Dungeons of Daggorath (1st level)

Playing "Dungeons of Daggorath" on the TRS-80/Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer (CoCo).
A first person, real time, fantasy game from 1982.
Playing the first level, with some cuts to fit in youtube's the 10 min. limit

[@mramerecka]

I came here after finding the Copper Key.

[@TheEHermit]

+mramerecka yup! I best most of the views here are thanks to RP1

+mramerecka art3mis?

[@jessicastarks213]

the heartbeat really adds to the tension.

[@suchanuch1]

+mramerecka Hi Parzival !

[@oldcomputergeek4100]

+mramerecka Exactly....

[@paulv1973]

Man I loved this game as a kid. Mad props to the programmer...they made this game fit on a cartridge with like 8kb of memory. Really impressive.

[@jkrenz77]

So did I

[@artsketchbook]

Just listening to the Ready Player One audiobook... had to see what this game looked like!! Awesome!

[@Buster_friendly]

I don't trust H

[@obedo9115]

+William weber same here

[@TheEHermit]

+Art Sketchbook Had to see it too. I had a Timex Sinclair 1000 and later a Compaq Portable Plus , so I hadn't played this one.

[@philipfuchs777]

Same

[@xboxpizzalover2387]

IM 5 YEARS LATE AND NOW THERES READY PLAYER 2 FEEL OLD YET?

[@gravefiller4481]

I played this as a kid. It was very fun back in the day.

[@octechperson]

Wow, that brings back memories, playing as a kid almost 40 years ago. I can't believe that game was sooo much fun.

[@doctoronoodle9455]

I had this as a kid. I got down to level 3 but never could beat the game. I recently did find and beat this game as an adult, so I get to cross that off my video game bucket list... right after I caught Carmen San Diego.

[@ClassicSilverPS5]

Okay late reply here but man, that damned Carmen San Diego... Right up there with The Last V-8, Agent USA, Raid on Bungeling Bay and Miner 2049'er. Still loved the Temple of Asphai series. (note I realize those games were 2-3 generations of computers later).

[@902Steeler]

This was my first ever video/computer game. I got it with a new coco3 for Xmas. Thanks for taking me down memory lane!!!

[@Em22-wtf]

HOLY SH!!....Can I tell you how long I have been trying to find what this game was called?!? My brother and I used to LIVE on this damn game!! LOL!!!! I've been trying to find the name of it for YEARS and on Xmas we were talking about it again, and lol, I spent the last 3 hours trying soooo many different key words bc neither of us could even remember the system it was on! I just remember a keyboard we plugged into our parents smaller tv in their bedroom and we'd sit on the floor in front of it and play for hours! LOL! Thank you soooo much for this!! I can still remember the noises of this game, haha!!

[@dominichester]

Dungeons of Daggorath

[@MrTimJr]

I love the hilarious strategy of dropping a bunch of inventory items on the ground and watching the monsters pick them up instead of attacking you. You're pounding away on them and they're going "ooooo...a pine torch! I've always wanted one of these!!" Good times, and awesome memories.

[@michaelcruz812]

I had a Tandy trs80 in 1984. Dungeons of daggorath was one of many games I played on it using cassette. Thanks for the video!

[@HiAdrian]

James Halliday brought me here. Alas I'm about a decade too young to fully appreciate many of the book's references.

[@39Chevy]

Never too late to buy a vintage computer and explore that world. :)

[@lukegreaves4111]

This game burns in my mind as a 6yo trying to type quicker as that darn heart beat filled my ears! Talk about anxiety!

[@robertc2204]

I hear ya

[@kilroy987]

What Dungeons of Daggorath could do, it did extremely well. The heartbeat dynamic in a dark isolated hallway with creature sounds all around you was genius. Even changing the movement and weapon attacks to hotkey or joystick controls would have completely altered the game. And you can't dally too long or your torches go out. Really good game. Admittedly dropping a bunch of items to force creatures to pick them up before attacking you was really cheap. But if the creature was too tough and you had to run, now it has all your items.

[@TheMightyOdin]

I would drop all my items in front of the weakest creature on the second level (a spider) in an intersection with the longest hallways. Creatures would automatically run right towards you if you were in the same hallway even if there were doors in between you. I’d turn my torch off and just let the spider hit me because it was too weak to do anything at that point. Come back an hour later and every creature would be lined up ready to take there turn. Didn’t always mean I was able to survive... passing out from swinging your sword as a creature stood over you picking up your scattered items Hopi g you could regain consciousness before getting killed.

[@Em22-wtf]

Add to it your brother or sister YELLING commands at you, as you try to type, hahaha, just hearing this game again brings back anxiety 😂😂😂

[@babusaada]

THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!! The soundtrack of my 5-6th grade years

[@mopar3502001]

Me and my best friend spent hours playing this game after coming home from school almost every day. We actually wore out the space bar playing this game. Such a cool time in gaming!

[@bobchen5662]

If it weren't for the book Ready Player One, I would never know such a game had ever existed! Cool! :)

[@hell0yd]

God you people are so pathetic. You’ve completely ruined youtube comment sections.

[@KurtKozzy]

@@hell0yd lol you went through each comment regarding Ready Player One and replied to their comment with this. I’m impressed. Good book and movie though!

[@CadillacBunner]

This was so awesome back in 1982. The snake rattling and heartbeats are awesome. There was only one TRS-80 on the block. Our neighbor had one but he had to save money to buy this game.

[@jkrenz77]

I thought my Dad was nuts when he came home with this. Then began my love of RadioShack…that store had a distinct smell….anyway, my favorite game outside of the spelunking game. It’s on the tip of my tongue. Downland!!!!!

[@kilroy987]

Just the first few minutes of play - the 3D representation of hallways, the darkness, the sounds, the heartbeat. Such a good immersive game. For whatever reason, the keyboard commands, they just work. I once played a similar game that allowed you to move with arrow keys, and it was just not the same.

[@Stypooooo]

who came here from ready player one?

[@o0blizZzard0o]

good good...now i wait here till Art3mis arrives ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@MendelsonShape]

Before you get to the bottom level, better brush up on your War Games.

[@MausundMeer]

Please check out my in-depth review of the book, then. :) I would really appreciate it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4bYoH5_ipuCd6c

[@tonysamosa1717]

DESTROY ME This and joust. I'm learning alot about primative gaming from this book.

[@redbro1232]

meeeeee

[@trashman262]

I can'nt belive what im watching! .... this brings back memories big ups to u deiogbf109!

Something like 35 years ago I watched in amazement as my brother somehow managed to beat this game when we were kids. I can't believe someone actually has a walkthrough of this.

[@Ludamage]

Garden of Delete brought me here : D

[@SamuelAna4Ever]

I am also here because of Ready Player One

[@hell0yd]

God you people are so pathetic. You’ve completely ruined youtube comment sections.

[@ZeneWizard]

This was the coolest game, when it came out. Of course, you had to play it in the dark. Absolutely chilling. I'd love to be able to play this now. You damn near had to wear out your A, L, and space bar buttons...

[@Ldybug0777]

Yess!!

[@gammasmash1924]

My buddy had this when we were kids. I was blown away that there was a D&D type game. It was more than I'd dreamed was possible since my only other in home video game experience at that point was Pong. I think one of my other friends might've had an Atari at that point. It wasn't until a couple years later that I got a colecovision. I'll always have fond(if somewhat hazy)memories of this game though. I remember we had to "incant" a couple of rings(?) Fire and ice.....I think.

[@dadocracy]

The Vulcan Ring had to be incanted to the Fire Ring and the Rime Ring had to be incanted to the Ice Ring.

[@darktrooper2099]

Tim Oakley:::JOULE RING TO ENERGY & SUPREME = FINAL

[@StuartGrahamV]

the course Understanding Video Games on coursera brought me here. so much creativity!

[@kilroy987]

5:15 God the blob startled me. I loved this game - such a good presentation of challenge. Most excellent game on the Coco. I remember coding up a sort of clone from this in Rainbow magazine, and it used the arrow keys to move. Blech, I didn't like it. There is just something about having to type what you are doing. And I realized I keep posting on this video.

[@mohamedmounir8887]

Ready player one brought me here

[@jakubkotasek9174]

Same here! :-D

[@stima2007]

yes me too! :D

[@jonathanross149]

Oddly enough...A friend of mine used the fact that Dungeons of Daggorath was in Ready Player One to convince me to read that book.

[@hell0yd]

God you people are so pathetic. You’ve completely ruined youtube comment sections.

[@noise420]

My childhood brought me here.

[@Dorelaxen]

I've had my CoCo 2 for many, many years, but never had this. Just got it today for 5 bucks! After reading Ready Player One, this is going to be a lot of fun to play through.

[@bananaquiet]

my dad got this for me when i was five or six. it terrified me but i read the manual 100 times. use right torch! the abbreviations!

[@glenngriffon8032]

I finally found it. MY older half-brother had this game on a black cartridge that he used to plug into a keyboard computer. I never knew the name of the game, I just remembered the picture on the front of the cartridge. I been hunting for this off and on for a while now.

[@mrdante361]

I used to try and play this when i was 5 on my grandpa's old TRS80. Thanks for the memories bro.

[@sputnut]

This game was a blast to play... The heartbeat feature added the element that made it great.

[@Phyrefly6]

This was a great game! Even just watching this video, I still feel nervous, I think because of that heart beating! lol

[@darktrooper2099]

Phyrefly6::::How RIGHT you are P.F.6 !NOT FOR THE FAINT-OF-HEART !

[@Necron88]

It's 2025 and I'm helping my Uncle sort through all his old antiques. I found this game amongst all his old cartridges. Wow.

[@Walrondrm]

Man, this brings back so many memories. I never did finish this game! That snake sound and the heart beat.. classic!

[@Bregaladicus]

Ready Player One, Great Book!

[@hell0yd]

God you people are so pathetic. You’ve completely ruined youtube comment sections.

[@Bregaladicus]

@@hell0yd You are the pathetic one sir.

[@biggrigg8558]

I still have this game , and the tandy computer

[@darktrooper2099]

Bigg Rigg:::::Same here !

[@KimberSly]

OMG the heartbeat freaked me out. I thought it was going to explode, resulting in a massive heart attack!!!

[@VinceFanghella]

My dad got me the tandy computer when I was 6. This and color baseball were my two games for it. I never really got anywhere but loved to play this game and broke many controllers w baseball.

[@jameswasil]

So if you wanted to type out: P L T (press enter) then type out U L (press enter). This is the same as if you had typed out: "PULL LEFT TORCH" (pressed enter) and then "USE LEFT" (pressed enter). You tell computer which hand you want things done with. So if there is a shield or a sword on the ground, you'd say "GET RIGHT SWORD" or "G R SW" after you "S R" (stow right) and have an empty free hand to use to do that with. Some items like flasks, need to be revealed. R L reveals a flask on left hand

[@dansmith6748]

the first computer game I ever played, Radio Shack color computer 2 in 1983. loved it!

[@gravefiller4481]

SAME!

[@theyaden]

I remember waiting for the 2nd blob to find me took forever lol.Incanting the fire ring for the first time was pretty cool though.

[@PotholesInMyLawn]

This was and always well be my favorite game. I still have the cartridge. I still have my tape back ups lol..

[@diegobf109]

It is now in the Windows Store!

[@renorocker64]

I played it for hours on end , i was 18 and i would smoke out and play it with all the lights out . ONE OF THE GREATEST VIDEO GAME EXPERIENCES I EVER HAD !!!!!!!!!!

[@gdpiscopo]

I like how everyone has different experiences of what is their "greatest ever"

[@Em22-wtf]

my little brother and I spent HOURS on this damn game! Lol! The only game I ever really got into!!!

[@C0mm0nS3ns3]

Greatest your nuts the trash 80 was pain the c64 was so much better

[@dennisternent2974]

We all loved playing this. Tons of fun.

[@zechsmarqees]

Maaaannnn i was like 10 when i used to play this thanks for posting....memories

[@kiraschii5629]

hi. this game- Dungeons of Daggorath- isn’t my generation. my dad and i think my mom also played it when they were kids. as someone who grew up with nintendo and PlayStation, this game looks pretty primitive to me. and yet, i can still see how my parents liked it. to them, this was cutting edge and the atmosphere was well done for the technology they had at the time.

[@diegobf109]

That's a great point. Of course a game written in 82 MUST look like crap when compared to a modern one, but... we can really appreciate, even enjoy, the great work done with the limited resources they had

[@vention4wh]

Boy this brings back memories!

[@kilroy987]

Ah yes, the old get with the full item description to see what an unidentified object is without being able to identify it. Memories!

[@Avatinfernus]

Omg played that shit when I was 5-6 years old and had very little grasp of English. Good souvenirs

[@wojiaobill]

who else came here after reading Ready Player One?

[@crow4eva]

Bill Hetherington I did, good sir! luvin the book. Just read where Parcival has won the first key (copper or whatever)! "Art thou ready?" lolz. can't wait 4 the movie.

[@silentfanatic]

Yes! Played this as a kid. Never could get anywhere in it.

[@darktrooper2099]

Jason X::::Didn't try hard enough.

[@jkrenz77]

Good one. I like this one as there is NO commentary. It’s just me and my memories.

[@TheFarmerfitz]

Played this so much I wore out my keyboard... Killed the wizard many times...

[@diegobf109]

Yes, I connected my real one to my PC´s video capture card. The colors are from what is called "Arttifacting" and can only be seen in NTSC video. Also, red and blue will be swapped at random at boot time.

[@poseidon5003]

It's still one of my favorite games of all time.

[@uppanadam74]

Ohh gosh this brings back memories...wish I still had this game...each time I played it took me 40 minutes of heavy concentration..and out of all that I only managed to make it too level 3...and I was always getting killed by the wizard...you just wanted to beat his arse caus you know he's got something worthwhile...LOL...

[@darktrooper2099]

Uppanadam74::::Never too late brave adventurer ! Alas.........yet another shall return......

[@Dirtfire]

Want me to give you a hint?

[@xspawn1387]

The first computer game I ever played... .We got this when it came out now I'm 50 and just finished Resident Evil Village ... .. What a fucking ride... .. . !

[@ubermut]

Ready Player One brought me here. The movie is about to come out. Hope it's half as good as book. :)

[@varelseramen4582]

2017 ready player one

[@YuriRosas_]

VARELSE RAMEN 2018888

[@Jack_lly]

Dude I try the game, and I have absolutely no clue what's happening...

[@hobiwankinobi4750]

God I loved this game as a kid. We had the CoCo64. wasted many a day on this game

[@darktrooper2099]

And now????STILL ever think of playing?

[@jameswasil]

R L = Vulcan Ring I Fire (becomes fire ring with 3 shots) R L = Rime or Rhime Ring I Ice (becomes ice ring with 3 shots) R L = Joule ring Try I volt or I energy (trying to remember which; it's one of the two) (becomes energy ring with 2 or 3 shots) Then the final ring (the Supreme ring) at the End. All good things have incantations of Endings. :) Behold, a new wizard!

[@nathleflutiste]

This game was way ahead of its time. I seriously wonder what could have been done with the game engine ported to 16-bits consoles.

[@HansHackfress]

That heartbeat sounds like the motion tracker they had in Aliens :D

[@darktrooper2099]

HansHackfress::::PRECISELY ! Absolutely the 1st thing I thought of once "ALIENS" was released ! Every time I started playing the game !

[@Joshua209]

I'm only here cause of a nod to this on a LoG Discussion on steam. Skipped n Watched a bit. Rather interesting system with working abbreviations. ' c' Dat heart man.

[@GBrown-ql6qn]

The "372 Pages We'll Never Get Back" series on Ready Player One brought me here :)

[@oldcomputergeek4100]

Wife gonna kill me when she finds out I bought a trash 80 just to play this....

[@diegobf109]

That's money well spent! I bought a 512KB CoCo3 just (mostly) to play ¨Gate Crasher"

[@JohnSheehan72]

There are some perfectly good CoCo emulators out there for free. Check out colorcomputerarchive dot com - has just about every commercial CoCo program, every rainbow magazine, and a bunch of emulators for you to try it all out. Some times I boot it up just to be comforted my the light green screen with blinking cursor.

[@JohnSheehan72]

oh - and gate crasher is available in the color computer archives - under disks/games

[@jonathanross149]

I hope you are using the tape player to save your progress.

[@ShawnRavenfire]

I played endless hours of this game as a kid. I never got all the way to the end, though.

[@darktrooper2099]

Keep trying,you will.

[@indridcold8433]

A strategy I used was to carry a bunch of junk with me. When a feature was at a distance, I would drop it all. When the creature got to me, it would pick up all the items before it would attack. The more items on the ground, the longer it took to pick up the junk, and the more I could attack it before it could attack me.

[@pietrosb4542]

At least I didn't have to be in the whole Wargames movie after this!

[@WayneHenrymd]

Imagine if you could go back in time with Skyrim.....peoples heads would explode.

[@GioGarnada]

Now imagine if some future kid came back with a game from their time. Our h ads would explode!

[@julesalcouffe4838]

Wayne Henry I had one of these when I was a kid, the instructions it came with were next to useless. No map, no clue about a=attack. Apparently you were supposed to get together with friends and figure it out. If I had friends I wouldn't be playing games on a TRS-80. :p

[@ClassicSilverPS5]

Ahh a fellow TRS-80'er. I loved this game and also had no idea how to play (figured it out over time). No internet for us back then so I had to look up the word "Rime" to figure out how to incant the ice ring. Vulcan was the Roman Fire god so that ring was easier to figure out. This game was pretty ahead of it's time for sure and I have fond memories of it.

[@KirkNeddy]

Bringing back all the memories. I couldn't ever get further than level 3 in the game, but just watching this it's bringing back the feelings of anticipation I felt when I was a kid.

[@darktrooper2099]

Gio Garnada::::Especially if THIS game were brought more/less to life!!!!!!!!!!In some,say,3D virtual reality world !

[@afenic]

Still one of my favorite dungeon crawler games of all time. The beating heart was brilliant and the action was super fast paced.

[@jimbox114]

Been trying to figure out how to do anything on this game. Got it with my Color Computer 2 auction the other day and couldn't see anything but black. Looks really overly difficult to play. I can see where it was really impressive for the time, reminds me of Treasure of Tarmin for the Intellivision.

[@PeterAckarey]

Just finished beating the game for the bazillionth time on my Mac CoCo emulator. It's okay to play it this way, but nothing beat playing the game on the CoCo hooked up to a crappy TV, which is how you get the red/blue line effect. I always thought the splash of color added a nice visual dimension to the game. It wasn't intended that way; it had to to with the programming reacting badly with the NTSC signal. Now when I play it on my Mac all the lines are white.

[@darktrooper2099]

PeterAckarey::::Times change.

[@Knightimex]

My first rpg ever. I was like 6.

[@darktrooper2099]

Knightime X:::::SAY ! You look a LOT like a guy I know here by the name of Eddiebnyc1990 !

[@KurtKozzy]

Ready Player One is blowing my mind...

[@hell0yd]

God you people are so pathetic. You’ve completely ruined youtube comment sections.

[@KurtKozzy]

@@hell0yd lol you went through each comment regarding Ready Player One and replied to their comment with this. I’m impressed. Good book and movie though!

[@Drewzker]

one of the greatest games of all time

[@noelchrisjohnbenson8161]

I remember how I'd jump when you walk through a wall or spin around and theres a blob standing right there, lol

[@jameswasil]

Commands: P = pull (from backpack) / S = stow (to backpack) / A = attack / U = use / E or EX = examine (look away to backpack) / L or R = left or right (can be 'look' if used by itself to look back at screen) / T = Torch SW = Sword R = Ring(if object) / D = Drop item / G = Get item / I = incant ring / M = move fwd / M B = move back / M L = move left / M R = move right / T L = turn left / T R = turn right / T A = turn around / C D = climb down / C U = climb up / FL = flask/ SH = shield/ T =torch

[@thepedalsadvocate7389]

JHC! I remember this. Well. The sounds!!!! Haha.

[@ItsRezzo]

Rp1 brought me here before the movie was released ;)

[@gusic709]

As someone who was born in the 2000s I say Ready Player one is my grail diary

[@JamesWagner1]

Love it! Where can one play this online?

[@diegobf109]

At the Color computer archive site. colorcomputerarchive.com/search?q=dungeons+of+daggorath

[@SomeOrangeCat]

I used to play the hell out of this.

[@darktrooper2099]

Sherbert's World of Shlock::::COUNTLESS HOURS !

[@Pytzamarama]

Why is this version in colour? Whatever port I stabble across, is black and white

[@diegobf109]

Pytzamarama The game is actually black and white, but when the Color Computer is connected to an old fashioned NTSC TV, some of the white pixels will be displayed as red and others as blue. Most Color Computer emulators have an option to enable "artifacting" to recreate this effect.

[@Pytzamarama]

diegobf109 thank you!! Just found xroar emulator that supports artifacts.

[@MichaelChanning]

I always attacked with the right hand. Interesting to watch you attack with left.

[@diegobf109]

I'm actually right handed, but attacking with the left hand allowed me to use my left hand to type the "A", and then the right hand in a sort of circular motion for [spc] [L] [Enter]

[@MichaelChanning]

I can see that. For me, I preferred to give two keys to each hand and alternate between them.@@diegobf109

[@bmw575]

Oh yeah the running man this bring back memories... me and my boy used to get down big time with this... sword in one hand shield in the other your heart was beating so fast the dnag spider would come out of no where and kill you.. scary, the blob , the knight... man what a game

[@darktrooper2099]

bmw575:::: TOUCHE '

[@paulinhamiranda8011]

Ready player one ❤Jogador número 1 ❤

[@MausundMeer]

Please check out my in-depth review of the book, then. :) I would really appreciate it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4bYoH5_ipuCd6c

[@thepedalsadvocate7389]

This was one hell of a game circa 1983......

[@vention4wh]

>This game was hard as Hell I never got past the wizard Simple trick is to hide behind a spider as you recover then kill the wizard when you recover. It's really handy the way they wait in line for you like that.

[@Discrimination_is_not_a_right]

If anyone complains about the low playback quality, tell them this is pretty much how it looked on those fuzzy old TV screens over fuzzy old RF modulators.

[@lagoonguy]

loved this game

[@dabreadman6567]

Got that copper key baby!

[@TheRealDioBrando]

this looks *incredibly* addictive

[@victorkenarsy3024]

My parents bought this for me on the Tandy system from Radio Shack when I was 7 or 8. I never understood what to do so I hardly played it. Had Downland too that was my shit.

[@ScarletAvatar]

I love how the smiling blob sounds like it's ripping one. Used to scare the shit out of me.

[@diegobf109]

I could hear that some creatures were around, , but could not see them. So I started turning around to keep them from sneaking on me.

[@darktrooper2099]

diebobf109::::Which is sometimes HARD to do !

[@jscott2700]

I used to go down the ladder then go back up to an older level just to keep killing creatures to build up strength. I got so powerful that when I advanced to levels 4-5, I was unstoppable. By the way, at the end it's the Supreme Ring, then Incant Final.

[@diegobf109]

@crazyfilms101 I know it looks hard, but I'm sure you could eventually learn to play it, kind of...

[@darktrooper2099]

diegobf109:::: I SURE DID !