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Re: The History of Computer RPGs

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Post by douche »

bencollier49 wrote: post #37

Where is Moraff's World?!? How could they leave that out? A complete classic, with an open world and loads of depth, well before anything like that was standard.

Spent so many hours with the version I had on one of those cheap shareware bundle CDs. I'll never forget the bizarre, cheesy sprites, like the Hawaiian shirt zombies[1], or, really, any of them[2]. Fun game.

[1] https://emptysqua.re/blog/moraffs-world/moraff-monsters.png

[2] https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/13/134049/1...

Re: The History of Computer RPGs

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Bums me out I can never remember name of first crpg I had played. It was early 80s on commadore 64 when you only had a tape deck. The only thing I remember was going through dungeon and around level 3-7 of dungeon you could sit in a chair that would randomly teleport you to someplace in the dungeon, sometimes super deep. There were random chests around and no level restrictions. I remember having a low level character but using teleport chair to find really high level weapons then try to get back to the chair and hopefully randomly teleport back to lower level. Ah the good ole days lol

Re: The History of Computer RPGs

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Post by warp »

Mendenhall wrote: post #42

Bums me out I can never remember name of first crpg I had played. It was early 80s on commadore 64 when you only had a tape deck. The only thing I remember was going through dungeon and around level 3-7 of dungeon you could sit in a chair that would randomly teleport you to someplace in the dungeon, sometimes super deep. There were random chests around and no level restrictions. I remember having a low level characte…

Have you tried asking on gaming forums?, e.g. this exact problem is a popular thread on Giant Bomb:

https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/the-c...

Re: The History of Computer RPGs

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Post by graphitezepp »

mcv wrote: post #32
lowlevel wrote: post #17

I also found this fascinating. I never really saw CRPG being used as an acronym however I have always and always will specify "computer based role playing game" where appropriate vs cerebral role playing games involving books, cards or thoughts/conversations. There are some errors in the text here and there but hopefully we can all nit pick it to death before the hard cover version goes to print.

> I never really saw CRPG being used as an acronym I've always called them CRPGs, to distinguish them from "real" RPGs that involve actual roleplaying, imagination, improvisation and other elements that computers can't really handle. For a roleplayer, a CRPG is a bit of a crutch that can scratch the itch until you can get some friends around the table again. Though perhaps that doesn't quite do CRPGs justice. There a…

It's certainly a worthwhile distinction. Especially in the modern day where 'rpg' elements have been tacked on to everything. Not a lot of actual role playing in something like Mass Effect.

Re: The History of Computer RPGs

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Post by blue1 »

Mendenhall wrote: post #42

Bums me out I can never remember name of first crpg I had played. It was early 80s on commadore 64 when you only had a tape deck. The only thing I remember was going through dungeon and around level 3-7 of dungeon you could sit in a chair that would randomly teleport you to someplace in the dungeon, sometimes super deep. There were random chests around and no level restrictions. I remember having a low level characte…

try here: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/

Re: The History of Computer RPGs

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Post by nolok »

Mendenhall wrote: post #42

Bums me out I can never remember name of first crpg I had played. It was early 80s on commadore 64 when you only had a tape deck. The only thing I remember was going through dungeon and around level 3-7 of dungeon you could sit in a chair that would randomly teleport you to someplace in the dungeon, sometimes super deep. There were random chests around and no level restrictions. I remember having a low level characte…

In addition to asking on dedicated websites and forums, you can also use sites like mobygames. By merely filtering to commodore 64 and RPG there is only 113 games left possible. With further filtering on info you didn't give (what type of view) and/or some brute forcing (aka checking them all) it should be easy to find what you're looking for: http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/c64/role-playing-rpg/

Re: The History of Computer RPGs

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Post by Mendenhall »

warp wrote: post #44
Mendenhall wrote: post #42

Bums me out I can never remember name of first crpg I had played. It was early 80s on commadore 64 when you only had a tape deck. The only thing I remember was going through dungeon and around level 3-7 of dungeon you could sit in a chair that would randomly teleport you to someplace in the dungeon, sometimes super deep. There were random chests around and no level restrictions. I remember having a low level characte…

Have you tried asking on gaming forums?, e.g. this exact problem is a popular thread on Giant Bomb: https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/the-c...

Wanted to thank both of you who responded, I will check it out and appreciate the links! I had not heard of either of these.

Re: The History of Computer RPGs

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Post by thoth »

Mendenhall wrote: post #42

Bums me out I can never remember name of first crpg I had played. It was early 80s on commadore 64 when you only had a tape deck. The only thing I remember was going through dungeon and around level 3-7 of dungeon you could sit in a chair that would randomly teleport you to someplace in the dungeon, sometimes super deep. There were random chests around and no level restrictions. I remember having a low level characte…

Not sure it is the same game, but I played one my Apple //e in that era, named Telengard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telengard). I remember doing exactly as you describe: teleporting very deep and looting a chest for an extremely powerful weapon, and hoping to teleport back so I could rampage for a while. Good times. ;)
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