Re: The first RPG - summary

[harold@alpha.netusa.net (Harold Stein)]

Fredrik Ekman (ekman@lysator.liu.se) wrote:

: Not quite RPG (according to someone's definition)
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: -Hunt the Wumpus (1978 or earlier)
: -Adventure (about 1978-1979) [There were obviously two games by this title
: for the Atari 2600, one from Atari and one from Sears. I have no idea
: which of these the mentioning referred to.]
: -The Wizard's Castle (1980)

Actually, both the Atari 2600 version and the Sears version were the same 
game.  It looked like Sears had aranged for the game to be slightly 
different titled (They did this for about 40-50 games) and to be packaged 
for their tv game system.   Also, I recently came across a shareware 
version of this game written for the PCs.  (It was floating around the NY 
area on some of the BBSes, about 2-3 months ago.)  Harold S.

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