┌─ FOUNDATIONAL GAMES ─┐ │ 10 games with this tag │ └─────────────────────────┘
01. dnd (PLATO)
dnd (PLATO) is a computer role-playing game developed by Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood for the PLATO system in 1975. The game represents one of the earliest computer implementations of Dungeons & Drago...
02. pedit5
Pedit5 is recognized as the first computer dungeon crawler, developed in late 1975 by Reginald "Rusty" Rutherford at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The game was created as a solo program...
03. Mines of Mordor
Mines of Mordor is a roguelike computer game developed by Scott Cunningham in 1979 for the TRS-80 personal computer. It represents one of the earliest roguelike games developed for home computers and ...
04. Rogue
Rogue is the foundational video game that defined the roguelike genre, created by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman (with later contributions from Ken Arnold and Jon Lane) at UC Berkeley. The game was inc...
05. Hack
Hack is a roguelike game released in 1982, developed collaboratively by Jay Fenlason and other contributors as an enhanced version of Rogue. The game introduced pet companions, shop mechanics, and rel...
06. Ancalagon
Ancalagon is a roguelike game developed by Hans Pennings for the Philips P2000 computer, released in 1983. The game is historically significant as one of the earliest non-English roguelike implementat...
07. Moria
Moria is Robert Alan Koeneke's 1983 literary roguelike that brought Tolkien's Middle-earth to the genre, establishing the template for depth-based dungeon exploration and spawning the entire Angband f...
08. Advanced Rogue
Advanced Rogue is a roguelike game developed by Michael Morgan and Ken Dalka, released in 1984. It represents the first major expansion and enhancement of the original Rogue, introducing significant n...
09. Super Rogue
Super Rogue is an enhanced version of Rogue developed by Robert Dan Henry in 1984 as part of the mid-1980s Unix community enhancement wave. The game features improved visual presentation, expanded mec...
10. Torneko no Daibouken: Fushigi no Dungeon
**The console roguelike revolution** - Chunsoft's **legendary achievement** that created the **first Mystery Dungeon game** featuring **Dragon Quest's Torneko** as protagonist, establishing the **Myst...