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Re: What was the first RPG?

Subject: Re: What was the first RPG?
From: mjs@unix.asb.com (mjs)
Date: 1995/12/22
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, comp.sys.apple2, rec.games.roguelike.misc
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badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) wrote:

>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.

I agree with this. I think that's why someone thought that Adventure for the old
Atari 2600 was an RPG. There were castles and dragons in that game. But all you
did was a find a chalice and bring it back to the castle. Where's the role
playing in that?

References:
- Re: What was the first RPG?
  - From: harold.h@genie.com (Harold Hislop)
- Re: What was the first RPG?
  - From: fletcher@u.washington.edu (Brent Michael Krupp)
- Re: What was the first RPG?
  - From: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
- Re: What was the first RPG?
  - From: badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger)

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