Description
Rogue is a turn-based dungeon crawler in which the player controls an adventurer who must explore the dangerous Dungeon of Doom in order to retrieve the precious Amulet of Yendor and make it out alive. The player character starts on the upper-most level and slowly makes his way downwards.
The game uses ASCII characters to represent locations, items, monsters, and the protagonist himself. There are twenty-six different types of monsters, symbolized by their initial letters (e.g. L for Leprechaun). Monsters have different abilities and modes of attack. The dungeon and the items in it are randomly generated each time the player begins a new game. Each dungeon level contains a grid of three by three rooms and dead ends.
Levels get progressively more complex and maze-like, and monsters grow in strength the deeper the hero ventures into the dungeon. The player character can acquire better weapons and armor, gain experience points and level up. Should the protagonist perish in the dungeon, the player must restart the game anew.
Alternate Titles
- "Rogue: The Adventure Game" -- In-game title (Epyx DOS version)
- "Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom" -- full original UNIX title
- "ClassicRogue" -- title of Donnie Russell's port
- "AGB_Rogue" -- name of Donnie Russell's Gameboy Advance port
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Trivia
When Epyx re-released the DOS version of
Rogue in 1985, the main addition was a graphical title screen. The developer of this version,
Jon Lane, one of the original developers of Rogue, didn't seem to have liked it: In the source code, the function to display that image is called "epyx_yuck"...
