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Re: What was the first RPG?

Subject: Re: What was the first RPG?
From: tracy@amiga.iac.net (Tracy S. Schuhwerk)
Date: 1996/01/04
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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

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