Previous games of the genre, such as Wizardry and Ultima, focused on long turn-based battles and thus were a little too ponderous for many. Dungeon Master was eventually followed up with a far more challenging expansion pack, Chaos Strikes Back, as well as a sequel in 1994: Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep.ĭungeon Master was a trailblazing RPG in that it created the first truly real-time dungeon crawler. It would eventually see console ports on the Super Nintendo and TurboGrafx-CD as well. It was later ported to various other home computers of the era, such as the Amiga, the PC, the FM Towns, the Sharp X68000 and the Apple-II. The quest is to descend through 14 levels of the eponymous Dungeon to retrieve the Fire Staff - the only weapon capable of stopping the evil Lord Chaos.ĭungeon Master was originally released on the Atari ST home computer in 1987.
Dungeon Master is a first person dungeon adventure from developer FTL (Faster than Light).
