NebuonB's Trivia Game O' Cash

[Gairun]

Question 43 two part question, each part worth 1 point.

What was the title of the first Dungeons and Dragons video game?
What game console was it released for?

[nickbeat]

ADVENTURE was the working title, then it was just called Dungeons and Dragons, then it was changed to...

ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, CLOUDY MOUNTAIN Cartridge

FOR Intellivision!

I remember playing it, along with the original Adventure title for Atari 2600, where our hero was merely a 4 pixel dot.

[sharringtonm]

The game "dnd" was released for the PLATO platform in 1975

the same year the game 'Dungeon" was released for the PDP-10.

There is some confusion on the acctual creation dates but most people agree that dnd was released before Dungeon.

[sharringtonm]

Guess you should have specified if you were looking for the first "officially licensed by TSR, Inc" game, Gairun

[nickbeat]

Wow, that is old school! I've never even heard of PLATO. Was it considered a game console?

[sharringtonm]

and devling into the history now... there was a previous game though it didn't claim to be Dungeons and Dragons, pedit5 also for the Plato platform. dnd was the first to actually claim to be a Dungeons and Dragons game.

[sharringtonm]

Game console? It was a mainframe. I'm not answering part two of this question as it doesn't make sense, only part 1. He asked what the first Dungeons and Dragons game was.

*Smiles widely at Gairun* Now had he specificly asked what the first Dungeons and dragons game for a console was........

[sharringtonm]

Sometimes its good to be old.

[Gairun]

After a heated discussion with the judges nickbeat is awarded 2 points for the correct answer the panel was looking for, his total is now 13. sharringtonm also receives a point for his sheer geek audacity, his total is now 19.


p.s. programs written for the PLATO mainframe were called 'games' not 'video games', Aha!

[sharringtonm]

*Goes looking for Gairun's PC's in game to perform some Developer Testing on.*

[nickbeat]

HAH! Sometimes we just have to know what Gairun happens to be thinking at the time. Stuff like, what is my favorite spell and stuff. I keep thinking of Gollum retorting to Bilbo when he gives him that riddle about what he has in his pocket, "Not FAIR! Not fair to ask what it has in its naaaasty little pocketses!"

No bonus points from me personally if you know what it was! But BOO if you don't know the answer. You really aren't qualified to even post here if you haven't read LOTR and the HOBBIT at least 2 times over.

[MKartMaster]

I know what Bilbo had when talking to Gollum, but I have no idea what he had when talking to Golem.

[nickbeat]

Yeah, I always thought it was odd that his name was a homonym for a legendary hebrew construct. Of course, we all know his real name was Smeagol but everyone called him Gollum cuz of the noises he made.

[Gairun]

Question 44, worth 2 points.

Sheila the Theif has a magical item, what is it?

[MKartMaster]

A cloak that, when the hood is placed over her head, makes her invisible.