It was just over a year ago that the boys and I played through the first of two '90s D&D arcade games that we'd downloaded for our Xbox. Yesterday we decided to kill some time before the Super Bowl by tackling the second game in the Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara series. This one provides several character class options beyond what was available in the original, so we all had fun trying out different classes whenever we got killed -- which was often. (And we were elated to learn that the cleric has the infamous Sticks to Snakes spell that provided so much entertainment in the original game!) The boys cycled through lots of characters, while I tended to stay with a human fighter named Devon. (And every time he would die and re-spawn, I invariably invoked one of our favorite recurring SNL gags: "Devon? Whaaaaat are you doing here?") We were deep into the game when my friend Kyle showed up to watch the Super Bowl with us, so we handed him our fourth controller and he joined in the action. We had to delay the final two boss fights until the break between the first and second quarters, but we beat the game and then enjoyed watching the Chiefs beat the Niners!
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