Beneath Apple Manor

aka: Beneath Apple Manor: The Special Edition
Moby ID: 8610

Trivia

Development

The game was coded in BASIC.

Historical significance

Procedurally-generated dungeon games like this one are generally called "rogue-like", but this game was the first of its kind published two years before Rogue. The Apple II claims another credit for genre creation.

Public Domain release

The IBM version of the game was released into the public domain by the author, Don Worth himself.

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Trivia contributed by John Romero, Nélio, Patrick Bregger.