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Posted: Nov 24 2009 01:11 pm

Does anyone remember playing this as a kid?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Tower_%28game%29

I spent hours and hours at a friends house playing it. I adored this thing. I checked it out on ebay to see if I could pick one up for nostalgia's sake, but NIB sets run up to $250 (!). I did find one where the Tower doesn't work for ten bucks, and am thinking about buying it. The Tower sounds were always kind of annoying anyway, so its not a huge loss imho.

I'll go into more details about the game if anyone's curious, otherwise feel free to share your own memories of the game/express your wtf-ness.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

Never heard of it, I thought it was a tie in with the Stephen King novels.

Looks pretty cool though, I love old board games.

Posted: Nov 24 2009 08:36 pm

I loved that game as a kid.

I still have the 4 figures that came with it, and use them as D&D figs, since the tower broke long ago.

And, you kinda need the tower to play, since it runs all the battles, and tells if you find treasures, such as the keys you neeed to get into the Dark Tower itself.

Ah, playing the flash version brings back the memories.
http://www.hotflashgames.com/darktower.htm

Another game I owned as child, that I would kill to own again was "Talisman". I loved and adored this game. I then loaned it to a friend who moved, and never saw it again. I saw one for sale a few years later, that was the same as my old one, (2nd Edition) in a gaming store behind the counter. I asked the clerk how much it was. He told me it was $300!!!

So, Hawk, you're not the only one who wants to play old childhood boardgames, that now cost a fortune.

Posted: Nov 24 2009 08:56 pm

Oh my fucking God. Flash Dark Tower just made my vacation. THANK YOU!!!!!

(Also, I'm not worried about the version I buy being playable. I just want the setup for nostalgia purposes and yes, for the figures!)

Posted: Nov 28 2009 03:35 pm

Funny enough, I've played this before, but only once. And I still remember it because I was at the birthday party for a kid in middle school that nobody really liked and I was the only person to show up. I bought him like a case of baseball cards, and we ended up hanging out and playing that game later in the evening before I left. While I was there, his grandmother said, "Oh, something happened to one of your singers that you like so much."

That was the day they found Kurt Cobain dead.

Not so funny addendum? The kid whose birthday party I went to, he's dead too now.