Originally posted by: Bea_Iank
A particular one was a game where you avoided a fire breathing dragon at the first screen then tried to collect as much treasure as possible on the next screen.
Dragonfire! That's a fun one.
Thankfully my family basically never got rid of any of our Atari games (or other video games), so almost everything we had BITD is still either with me or at my parents' house. It can be an incredibly fun system, and the paddle controllers offer a kind of gameplay seldom seen since: 4P action with Warlords, or its updated homebrew grandchild Medieval Mayhem? Yes please.
BTW speaking of homebrews it's a terrific platform for those, though I've never understood why people focus so much on Princess Rescue. To me, games like Thrust, Medieval Mayhem, and the sadly unfinished Man Goes Down are far more polished efforts -- conceived for the system from the ground up, and with graphics and sound that mesh perfectly with the Atari's strengths.
Big fan of the Intellivision too, which is also one of the only systems I really collect for (mine is 90% complete or so). We all think of the NES as the first console RPG platform, but the Intellivision was way ahead of it with games like Treasure of Tarmin (1983) and, especially, the roguelike Tower of Doom (1987, though the game was first demoed in 1983 before further development was delayed by the crash).
I played Tower of Doom for the first time in 1989 or so, and was blown away: this supposedly obsolete console was offering the kind of RPG I'd only ever seen on computers, with slick graphics and sound. Great stuff.
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