1981 Milton Bradley Company

Milton Bradley Dark Tower

A motorized rotating black tower that keeps a hidden state behind a tinted cover and reveals it by spinning film cels into view

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Milton Bradley Dark Tower archival photograph

Overview

Deep dive

Team & pioneers

  • Vince Erato. Credited designer; previously created the Big Trak toy; inspired by the computer game Wilderness Campaign (1979).
  • Bob Pepper. Illustrated the game, including the film cels inside the tower.
  • Michael Gray. M-B designer who contributed to the Dark Tower manual.

Media

Completely assembled Dark Tower game showing the central tower and round four-kingdom board
Canonical "completely assembled game" illustration, Dark Tower manual (1981), Internet Archive scan.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — Dark Tower (game)
  2. Dark Tower Assembly and Game Play Information (1981) manual, Internet Archive
  3. Games magazine, Top 100 Games of 1981, #26