Fortunately for us, the project is completely open source. Working copies of DarkTower go for hundreds online, but who can afford such an extravagance when these 40+ year old towers are prone to battery leakage and loose connections? Certainly not, who was hoping to give the gift of DarkTower to a friend and decided to build a mini reproduction instead. Thanks to a lawsuit, few copies remain, and even fewer of them are in working condition. The Tower itself was a battery-powered computer on lazy Susan that showed numbers on a couple of 7-segment displays, pictures via three carousels, and had a 12-button keypad. Orson Welles pimped it on TV and explained it thusly: “collect three keys, lay siege to the tower, and defeat the enemy within”. Remember DarkTower? No? Well, it’s a really cool combination board game, RPG, and computer game from 1981.
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