Roguelike

A roguelike is a computer game that borrows some of the elements of another computer game, 1980's Rogue. A roguelike is a superficially two-dimensional dungeon crawling computer game, usually with simple text or ASCII "graphics" and many with "tiles" which replace the rather limited character set with a wider array.

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The genre is named after Rogue, however, some features of Rogue existed in earlier games, notably: Adventure (1975), Dungeon (1975 for PDP-10 mainframes), and dnd (1974, written for the PLATO system on CDC computers). Becoming widely available with the Berkeley Software Distribution version of UNIX, Rogue went on to become far more popular than any of its predecessors.

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