Re: What was the first RPG?

[Alberto Roffe <roffe@delphi.com>]

Fredrik Ekman <ekman@lysator.liu.se> writes:
 
>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 very first RPG was called "Adventure", and that's where the
term "Adventure games" comes from.
It was developed by Will Crowther and Donald Woods, for a mainframe.
 
This game introduced the concept of traveling around an environment, collect
treasures, fighting enemies, etc. all using only 2 word commands: a verb and
a noun. Also, everything is handled only with text. No graphics.
 
I have a version of this game that runs in any Apple II with 48K (in
DOS 3.3).
It came in a disk titled "Golden Oldies", along with 3 other classics
(Eliza, Life and Pong).
With this disk, it was also included a booklet with a history of each game
(and that's where I got the information above).
 
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