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The Intellivision's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain summoned a franchise's low-fi, DIY spirit

A retrospective of the wonderfully simple Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain on the Intellivision.

| Image credit: Mattel Electronics / Eurogamer / Jonny Malks The original Dungeons & Dragons was a small box set of three booklets published in 1974 and written by the father of D&D, Gary Gygax, and his collaborator at the time, Dave Arneson. Worried mothers would stay up late talking in hushed tones about how they were afraid their sons were engaged in demon worship, having glimpsed pentagrams and strangely shaped-dice littering their desks, ruining the domestic order of their ceramic-topped kitchen counters. The ethos of the game that's inspired so many of us to let our nerd flags fly, to romance Astarion and learn about those mysterious tattoos, even to spend hours writing a fantastical story – complete with monster stat blocks and skill checks – that only a few friends will ever know exists.

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