Re: What was the first RPG?

[harold.h@genie.com (Harold Hislop)]

Fredrik Ekman (ekman@lysator.liu.se) said:
 
>> I am wondering what the very first computer RPG was. I used to believe
>> that it was Rogue (released in 1983, I think), but the other day I
>> happened to take a look at my old Temple of Apshai box and found that
>> it was copyrighted in 1983, so I suppose neither of these games were
>> influenced by the other, in spite of many similarities.
 
The earliest RPG that I can recall was "Adventure" (also known as
Colossal Cave) written by.... uhm... the names fade into antiquity :/
 
A version of this was published by "A Bit Better Associates" and was
included with many Apple ][+ systems that were purchased with DOS 3.3
and a Disk][ drive (as a package deal)
 
This RPG first gained fame as, of all things, a hardware and OS debug
tool on DEC mainframes. It is available now days for many platforms,
including Apple II, Mac, MS-DOS compatable, and Unix compatable.
 
Before this there was that mouldy oldie known as Hunt the Wumpus...
which some may claim wasn't a true RPG, but given it's age and
what it spawned I feel was one of the very first RPGs.
 

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-Harold Hislop
Hardware Coordinator,
Apple II RoundTable, GEnie
14Mhz/32k TWGS, 1Mb Rev-C RamFast, Prototype ROM_03 in tower
(Heritage Mac hardware also spoken (great IIgs peripheral ;))