Better than Dungeon Master, though? Not quite…
Back when I was a kid, Dungeon Master was a life-changing experience for me. Introduced to its real-time RPG charms at a tender age by my gaming-obsessed father, FTL’s seminal first-person dungeon-crawler really left a mark on me – but this piece isn’t about Dungeon Master, it’s about Shining in the Darkness, Climax Entertainment’s first Genesis / Mega Drive release, which followed around four years later.
From the moment I read a report in British magazine Raze (issue 4, February 1991 – it’s NSFW, so consider yourself warned), I knew I had to own this game. “The game causing the most excitement in Japan on the Mega Drive is Shining and Darkness , the Dungeon Master clone that far surpasses the original,” reported Shintaro Kanaoya (who I always assumed was a fake name used by a British writer given the preponderance of British slang in the text, but is, in fact, a real person who has since worked for Bullfrog, Rare and Microsoft – and starred in the TV series Shōgun and FBI: International).
Read the full article on timeextension.com
Better than Dungeon Master, though? Not quite…
Back when I was a kid, Dungeon Master was a life-changing experience for me. Introduced to its real-time RPG charms at a tender age by my gaming-obsessed father, FTL’s seminal first-person dungeon-crawler really left a mark on me – but this piece isn’t about Dungeon Master, it’s about Shining in the Darkness, Climax Entertainment’s first Genesis / Mega Drive release, which followed around four years later.
From the moment I read a report in British magazine Raze (issue 4, February 1991 – it’s NSFW, so consider yourself warned), I knew I had to own this game. “The game causing the most excitement in Japan on the Mega Drive is Shining and Darkness , the Dungeon Master clone that far surpasses the original,” reported Shintaro Kanaoya (who I always assumed was a fake name used by a British writer given the preponderance of British slang in the text, but is, in fact, a real person who has since worked for Bullfrog, Rare and Microsoft – and starred in the TV series Shōgun and FBI: International).
Read the full article on timeextension.com
