# What Was This Game From the 1980s?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 8, 2004, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-from-the-1980s/249203 "2004-06-08T00:40:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-from-the-1980s/249203/1 "2004-06-08T00:40:54Z")

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Okay, as I kid, myself and a few friends played a D&D type board game. I don’t remember too many of the details of the game, other than there was a large plastic castle which sat, IIRC, in the center of the board. It was an electronic game, and there were a series of panels which lit up in the castle and these would have things like “Orc attack” or something similar in them. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-from-the-1980s/249203/2 "2004-06-08T01:12:30Z")

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Was it Dark Tower?

Marc

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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-from-the-1980s/249203/3 "2004-06-08T01:17:26Z")

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If so, it’s [quite the collector’s item](http://search.ebay.com/dark-tower-game_W0QQfromZR8QQsosortorderZ2QQsosortpropertyZ3).

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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-from-the-1980s/249203/4 "2004-06-08T01:18:01Z")

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Sounds like Dark Tower to me … but they had brigands instead of orcs.

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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-from-the-1980s/249203/5 "2004-06-08T01:18:03Z")

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Yup! Thanks.

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**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-from-the-1980s/249203/6 "2004-06-08T04:00:07Z")

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> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#):
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> If so, it’s [quite the collector’s item](http://search.ebay.com/dark-tower-game_W0QQfromZR8QQsosortorderZ2QQsosortpropertyZ3).

Actually, it seems to have dropped in price. I remember seeing it at over $300.

Oh yeah, [Dark Tower](http://www.gamepile.com/game04.html).