Capcom has a big surprise at PAX East. They’re porting arcade classics Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara and Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Chalgyr's Game Room writes:
Tower of Doom is my all time favorite arcade game. It is a fantasy action/role playing adventure, where you travel through a land of mystery and danger, searching to defeat a powerful evil force that lurks in a distant, dark tower.
"The fantasy role-playing series Dungeons & Dragons has enjoyed a long a fruitful relationship with the pastime of video gaming. We’ve seen countless digital interpretations of the tabletop war-game, each one utilising the staggering scope of the licence to create new and amazing worlds for the player to explore. Yet the vast majority of these titles have remained firmly rooted in the realms of the video game RPG — which isn’t a terrific surprise when you consider the genre was directly inspired by the pen-and-paper universe that D&D inhabits. However, throughout the past few decades there have been some notable exceptions, with the most striking being Capcom’s duo of 2D arcade titles — Tower of Doom and Shadow Over Mystara - both of which were released in the mid-90s and will soon be making their way to the Wii U eShop in the form of Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara.", writes NintendoLife.
At PAX East 2013 in Boston, Capcom revealed that it's bringing back two of its classic Dungeons & Dragons games in the new Chronicles of Mystara digital download. Producer Dan Pantumsinchai talks about the game in this exclusive interview.
It's like there is this group of people who do nothing but sit around a table all day and think of ways to take my money.