 With two or more players, the screen scrolls according to the average location of the group to encourage cooperation.The game that eventually became "Dandy" had been originally written in the fall of 1982 as "Thesis of Terror", Jack Palevich's MIT bachelor's thesis.The original concept was for a five-person game, four players on Atari computers acting as graphical terminals, and a fifth machine acting as dungeon master controlling the action from a separate computer.