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
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Trivia
Rogue was first developed in 1980 on PLATO mainframes (first at Santa Cruz, then Berkeley), where it was
extensively beta-tested by fellow Computing Science students. (Three months after moving to Berkeley, more compute cycles were used playing Rogue than running any other program.) The game's creators eventually calculated that their little diversion had used up approximately "a billion and a half dollars of compute time in Silicon Valley". Your taxpayer dollars at work!
