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APh Technological Consulting, Intellivision, Mattel Electronics

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin, Intellivision

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An early, proto RPG based on the TSR AD&D universe, released for the Intellivision in 1983. It’s actually a sequel to the previous Intellivision AD&D game: Cloudy Mountain.

Treasure of Tarmin is one of my all-time favourite Intellivision games; it’s like an early prototype version of Dungeon Master, with crude graphics and minimal sound. That said: playing Treasure of Tarmin is a great experience if you learn how to play it properly. Reading the manual helps. As does configuring the controls correctly.

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APh Technological Consulting, Intellivision, Mattel Electronics

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain, Intellivision

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This early, prototype RPG was initially released in 1982 under the title of “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” and was later re-named as Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain to distinguish it from its sequel, Treasure of Tarmin.

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DreamForge Intertainment, MS-DOS, PC, SSI, US Gold

Dungeon Hack, PC

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SSI‘s Dungeon Hack is an RPG that generates random dungeons, or custom dungeons, and is one big real-time battle through a Forgotten Realms world, in the style of Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder. It’s a never-ending dungeon crawl that gets progressively harder, and even has its own high score table!

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Athena, Famicom Disk System

Lutter, Famicom Disk System

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Lutter is an obscure-but-interesting combination of platform game and maze game, but with RPG elements – like levelling – also thrown into the mix.

You play the titular Lutter, a knight of the realm on a quest to rescue the princess from a maze-like castle of platforms, ladders, doors and monsters.

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Famicom Disk System, Konami

Esper Dream, Famicom Disk System

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Esper Dream is a superb real-time, combat-based Role-Playing Game for the Famicom Disk System. It was developed by Konami and released in Japan in 1987.

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Blue Byte, gog.com, MS-DOS, PC

Albion, PC

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Blue Byte‘s 1996 PC release, Albion, is a classic science fiction role-playing game.

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Commodore 64, Mastertronic

Master of Magic, Commodore 64

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Master of Magic is an archaic Role-Playing Game that is a throwback to the earliest days of home computing – except that it was released in 1985.

The game was programmed by Richard Darling (of Codemasters fame) with graphics by James Wilson. It was published at a budget price (£2.99) by Mastertronic on their M.A.D. label.

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PlayStation, Square

Parasite Eve, PlayStation

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Parasite Eve is a single-player, horror-themed action/adventure game developed and published by Square in 1998. The game is actually the sequel to the novel Parasite Eve, written by Hideaki Sena.

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Capcom, Super Nintendo

Breath of Fire II, Super Nintendo

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Breath of Fire II is a direct sequel to Breath of Fire, first released in Japan in 1994.

Set 500 years after the events of Breath of Fire, you again assume the role of a young boy called Ryu, this time a descendant of the hero of the first game. You initially begin a quest to clear the name of one of your friends, and this snowballs into something epic.

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Capcom, Super Nintendo

Breath of Fire, Super Nintendo

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Capcom‘s Breath of Fire is the first major, traditional Role-Playing Game from the company and was released on the Super Nintendo in 1993 in Japan, and 1994 in English-speaking territories.

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