{"id":1144,"date":"2011-02-25T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2011-02-25T23:19:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T14:19:15","slug":"classic-gaming-magazine-ad-from-1983-was-dunzhin-really-cutting-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"Classic gaming magazine ad from 1983 &#8211; was Dunzhin really cutting edge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was laying in bed reading classic gaming mags from yesteryear (what? it&#8217;s great) and this one ad from COMPUTE!&#8217;s Gazette cracked me up; not since Diakatana have you seen ostentatious claims like this about a game and its author!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dunzhin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1145\" title=\"dunzhin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dunzhin-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dunzhin-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dunzhin-781x1024.jpg 781w, https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dunzhin.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;No other fantasy role-playing game author has skills comparable to  Masteller&#8217;s.\u00a0 And Masteller&#8217;s software demonstrates that skill.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dunzhin\">C64 port of Dunzhin<\/a> live up to its flamboyant verbiage at $29.95?\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s a pretty basic rogue-like with random dungeon creation, random encounters, near ascii-like graphics and frustratingly gameplay so&#8230; not so much, even for that year.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the\u00a0 rest of the series was better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dunzhin_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1146\" title=\"dunzhin_2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dunzhin_2-300x212.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dunzhin_2-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dunzhin_2.png 758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dunzhin_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1147\" title=\"dunzhin_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dunzhin_1-300x212.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dunzhin_1-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dunzhin_1.png 758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been guilty of plenty of hyperbole myself (what kind of ego-maniac puts himself in his games as a boss, or romantic interest?\u00a0 Insane!) so not casting stones here, just enjoying some retro history.<\/p>\n<p>ScreenPlay, well played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was laying in bed reading classic gaming mags from yesteryear (what? it&#8217;s great) and this one ad from COMPUTE!&#8217;s Gazette cracked me up; not since Diakatana have you seen ostentatious claims like this about a game and its author! &#8220;No other fantasy role-playing game author has skills comparable to Masteller&#8217;s.\u00a0 And Masteller&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}