Gold Box

Gold Box
Clockwise from upper left: overland map exploration; plot cut scene; overall combat interface; dungeon exploration view/battle encounter approach
Developer(s)Strategic Simulations
Westwood Associates
Stormfront Studios
MicroMagic
Cybertech
Marionette
Platform(s)Amiga, Apple II, Mac, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, PC-98, NES, Genesis
Original releaseJune 1988 (1988-06)

Gold Box is a series of role-playing video games produced by Strategic Simulations from 1988 to 1992. The company acquired a license to produce games based on the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game from TSR, Inc. These games share a common game engine that came to be known as the "Gold Box Engine" after the gold-colored boxes in which most games of the series were sold.