Re: What was the first RPG?

[mcarmack@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Michael Carmack)]

mjs (mjs@unix.asb.com) wrote:
: David Putnam <dputnam@allencomm.com> wrote:

: >What about Adventure for the Atari-2600 cica 1978-1979? don't quote
: >me on those dates but it seems as long ago

: Are you referring to the game where you control a little box and your goal was
: to get the chalice back to the yellow\gold castle? That brought back some fond
: memories... that was a fun game. Actually, it was the best game for the old
: 2600. No way an RPG though. I hated that DAMN bat......

Maybe not a real RPG, but I could see it classes as an "action-RPG" like
on the console systems.  I'd call it an ancient ancestor to Legend of
Zelda, for example.
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