dnd is one of the first
Dungeon Crawling video games, written in 1974-75 by Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood for the
PLATO Network and based, as its title says, on
Dungeons & Dragons. It was the first video game to use
bosses as well as the
Ur Example of the genre that would later be known as
Roguelikes.
You create a character, by
rolling the dice on five stats and
choosing a class. Then you enter the Whisenwood Dungeon in search of
Plunder and the
Orb.
Being the PLATO Network, the game has graphics, and uses a
3/4 View similar to the dungeons of
The Legend Of Zelda, with the walls in top view, and your character in front view. You explore the dungeon, fighting monsters and collecting treasure. At the end of each level is a
Mini-Boss guarding a teleporter to the next level.
You can leave the dungeon to rest, and use your treasure to buy items from a weapons shop and a magic shop. On your way back in, the teleporters let you skip completed levels.
At the end of the last level is the
Final Boss, the Golden Dragon, who guards the Orb.
Later versions added more dungeons, a Grail to collect in addition to the Orb, and more monsters and items.
dnd inspired several more PLATO games, including
Avatar and
moria. Daniel Lawrence ported
dnd to the PDP-10 minicomputer, and from there to 8-bit microcomputers as
Telengard.
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