Talking to the Man Behind One of the "Worst Nintendo Games of All Time": Deadly Towers

Alan Weiss, a former producer at Broderbund, did an interview about his role on Deadly Towers for the NES, sharing some trivia about the development and talking about some of his experiences working on other iconic titles like Myst, the two-player version of Lode Runner,and Secret of Evermore.

[hankmoody]

One of my childhood friends bought this on the strength of the cover art. The cover art was leagues better than the actual game.

[hduce]

What are they talking about? Deadly Towers was awesome. Maybe I might go back and play it to see if its as good as I remember.

[tieryas]

I personally liked Deadly Towers and I mainly wanted to interview one of the developers behind it. Alan had a really good sense of humor about the game being considered one of the worst games ever-he's a pretty awesome guy and has worked on some very cool titles.

[maniacmayhem]

I rented this game from a mom and pop video store up the street from my house when I was a kid. And it was bad, but bearable...I played far worse games for the NES...any game from Bandai or LGN was frog pond crap, they made this game look like a masterpiece.

[tieryas]

You know, it's one of my goals to track down some of the makers of LJN and interview them about their games, ha ha =)

[maniacmayhem]

Have you seen the Angry Video Game nerd reviews for LGN games? It's hilarious because he captures exactly how I felt whenever I played a game from them. Even as a kid I learned never to trust that stupid rainbow logo on a Nintendo box.

[tieryas]

Yes of course! I love the AVGN reviews! I even reference his Deadly Towers review in the interview. Ha ha, you were smarter than I was- I never could identify it =)

[Killzoner99]

People say the NES has tons of classics but all I see is garbage like this game lmfao.