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Re: What was the first RPG?

Subject: Re: What was the first RPG?
From: Phil Priest <phil@blkbox.com>
Date: 1996/01/05
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, comp.sys.apple2, rec.games.rogue
Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686
References: <dwivje5j4m.fsf@katarina.lysator.liu.se> <Pine.A32.3.91.951231054154.27814B-100000@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> <4cfi66$ka0@cheyenne.iac.net>

On 4 Jan 1996, Tracy S. Schuhwerk wrote:

> cshank@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
> : The oldest RPG I can think of was a cassette tape based game for the 
> : Apple II+ called Fracas. Anybody heard of it? I believe it predates 
> : Temple of Apshai.
> 
>   Wasn't Ultima I release on the Original Apple (Apple I)?
> 
>   I had Temple of Apshai and Gateway to Apshai on my Radio Shack
>   Model I... that was around 1980/81.  I may still have the whole
>   package and tape for the Apshai games packed away down with the
>   old Model I (yeah... I know... The Boston Computer Museum got
>   someone elses before I could donate mine! :-)).
> 
>   -- Tracy Schuhwerk
>      home: tracy@amiga.iac.net
> 
I seem to remember that Richard Garriot came out with Alkabeth on the Apple
I around '79?

References:
- What was the first RPG?
  - From: ekman@lysator.liu.se (Fredrik Ekman)
- Re: What was the first RPG?
  - From: cshank@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
- Re: What was the first RPG?
  - From: tracy@amiga.iac.net (Tracy S. Schuhwerk)

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