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Re: What was the first RPG?

Subject: Re: What was the first RPG?
From: badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger)
Date: 1995/12/21
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, comp.sys.apple2, rec.games.roguelike.misc
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
References: <4b66hd$a28@rock101.genie.net> <4b8h58$p6@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <qqvinaw1cp.fsf@tartarus.ucsd.edu>

Granted, this thread is somewhat subjective, but I think we can agree
that an CRPG is a game inspired by genuine RPGs such as Dungeons and Dragons.
Thus Rogue and Wizardry are CRPGs but Adventure and Zork are clearly not.

The confusion comes from the fact that both Adventure and Zork have fantasy
settings. While fantasy was in fact the first genre to be the basis of RPGs,
merely being set in a fantasy setting does not make a game an CRPG.

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