| Entwickler mit Humor |  |
Da ich das Spiel jetzt kenne, hatte ich überlegt es mir zu holen und es durchzuspielen, sofern es kein Endlosspiel ist.
Es ist kein Endlosspiel, aber der Platz auf dem Modul hat nur ausgereicht um bis zum Drachen-Endboss zu kommen. Besiegen kann man den Drachen aber nicht:
[https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2021/07/brief-swords-serpents-1982.html]
In S&S, however, the dragon's fire doesn't harm you. It just prevents you from approaching the dragon and carrying out your ostensible mission to kill him. It turns out that you can't complete the quest given in the manual to destroy the dragon. A single player (with the warrior prince) can't do anything at all except take a look at the dragon and finish collecting the other treasure. If there are two players, the wizard can cast "Destroy Wall" to get them into the dragon's inner chambers, where they can collect the two final treasures and apparently see the developers' initials (this is attested on numerous sites, but I wasn't able to find a single screenshot of it).
There's an amusing anecdote on a message board that shortly after the game's release, two kids finally reached this point after playing all night, got confused, found author Brian Dougherty's name in the game manual, and found his home telephone number through directory assistance. They woke him up in the early morning hours to ask him how to defeat the dragon. When he groggily told them there was no way to kill the dragon ("he had run out of room on the cartridge") and that his initials were their "reward," they "let loose with a string of obscenities . . . called him every name in the book, then hung up."
Well, let me echo that sentiment. Brian Dougherty, you are a c#*@#(*(!, m@%!*&^, #%@# of @#&% who couldn't #@(@% his own #%&*! if he had a @#%@#*&.
As for my subscriber, P.S., sorry about the confusion. I promise you that an entry on Towers of Doom is coming. In the meantime, I hope this is enough of a reward: C.N.B.