Dungeon (video game)

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Dungeon is an early Dungeons & Dragons-based Role-Playing Game, written in 1975 or 1976 by Don Daglow for the PDP-10 minicomputer.

You create a party of adventurers and go Dungeon Crawling. The game is very faithful to the original 1974 edition of Dungeons & Dragons, with the same Class and Level System and races. It used character graphics to create a Top Down View of the dungeon. What you could see was limited by your party's line of sight, and this was affected by the presence of light or darkness, and your party's infravision abilities.

Very similar to the earlier dnd, but this was the first RPG videogame with a whole party instead of just one character.

Tropes used in Dungeon (video game) include:

• An Adventurer Is You: Players control a party of 6 adventurers.
• Class and Level System: Being inspired by the original Dungeons and Dragons.
• Co-Op Multiplayer: It is said that this was supported, albeit players had to share a terminal.
• Dungeon Crawling: Players have to explore the Dungeon.
• Experience Points: Characters earn these to level up.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: According to this blogpost by CRPG Addict, the game is not one that there are known copies of, with information being sourced from old articles about it.
• Level Grinding: Level progression followed closely to the first edition Dungeons & Dragons rules, so it was very hard to level.
• Obvious Beta: Was said to be quite slow, likely stemming from needing to run on PDP-10 computer hardware, while also remaining under the nose of system administrators not wanting to waste valuable computer time on games.
• Role-Playing Game: Among the first computer roleplaying games, and being inspired by the then recent first edition of Dungeons & Dragons.
• Ur Example: For both role playing games and local co-op games, it is among the first.