| DragonStrike was a 1993 board game from TSR, Inc. based on the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. DragonStrike was
intended to serve as an introduction to the D&D role-playing game, and used greatly simplified versions of the Basic
D&D rules. The game came with several fold-out maps for use as the board, a number of plastic miniatures to represent the
player characters and monsters, and various other game pieces. Its
most distinctive feature, however, was the inclusion of a video tutorial on how to play the game. The video primarily used live actors, but was bolstered
by then-cutting edge 3D graphics which were used to illustrate various
magical effects and monsters, such as the game's titular
dragon.
A later board game, also titled DragonStrike, had nothing to do with the original board game or the Dungeons &
Dragons game. This later DragonStrike game was released by Hasbro (which had
by this point bought out Wizards of the Coast, the company
that owned TSR, Inc.), and had the players race each other to escape from a motorized dragon.
Also not to be confused with the DragonStrike computer game.
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