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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - Treasure of Tarmin [Model MT4325]

Unreleased Atari 2600 cart. published 41 years ago by M Network

Not listed in MAME yet

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - Treasure of Tarmin [Model MT4325] screenshot

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - Treasure of Tarmin © 1983 M Network.

You've found the secret map to the underground lair of the dreaded Minotaur. You can go in, but you'll never come out unless you slay the Minotaur and claim the Tarmin treasure. As you make your way through the hallways and chambers, monsters wield their conventional or spiritual weapons. You must gather the proper defenses along the way. But use them sparingly, the Minotaur looms closer!

Treasure of Tarmin is your standard D&D dungeon crawler full of long corridors, nasty monsters, and of course fabulous riches. Unlike Tower of Mystery, ToT shows a first person perspective as you navigate the long hallways of the evil castle. Along the way you'll run into nasty orcs, wizards, giant ants, and other assorted creepy crawlies as you search for the fabled Treasure of Tarmin. To help you out in your quest, someone has kindly hidden spell scrolls, weapons, and health potions throughout the dungeon. Overall Treasure of Tarmin plays very similarly to Crypts of Chaos, but with better graphics.

TECHNICAL

GAME ID: MT4325

TRIVIA

Unreleased prototype.

Treasure of Tarmin is based off the game of the same name for the Intellivision. Strangely Mattel never attempted to port their first Intellivision D&D game Cloudy Mountain to the 2600 even though it was very popular and much simpler graphically (thus making for an easy port).

Treasure of Tarmin was ported to the 2600 by Synth Corp., which was apparently just two guys working out of their garage in Chicago. Why Mattel chose (or even found) Synth Corp. is unknown, but these guys showed that they knew their stuff. Treasure of Tarmin is one of the most remarkable games on the 2600, showing that it could handle second generation games (albeit with blockier graphics).

The ROM file of this game exists, but has not been released, most likely due to copyright issues.

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