Re: What was the first RPG?

[duaneg@iquest.net (Duane Guingrich)]

dtmulhol@mtu.edu (Entropy) wrote:
>: Fredrik Ekman (ekman@lysator.liu.se) wrote:
>: : 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
>If you are considering games like rogue, then I *think* I remember
>something about telendgard being written way back on the crays.  Don't
>quite remember the specifics, though.

    The guy who wrote Telengard was a Purdue student. He was DM'ing at the RPG
club when I was going to school there ('83-'86); he may have already graduated by
that time. I think that I had Telengard for my C64 before I went to Purdue ('82), and
so he probably wrote Telengard in '81 or earlier. BTW, Purdue had a Cray at that time,
so he could very well have written it first on that platform. I also remember that
Temple of Apshai came out after Telengard.

      Duane