Dungeon

Moby ID: 49819

Released

December 1979 on Commodore PET/CBM

Credits

1 person

Publishers

Code Works, The

Moby Score: n/a
Players: (1)
Collected By: 4 players

Genre: Role-playing (RPG)
Perspective: Top-down
Visual: Fixed / flip-screen
Gameplay: Roguelike
Interface: Direct control

Media Type: Cassette Tape
Input Devices Supported/Optional: Keyboard
Number of Players Supported: 1 Player

See Also

Dungeon (1975 on Terminal)
Dungeon (1975 on Terminal)
Dungeon (1976 on Mainframe)
Dungeon (1980 on Mainframe, 1994 on DOS)
Dungeon (1983 on FM-7, PC-88)
Dungeon (1993 on Atari ST)
Dungeon (2009 on Windows)

Description

Dungeon is a Roguelike game. Like other games in this genre the player explores a dungeon in a top-down view and must collect loot and kill enemies to progress.

Each dungeon is generated randomly and only becomes visible during exploration. The player can only see one tile far. When encountering a monster the game automatically determines whether the player wins the fight or not, and (if the player survives) how much hitpoints he or she loses.

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Credits (Commodore PET/CBM version)

Game by

Brian Sawyer

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Trivia

Grues

Curiously, for a game whose publication pre-dates the commercial publication of Zork, its roster of potential enemies includes the creatures Infocom made famous, grues. The author must either have spent some time on a terminal (or at an MIT computer lab) playing Mainframe Zork (in a twist, itself also eventually distributed under the name "Dungeon"), or derived it from the same original source the Infocom Imps had read, the Dying Earth novels of Jack Vance.

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Game added by vedder.

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Game added January 9, 2011. Last modified February 13, 2023.