The History of All RPG Games: 1975 - 1982 From University Computers to Video Game Consoles

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW ALL THE ROLE-PLAYING VIDEO GAMES IN HISTORY?

This book is the result of trying to play all the existing RPG games. This task is practically impossible, mainly because perhaps a lifetime is insufficient to tackle all the published titles. Or because of the difficulty of getting all the platforms for which they were created, many of them already obsolete and out of the market.

But these pages are the result of that insatiable search. They contain the experience of reliving all the games of this wonderful genre of videogames in chronological order. For the moment, this first installment compiles the sensations of the first RPG games, from their birth in the mid-1970s until their jump to video consoles in 1982.

This book summarizes the experience of hundreds of hours of playing, viewing and documentation so that you can enjoy the origin of RPG games in a simple way. I hope you enjoy this project and that it allows you to know the beginnings of a type of videogame that was always special, and which is difficult to investigate and discern about its origins.

In this book you will enjoy:

• The origin of role-playing video games in American universities through the PLATO system and its most outstanding titles: pedit5, orthanc, dnd, Moria, Oubliette, avatar,...

• Beneath Apple Manor, the first commercial RPG game

• Temple of Apshai, the first successful commercial role-playing video game

• Richard "Lord British" Garriott's first experience in RPG games with Akalabeth: World of Doom

• Dunjonquest, the first role-playing video game saga

• The first non-medieval fantasy setting with Space and Space II

• Eamon's community and more than 300 adventures in an open source game

• The successful text-based MUD video games with role-playing elements

• Rogue and the success of randomized scenario generation

• Ultima, the first great open-world game and quest quest, basic elements of modern RPGs

• The first titles of the Wizardry saga, the return to classic role-playing and the management of groups of characters.

• The first (and controversial) experiences with role-playing video games in Japan

• Dungeons of Daggorath and the transition to action RPGs

• Telengard or how to survive the evolution of the genre in its original style

• The first tactical RPG game experience with Tunnels of Doom

• The late leap to video game consoles of role-playing games with Dragonstomper and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

• The lesser-known titles, but equally valuable for the origin of the genre: Dungeon of Death, Fracas, the Apventure saga, Dunzin, Mazies & Crazies, Sword of Fargoal...

Dare to venture into these legendary dungeons and enjoy the origin of one of the best genres of video games!