Dungeon Master (video game)

This article is about the late 1980s video game. For other unrelated games of similar name, see Dungeon Master (disambiguation) § Gaming.
Dungeon Master
Cover art by David R. Darrow
Developer(s)FTL Games
Victor Musical Industries (X68000)[2]
Publisher(s)FTL Games
Victor Musical Industries (X68000)[2]
Director(s)Doug Bell
Producer(s)Wayne Holder
Designer(s)Doug Bell
Programmer(s)
  • Doug Bell
  • Dennis Walker
  • Mike Newton
Artist(s)Andrew Jaros
Composer(s)Wayne Holder[3]
Platform(s)Atari ST, Amiga, Apple IIGS,[4] MS-DOS (x86), SNES, TurboGrafx-CD, X68000, PC-9801, FM Towns
Release
Genre(s)Role-playing, dungeon crawl
Mode(s)Single player

Dungeon Master is a role-playing video game featuring a pseudo-3D first-person perspective. It was developed and published by FTL Games for the Atari ST in 1987,[5] almost identical Amiga and PC (DOS) ports following in 1988 and 1992.

Dungeon Master sold 40,000 copies in its year of release alone,[6] and went on to become the ST's best-selling game of all time. The game became the prototype for the genre of the 3D dungeon crawlers with notable clones like Eye of the Beholder.[7]

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  2. ^ a b c "Dungeon Master Release Information for Sharp X68000 - GameFAQs". gamefaqs.gamespot.com.
  3. ^ McFerran, Damien (2006). "The Making of Dungeon Master" (PDF). Issue 34. Retro Gamer Magazine. pp. 30–31. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
  4. ^ Daniel Durgan (October 1998). "Interview with the Apple Dungeon Master programmer Don Jordan". The Un-Official Dungeon Master Web Site. Archived from the original on 2000-12-05.
  5. ^ Barton, Matt (2007-02-23). "Part 2: The Golden Age (1985–1993)". The History of Computer Role-Playing Games. Gamasutra. Archived from the original on 2009-03-30. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
  6. ^ Petersen, Sandy (December 1993). "Eye of the Monitor". Dragon. No. 200. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR, Inc. p. 73.
  7. ^ Owens, Dennis (June 1991). "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder". Computer Gaming World. p. 14. Retrieved 17 November 2013. This personalized combat perspective undoubtedly earned much of the praise for FTL's CGW Hall of Fame member, Dungeon Master. In a very real sense, Eye of the Beholder (SSI's first entry in the "Legend Series," a new line of AD&D computer role-playing games) is Dungeon Master meets veteran storyteller George MacDonald.