Re: What was the first RPG?

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lynnj@netcom.com (Lynn Johannesen) wrote:
>Fredrik Ekman (ekman@lysator.liu.se) wrote:

>Original Adventure was by Crowther & Woods.  The Scott Adams adventures 
>came later.  (That's not the same guy who writes Dilbert BTW.)
>
>None of those are RPGs.  The first RPG would be either Akalabeth
>(which I never played) or Wizardry 1.  We have a firm date of 1981
>on the latter.  Can anybody supply a date for Akalabeth?

According to my _Official Book of Ultima_

"Garriot's first published game was a one-player scenario with activites 
that primarily entailed exploring dungeons, fighting monsters and 
scooping up treasure. Though a relatively simple affair, its popularity 
with the world's first computer games -who bought over 30,000 copies ... 
-turned Alkabaleth into one of the classics... From 1978 to 1981 it was 
voted as one of the top 30 games by _Softalk Magazine_..."

(p.9, Official Book of Ultima c1990, used without permission...yadda 
yadda yadda)


It also goes on to state, that while some of Wizardry's levels were being 
constructed as early as 1977, the game itself didn't come out till 1981
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