What was the first RPG?

[Rick_Micha...@cup.portal.com]

BTW: Odd, but I got the C Users Group CD for Xmas from my son & guess
what? It has Hunt The Wumpus on it. I'd have to double check, but I
think it's a version hacked on a CP/M box. I'm going to give it a look
today, if anybody is interested in this moldy oldy let me know. Like
people have noted, it's more adventure then RPG but if you want to
see what a thinking person's game was back in the mid '70s, this is
a good example. The only thing you have to do to make it a real time
warp is change your output from your screen to your printer! At least
for me, the information science <I guess this was before there were
computer science majors> group wouldn't let me near a CRT terminal.
Rick

[csh...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca]

The oldest RPG I can think of was a cassette tape based game for the
Apple II+ called Fracas. Anybody heard of it? I believe it predates
Temple of Apshai.

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[Tracy S. Schuhwerk]

csh...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
: The oldest RPG I can think of was a cassette tape based game for the

: Apple II+ called Fracas. Anybody heard of it? I believe it predates
: Temple of Apshai.

Wasn't Ultima I release on the Original Apple (Apple I)?

I had Temple of Apshai and Gateway to Apshai on my Radio Shack
Model I... that was around 1980/81. I may still have the whole
package and tape for the Apshai games packed away down with the
old Model I (yeah... I know... The Boston Computer Museum got
someone elses before I could donate mine! :-)).

-- Tracy Schuhwerk
home: tr...@amiga.iac.net

[Phil Priest]

I seem to remember that Richard Garriot came out with Alkabeth on the Apple
I around '79?