Excellent blend of tactics and action, no 2 games are alike, a masterpiece in the videogame world and a game that will always make intellivision fans proud of their system.

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Of course by modern standards this game is really old school. Even though it was simple it could draw you in. It had a good creep factor (esp when I was a kid) cause you didn't always know what was around the corner. I really hated the dragon, demons and rats! Reminds me a bit of present day horror survival games.

3 difficulty settings- clever system of going into 3 types of mountains- red for a gate key, blue mountain for a boat to cross water and red mountain with a snake defending an ax to take you through the forest. in the end you are after a crown. One of the greatest games of all time based on when it came out, the subject matter/story (this is way deeper than anything else at the time- almost zelda like)control, graphics, its the only reason I went back and bought a refurbished system.

Back in the early 1980s, during the golden age of video games and possibly of tabletop roleplaying games, it seemed a natural for there to be a Dungeons & Dragons video game. So, when Mattel came along with such a game for its Intellivision home video game system, fans of both type games were more than thrilled.

And the game didn't let anyone down. For the time, the graphics were actually quite good, though the Intellivision always had pretty solid graphics for the early '80s. The sound was also good, and played an important role in the game experience itself.

Also, the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game for the Intellivision was different and somewhat complex compared to other games of the time. There was no score. Instead, the player had a goal to reach, a crown to find. But before finding that crown, the player had to find a boat, a hatchet and a key to be able to travel through the land in which the game took place.

Basically, you travel around a map and enter caves to search for the needed items. Your only weapon is a bow and a limited amount of arrows. Fortunately, you could find more arrows laying about in the cave systems, which was good because you had plenty of monsters to face such as bats, spiders, rats, blobs, demons and yes, dragons.

Once you found the crown, you won the game.

It wasn't exactly true roleplaying, but it was one of the closest video game experiences players could find at the time.

And yes, of course, by today's standards the graphics and sound and gameplay don't compare, but they were very good for the early 1980s.

Eventually this game was renamed Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain because a sequel game was released, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin, which was a fine game in its own right.