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Instruction booklet · June 1993

Dungeon Master

Role-playing (RPG)1 playerPre-ESRBDSP-2

The story

Dungeon Master established several new standards for role playing and computer games in general. Dungeon Master was a realtime game instead of the traditional turn-based approach that was prevalent until then. Instead of using text-based commands to interact with the environment, players directly manipulated objects and the environment by clicking the mouse in the enlarged first-person view.

Specifications

Released
June 1993
Developers
Software Heaven, FTL Games
Publisher
JVC Musical Industries
Players
1
Genre
Role-playing (RPG)
Rating
Pre-ESRB
Chip
DSP-2
Series
Dungeon Master
Themes
Action · Fantasy
View
First person

What the magazines said

EGM · not on record yet

Players
86/100 (26 ratings)
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