Tunnels of Doom

Tunnels of Doom is a role-playing video game programmed by Kevin Kenney for the TI-99/4A home computer and published by Texas Instruments on December 31, 1982.^[1] It was available in two formats: cartridge with accompanying disk and cartridge with cassette.^[2]

Tunnels of Doom
Developer(s)	Texas Instruments
Publisher(s)	Texas Instruments
Designer(s)	Kevin Kenney
Composer(s)	Hank Mishkoff
Platform(s)	TI-99/4A
Release	December 31, 1982
Genre(s)	Role-playing

Based loosely on the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, it is a dungeon crawl in which players control the fates of 1–4 characters as they navigate a maze of tunnels.^[1][3] Texas Instruments used the game in its marketing, citing it as entertainment software involving "strategy and logic".^[4]

Gameplay

The game has four character classes: hero, fighter, rogue, and wizard. The "hero" class is only available in a single character game.^[1]

Upon encountering an enemy, the game transitions to a separate, graphical, overhead battle screen, where a tactical turn-based combat system is used that allows for movement and positioning. It's possible to listen at doors for sounds of monsters, which can be negotiated with in combat as well.^[5]

Legacy

In 2008, Howard Kistler of DreamCodex developed a revised version of the game with the permission of Kevin Kenney.^[6]