Mattel’s Electronic Dungeons & Dragons Computer Labyrinth Game Instructions
I shared two newspaper ads for this old game last year (1981 advertisement, 1983 advertisement), and despite being fairly certain it’s a bad game there’s still some strange part of me that would like to get a copy of the Mattel Electronic Dungeons & Dragons Computer Labyrinth game just so I can give it a try.
Fortunately, if I ever run across a loose copy of the game without instructions the archive.org site has me covered. Scrolling through these instructions just reinforces my feelings that this is a bad game . . . but look at all of those fun illustrations!
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Yep, the game was super boring, but it came with little metal figures, so I would build walls with the wall pieces and push all the buttons to make noise. It was expensive, and I remember my Dad lecturing me on not losing any of the jillion pieces it came with. Then again, he tried to tell me ( a four year old kid) not to open any of my Star Wars figures. HA! What a nut!
@rosewater – Not open Star Wars figures? I open them today. There’s no way that me as a kid was going to leave those toys sealed.
I know, right! “Hey kid! Don’t eat this candy!” I opened every one of them and now they’re all beat up and in a shoebox waiting for me to build a cool display for them. I’ve been a serious-ish collector for a little over 25 years, and I’ve been opening all my toys since the end of POTF2. I do, however, have a zillion unopened POTF2 figures just waiting for my son to rip open once he’s a little bit older and has caught the Star Wars bug.
@rosewater – That’s a great use for POTF2 figures! Those are so inexpensive these days they are fantastic to give to kids as their very first Star Wars toys.
Jeez, this brought back memories. Though I was way too young at the time to have any concerns about playing it correctly. (A phase I assume I’ll someday grow out of.) Correct or incorrect though, we did get a ton of mileage out of it!