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A 22-Year Case of Blueballs
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/16/2017
My long, rambling history with “Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep” (“DM2”) began 22 years ago when I bought the game at launch from Babbages. I loved the original “Dungeon Master,” of which I played the SNES port, and I loved the ‘Eye of the Beholder’ trilogy, of which I played the SNES port of the first game, then replayed it and its sequels on PC after taking my old IBM to the Computer Resource Center at the local university and having the elite geek gurus there help me beat it into submission and force it to play games that it refused to play when I asked it nicely.
I loved these first-person Dungeon Crawlers for their unorthodox blend of abstract, RPG-style combat, maze exploration, and Adventure game-style point-and-click puzzles. Sometime in 1996, I was …