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Rogue
Today I was reading something and came across the word "rogue", which reminded me of an old text-based game, of that name, which I used to play on the computer (a Radio Shack/Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer) when I was little, in the mid-80's.
I then searched the net for something similar that I could play, and I found Rogue Clone (a DOS clone, the download is only 60K!) at SourceForge! It's quite identical to the original as I can remember it!
you hit the hobgoblin hit
------------- #############
| | # # #
| +######## # #
| | # #
-----+------- # #
##### # #######
--+----- # ---------------+-------
| | # | |
| | ---------+---- ######H@+ % |
| | | +## | |
| +################+ | | |
-----+-- ---------+---- -----------+-----------
######### ## #######
# # #
-------------+--- ----------+---------- -------+---------
| | | | | |
| +### | | | |
| | # | | | |
| | #####+ | -----------------
| | ---------------------
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Level: 1 Gold: 25 Hp: 18(21) Str: 16(16) Arm: 4 Exp: 2/13
Rogue is a sort of RPG/action game. You have to fight monsters, collect gold and increase your strength and experience. What's cool about it is that levels are random-generated, so you'll never play a same level twice.
A level starts with you (@ character, in green for your viewing pleasure) in a room, and you have to find ways to the other rooms. + is a door, # is a corridor, % is a staircase to the next level, and all letters of the alphabet are monsters of all kinds (see H, the hobgoblin, featured in red).
Even though it may seem simple, it's quite addicting! Now I'm off to play some more... :)
Posted on February 3, 2004 at 22:16 | Tweet
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Salut Patrick, je me rappelle tres bien ce jeu (Rogue)
on a eu des heures de plaisir a y jouer, je crois que je
l'ai encore. Que de souvenir !
Bye et a bientot ! Pierre
Posted by Pierre Benny on February 7, 2004 at 00:41
Il me semblait bien que tu te rappellerais de ça. :)
J'étais pas mal content de trouver cette version pour PC! C'est toujours le fun de rejouer à un bon vieux jeu comme ça!
Posted by Patrick on February 7, 2004 at 00:50