History VideoGame / Rogue

A Java-based online version of the game can be found [[http://www.hexatron.com/rogue/ here]] and is free to play, while the Internet Archive hosts an online emulated version of the DOS version [[https://archive.org/details/msdos_Rogue_1983 here]]. Ports to modern UsefulNotes/{{operating system}}s can be found [[http://rogue.rogueforge.net/rogue-5-4/ here]].

'''''Rogue''''' is a 1980 video game and one of the first {{roguelike}}s[[note]]According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_roguelike_video_games the other wiki]], ''Beneath Apple Manor'' and ''DUNGEON'' are two roguelikes that both predated ''Rogue'' by two years[[/note]], the one for which all others are named. A top-down, dungeon crawling Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game, it used [=ASCII=]-based graphics to depict the dungeon, player and everything in the dungeon.

* ExcusePlot: You have to go retrieve the Amulet of Yendor. According to the manual, this is the test at the end of your training to join the Fighteŕ's Guild. That's it.

A Java-based online version of the game can be found [[http://www.hexatron.com/rogue/ here]] and is free to play. Ports to modern UsefulNotes/{{operating system}}s can be found [[http://rogue.rogueforge.net/rogue-5-4/ here]].

* ASCIIArt: When you die, you get an ASCII tombstone with your reason of death on it.

* SdrawkcabName: Yendor is backwards for Rodney. In most versions Rodney is the player character's default name if you leave your name blank when prompted for it at the beginning of the game.

* ExcusePlot: You have to go retrieve the Amulet of Yendor. That's it.

A Java-based online version of the game can be found [[http://www.hexatron.com/rogue/ here]] and is free to play. Ports to modern {{operating system}}s can be found [[http://rogue.rogueforge.net/rogue-5-4/ here]].

A Java-based online version of the game can be found [[http://www.hexatron.com/rogue/ here]] and is free to play.

->''Rogue is a visual CRT based fantasy game which runs under the UNIX+ timesharing system. Your goal is to grab as much treasure as you can, find the Amulet of Yendor, and get out of the Dungeons of Doom alive.''
-->--''A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom''

''Rogue'' was originally written as a test of the curses screen handling library, which became one of the most widely used Unix application libraries. Epyx (the popular game publisher in the 80s) sold a commercial version using tile-based graphics.

Rogue is a 1980 video game and one of the first {{roguelike}}s[[note]]According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_roguelike_video_games the other wiki]], Beneath Apple Manor and DUNGEON are two roguelikes that both predated Rogue by two years[[/note]], the one for which all others are named. A top-down, dungeon crawling Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game, it used [=ASCII=]-based graphics to depict the dungeon, player and everything in the dungeon.

One of the unique features of ''Rogue'' was that each new game had a completely new, randomly generated map. Most games of the time, such as ''ColossalCave'', were completely pre-scripted or had limited randomness. This feature became one of the defining elements of the roguelike genre.

!!Tropes (of most this game is either the TropeMaker or TropeCodifier):

* RandomlyGeneratedLevels: Even so, each level had exactly 9 rooms. Before dungeon level 10, some of these "rooms" would be merely a transition hallway between two more distant rooms; and after level 10, some "rooms" would be square mazes of corridors whose exits were calculated as though the entire "room" lived in the maze's upper-left corner.

* RandomlyGeneratedLevels

One of the unique features of ''Rogue'' was that each new game had a completely new, randomly generated map. Most games of the time, such as ''ColossalCave'' were completely pre-scripted, or had limited randomness. This feature became one of the defining elements of the roguelike genre.

Rogue is a 1980 video game and one of the first {{roguelike}}s[[labelnote:*]]According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_roguelike_video_games the other wiki]], Beneath Apple Manor and DUNGEON are two roguelikes that both predated Rogue by two years[[/labelnote]], the one for which all others are named. A top-down, dungeon crawling Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game, it used [=ASCII=]-based graphics to depict the dungeon, player and everything in the dungeon.

* SdrawkcabName: Yendor is backwards for Rodney. If you leave your name blank when prompted for it at the beginning of the game, you automatically get named Rodney.

* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: At extreme hunger levels your character first starts fainting and eventually dies.

Rogue is a 1980 video game and one of the first {{roguelike}}s[[hottip:*:According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_roguelike_video_games the other wiki]], Beneath Apple Manor and DUNGEON are two roguelikes that both predated Rogue by two years]], the one for which all others are named. A top-down, dungeon crawling Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game, it used [=ASCII=]-based graphics to depict the dungeon, player and everything in the dungeon.

''Rogue'' was originally written as a test of the curses screen handling library, which became one of the most widely used Unix application libraries. Epyx (the popular game publisher in the 80s) sold a commercial version using tile-based graphics for older Macs.

* OhCrap: Occasionally a "monster party" room will pop up, in which you are vastly outnumbered by more monsters than you thought could fit in the space. Normally you can make a good attempt at beating them by backing into the hallway and hacking and slashing your way through, but once in a while you get a monster party room on a level with one. Giant. Cavern. Good luck with that...

''Rogue'' was originally written as a test of the curses screen handling library, which became one of the most widely used Unix application libraries.

* SdrawkcabName: Yendor is backwards for Rodney.

One of the unique features of ''{{Rogue}}'' was that each new game had a completely new, randomly generated map. Most games of the time, such as ''ColossalCave'' were completely pre-scripted, or had limited randomness. This feature became one of the defining elements of the roguelike genre.