It was quite pricey at the time - actually the price is comparable to ours right now, once you scale for inflation. “I remember being at my grandmother’s house and playing it and playing it with my brothers and cousins during the summer after it came out,” Daviau reminisces. Having raised more than $4 million from over 23,000 backers on Kickstarter, it’s clear the force of nostalgia is strong with this one. “I was just getting into Dungeons & Dragons and computer games at the time,” recalls Rob Daviau, “so it kind of blew my 12-year-old mind.” As chief restoration officer at Restoration Games, the veteran designer of Risk Legacy is currently working hard on Return to Dark Tower, a highly anticipated 21st-century bells-and-whistles sequel/remake whose creative team also includes Beasts of Balance designer Tim Burrell-Saward and Gloomhaven creator Isaac Childres. The battle was joined… and I was victorious!”īy today’s standards, the backlit illustrations on the Tower’s slides and its 8-bit bleeps feel charmingly primitive - but in the early eighties it was impressively, enticingly state-of-the-art. Then, ahead of my opponent, I made my move. The computer kept track, giving me secret information: pictures, sounds, surprises. “In this amazing game, I had to find three keys, lay siege to the tower and defeat the enemy within,” intoned the grey-bearded, wild-eyed Welles. The creator of 1941 cinematic masterpiece Citizen Kane was chosen by game giant Milton Bradley to front its TV ad campaign for Dark Tower: an impressive, expensive, electronically enhanced tabletop fantasy experience which fired imaginations (and threatened parents’ bank balances) with its circular board and foot-high black plastic, computer-controlled rotating centrepiece. For many kids in 1981, the adventure started with Orson Welles.
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