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Re: What was the first RPG?

Subject: Re: What was the first RPG?
From: William Shubert <wms@ssd.intel.com>
Date: 1995/12/20
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, comp.sys.apple2, rec.games.roguelike.misc
Organization: Scalable System Division, Intel, Inc.
References: <dwivje5j4m.fsf@katarina.lysator.liu.se> <4b4tbc$9lo@colossus.csl.mtu.edu> <4b5436$7up@kirchhoff2.ee> <DJuvv9.HMI@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>

I remember hearing that Adventure was the first RPG.  But if you're talking about a
roguelike RPG, with a series of flat mazes, character attributes, etc., then I know that
Telengard predates Wizardry and Ultima.  I remember playing something called "Telengard's
Dungeon" on my friend's father's VAX account from DEC when I was in third grade; this would
have been 1977, before the Apple II even existed.
				-Bill (wms@hevanet.com)
				 http://www.hevanet.com/wms/

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