Rogue

Description

This classic dungeon-crawl uses ASCII characters (letters and some symbols) and basic colors to depict a rogue's epic adventure through the infamous Dungeon of Doom. Using a host of weapons and items, he explores the dark dungeons one step at a time in turn-based mode. There are 25 different types of monsters, symbolized with their initial letter (L for Leprechaun for instance) and they have different abilities and modes of attack. The dungeons are different each time you play the game. In their deepest level the greatest prize awaits...

Alternate Titles

• "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

Part of the Following Groups

• Games featuring hunger daemons
• Games with randomly generated environments
• Rogue variants

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User Reviews

And to think I played this game in 2003...	DOS	Indra Depari of 'da Clan Depari (13163)
I Still Play This Today	DOS	AstroNerdBoy (40)
They say that simplicity is the key to perfection...	DOS	Silverblade (1430)
Ahhh. The quest for the... What Am I Searching for again?	DOS	Chris Martin (1116)
The best RPG EVER	DOS	Starstorm (2)

The Press Says

Abandonia	DOS	Mar 22, 2007	4 out of 5	80
Happy Computer	Atari ST	Sep, 1986	73 out of 100	73

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Amiga version of Rogue for PC	1	Ardor Mar 01, 2009
Game port listing needs to be removed?	33	Indra Depari of 'da Clan Depari (13163) Dec 13, 2008
Public Domain or Commercial?	3	General Error (3821) Nov 06, 2007

Trivia

The commercial Rogue versions didn't fare too well, as lots of pirated copies existed. The later DOS versions were copy protected (starting at the latest with V1.48 published by Epyx), in an interesting way. You could actually play a pirated copy, but if you did, you suffered six times the normal damage from monster attacks -- which quickly ended an already pretty hard game, it was hard to even get to level two. On the tombstone, you could then read the evocative message:

REST IN PEACE

Software Pirate

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Copy Protection Mafia