Amiga Kid Dungeon

[ChristopheF]

Thanks for the information. It confirms that the 2.2 Amiga versions do include a kid dungeon, slightly different from the one found on the Apple IIgs version.

[dayday2008]

You're welcome Christophe, but why did they alter it slightly and not make note of it in the manual?

[Gambit37]

Why would they need to?

[dayday2008]

So that people would know that it existed of course!
I've never encountered the kid dungeon loading instructions like the one I saw on the DM encyclopedia!
How come people buying the game for the first time in the early 90's, or whenever the 2.2 version was released, were not informed of the kids dungeon?

[Ameena]

Maybe it was more of an Easter Egg - something for curious players to discover by accident.

[Gambit37]

Ah, right, your grammar was misleading. I see you were actually asking two questions:
Why did they alter it slightly?
Why did they not make a note of it in the manual?

Your question as worded asks "Why did they not mention in the manual that they altered the dungeon slightly?"

[zoom]

It is really remarkable that they(FTL) where hardly able to cram the game onto a single disk
and then had enough space left for a hidden dungeon !! unbelievable..

It would have been quite a blast if they had mentioned the alteration in the manual.
imagine the text
(we changed the hidden dungeon a bit in this version. But you don´t even know that a hidden dungeon exists or how to start it, don´t you? - so you can savely ignore this message. It is furthermore also rather unlikely that you own an Apple IIgs copy of dungeon master which comes with a slightly different hidden dungeon than the amiga version you hold in your hands so ... never mind .->Better we don´t mention it at all.)
apart from that a rewrite of the manual would have generated costs.

anyway I should really play this dungeon some time. Is it the one with Halk Gonzo Barbarian?

[dayday2008]

Ah, right, your grammar was misleading. I see you were actually asking two questions:
Why did they alter it slightly?
Why did they not make a note of it in the manual?

Your question as worded asks "Why did they not mention in the manual that they altered the dungeon slightly?"

Quite right Gambit, I apologize for this mistake, I had not noticed it Ooops!

Maybe it was more of an Easter Egg - something for curious players to discover by accident.

This could be possible taking into account what zoom said about costs! This way they've created an easter egg, provided that people forgot about it, and also saved money by not having to place the kid dungeon loading instructions in every box.
Does this seem plausible?