Great review of this classic! I still have the original my dad bought me for Christmas 1981. Almost 40 years later, both of my daughters love playing it!
I had this game. What a blast it was. I may try to find one on ebay but I've got to get one that's 100pct complete and the tower has to work well. Thanks for the memories.
The Dark Tower itself is literally one of the coolest board game components ever! I can honestly see why this game goes for such crazy prices nowadays (and even back when it came out to my knowledge).
Quite a piece of gaming history. This game is like a precursor to the modern games that need an IPad app to play. I also hear that there are phone apps that simulate the Tower.
Whoa! That box is huge! It almost scared The Brigans outta me! Lol lol 😃😄😄 😄 I thought it was going to be a smaller box. The box is cool with the comic book like art work. The game is kinda played like Zelda video games in a sense. Great video of the game. Thank you.
Really glad I have this game. My uncle got this when it came out so I didn't have to pay the crazy prices. Tower quit working but I was able to take it all apart, clean it, reassemble it and it has worked fine ever since. Came across one once at a thrift store for $50, the only time I ever saw it, but I passed as I wasn't into reselling at the time.
I absolutely begged my parents to get me this game. I still remember unwrapping it Xmas morning and the hours I spent playing it with friends. The images and sounds are burned into my mind all these years later.
A Fan made an iOS version. When I got mine a long time ago the motor stopped working. I fixed it by doing what I did to my old Kenner Star Wars vehicles. I show how I fixed those on my channel. Toys in those days used a 3 volt motor and plastic gear to make sounds or in this case rotate the images inside the tower. I took the bottom off and carefully rotated the gear with my finger. You can also use sewing machine oil after that. It should be run once a year so the motor doesn't seize. I looked it up. I paid $205 shipped with insurance off eBay in 2004 ($187.50 + 18.00 S&H)
@@BoardGameMuseumer There's guys that refurbish and sell them search eBay for "Dark Tower Repair" The main guy is user "richburbage" He has interesting info on his 'auction' site about the motors just getting old and what can happen to all of the parts with some photos of the insides.
me and my cousin had a paranormal encounter with a dark tower board game when i was a kid. the actual tower is a battery operated center piece that would make sounds. well me and my cousin kept hearing it go off randomly from under my aunts bed. it took us a while to figure out where it was coming from, but we found it and pulled it out only to find that the tower didnt have batteries in it. it continued to go off for months until my aunt sold it in a yard sale. i was just thinking about it and decided to look it up on youtube...
Thanks for the review! I just got this for free out of someone's basement and the tower still works and it has about 98% of all the pieces. Can't wait to get and play it!
I remember playing this game! I put it aside for Scott Adam's text adventure games, like Pirate Cove, and moved on to PlayStation. But I miss playing this. But OMG, it costs 500.00!
Yes, this game is expensive for sure. I don't have my coffee anymore, but every so often you'll find it at a decent price from a Dark Tower perspective
My favorite board game. I got this in the 80's. I still have it. The box is in worse condition than yours but the board is good and all the pieces are there. The tower quit working though. We used the app to play it recently. My niece didn't like the app, she thinks it's programming is off. She got the dragon probably six times in one game and it wouldn't give her a key. Her teenage son really wasn't interested but we made him play, still not a fan. The winning strat I've learned to use is to go straight to the bazaar and buy a beast first to carry my gold. You can never lose your beast so even if all your men are killed in a battle, you won't lose gold (except to the dragon or curse). Next I get a scout. I never buy the healer because he can mess up the troop count in the end game when I'm trying to double my army at the citadel (for example when I'm trying to double 24 men up to the max of 48, just before I get to my citadel the healer can give 2 extra men and the citadel won't double 26). I very rarely buy food or troops, the sanctuary gives those for free if I really need them.
dang, how much did that cost? A full working version of this game is really expensive now since they went out of print and finding one with all the pieces and a working tower is extremely rare.
It is good that you reviewed it. After hearing that Restoration Games is trying to remake it, do you think you will have a chance to think it will be similar as this?
I remember having this game in the early 90's. God I miss it. Luckily there's the flash game I can still play on my PC, or the iOS App on my iphone which is really faithful to the game. It was just so cool having the pieces and the tower, loved all the artwork and plastic pieces and how they felt. Really wish we had ours still, sadly think my dad threw it away or sold it back in the late 90's because we had a ton of board games and they got rid of all of them iirc. I think this goes for $500 now on Ebay.. This one and The Omega Virus were my two favorite board games I remember playing a lot. I believe this also goes for about $400-500 on ebay too.
pro tip for keeping this game running, trim your nails so you dont wear out the keypads, also take it apart from time to time and use plastic safe grease on the gears and pivots, never leave batteries in it, run it from time to time to keep the little motor from sticking.
I finally got it for 110 bucks! (included shipping and taxes). I'm still waiting for the mail to arrive, but i know that the Tower isn't working. I hope a friend of mine (who's tech savvy) can fix it. Anyway, for that price... i think it was a great deal!.
There's a guy on eBay who specializes in fixing these towers if your friend is unable to. He fixed mine when I had the game. And that's a great deal by the way :-) congratulations!
@@Trevin_Taylor Yeah Forbidden Sky is cool, but I would like to see miniature robots and miniature animatronics controlled by an app if necessary. VR has raised my expectation for board game significantly.
Board Game Museum: Home Of Classic Board Games I just finished watching it a couple days ago 😂 what’s your eBay store called? I’ve seen a few you picked up that I’d love to add to my collection.
Board Game Museum: Home Of Classic Board Games awesome thanks! I’ve been searching for a clean complete copy of pizza party and key to the kingdom. -thanks
