 What I'm going to show you today is a very special piece of work. It is Quest for the Rings, published by Magnavox in 1981. It is a board game that accompanies a video game of the same name as part of the Magnavox Odyssey 2 game collection. This glossy black box has a glossy black interior as well. The lid is held on by a ribbon here and the underside of the box lid reproduces the art from the box cover. The boxes and promotional material for the Magnavox Odyssey 2 video game system were some of the most beautiful ever made. Inside the box here, number one is the video game cartridge itself. The shown label, the Magnavox Odyssey 2 cartridges were known for the handle on the top of the cartridge. Let's set that aside. I'll show you some of the video game itself at some other point when we actually play through the game. Underneath this cover here, there are the game pieces. This is the card on which these game pieces were punched out. Some pieces that have eyeballs on them, Egyptian looking eyes. There's one hourglass piece. This set I have here has all of the pieces by the way. Here are some game pieces. They have castles on the top and various other symbols on the bottom. I believe they denote what kind of dungeon you go into. Arrows. There's a diamond. And also, you can hear these are metal coins, not plastic. With the rest of the contents here, we have the instruction manual. Again, just very classy. Reflective gold cover, front and back, close up of the dragon there. The inside, the ring full circle bends its beginnings to its end. Parchment in the first page. Then we start seeing the interior illustrations. These are the various characters you can play, the warrior, the wizard, etc. Here's what your characters look like on the cv screen. Now here we have an explanation of the monsters you will encounter. There are the dragons. There are the Spidroth tarantulas. There are the doomwing bloodthirsts and the orcs of course. This bloodthirst is awesome. Cthulhu himself is in this game. Here's a look at the dungeons. That's what they look like on the TV screen. The infernos. Again, the television version. The shifting halls. And the crystal caverns. Apparently what happens is as you play along on the board game, when you enter the dungeons, you turn to your TV set into the video game console and actually fight monsters. What a great idea. Here's instructions about how you start the game, how you choose your characters. This is an explanation of what you will see as how you work the controllers. Here's a look at the battle you will do with the various monsters. Now, what little experimentation I did with the video game. I've not played through the game. I did turn on the cartridge and I experimented briefly with the shifting halls here. I do not recall being able to have your swordsmen appear inside the walls. I believe that's a mistake. We'll find that out later. I also discovered that you do not need to be right in front of the dragon for him to kill you. He will kill you from across the room. It's not going to be as easy as it looks. And there's our players surrounded by doomwings and spydoths and orcs. They look like they're in serious trouble. And now comes the game board. There's the game cartridge, the keyboard overlay for the console and the game board, which I'll show you in a second. Here are the game pieces that I was showing you earlier and more instructions about how to play. Here's more info about playing on the board. Speaking of the board, let's take a look. First of all, here's the overlay for the keyboard on the console. Now for the board itself. The board is very thin. Here is this folded into four pieces and it's cardboard thin. But boy, does it look good. Check this out. Let me zoom out here. They obviously had fun naming the parts of this board. Here is Applegarth, Zambia, and Rip Roria. I'll give you a closer look at some of these parts. The Sea of Despair, the Straits of Sharon, Dagon's Bog, Rampant Bay. My favorite area is up here in Rip Roria. There's the Morgoth Moors, the Valley of Fear. And what has to be my favorite township, if you can call it a township, Axe-Kiss. I wonder what goes on in Axe-Kiss. Rindle's Thrall. Just a really interesting looking game. Now someday I will get out the Odyssey 2 console, get a couple of people here, and we'll do an actual playthrough of the game, which will include video of the television screen so we can see how it works. See you then.