designer's worst nightmare: a huge company stealing a designer's idea and making it their own.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF A BOARD GAME
Wilderness Campaign, the Apple II game that helped inspire Dark Tower: https://www.mobygames.com/game/wilderness-campaign
Fan page with all sorts of info: https://well-of-souls.com/tower/index.html
Ruling on Burten v. Milton Bradley Co.: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/592/1021/1816724/
An article on the game's original release: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/23/business/new-bradley-game-tests-fickle-market.html
Dark Tower commercial with Orson Welles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3HVCwPp7j0