Eye of the Beholder: How Westwood's 1991 Dungeon Crawler Turned AD&D into a Real-Time Nightmare

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Retro game retrospective #8 — 1991, Westwood Associates / Strategic Simulations, MS-DOS (Amiga, PC-98, Sega CD, Super NES ports followed) In 1991, the scariest monster in video games had no hit points you could see and no initiative order to hide behind. It was waiting at the bottom of a sewer under the city of Waterdeep, and it wanted you to know it was there the whole way down. Eye of the Beholder — the first game in SSI's "Legend Series" of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons computer products — took the dungeon crawler, made it real-time, and aimed it squarely at the oldest fear in tabletop gaming

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