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Pedit5
Sign in to savepedit5, alternately called The Dungeon, is a 1975 dungeon crawl role-playing video game developed for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's PLATO computer network by Rusty Rutherford. In it, the player controls a character exploring a fixed, single-level dungeon containing randomly-generated monster encounters and treasure. When they encounter a monster, they can fight the monster with a weapon or spells, or attempt to flee. Characters can be saved between sessions.
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Game details · IGDB
Also known as pedit5, it is the earliest known dungeon crawler role-playing game.
- Released
- 1975
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG)
- Platforms
- PLATO
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Reginald Rutherford
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Country of origin
- United States
- Platform
- mainframe computer
- Game mode
- single-player video game
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- publication date
- 1975-01-01
- input device
- computer keyboard
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Encyclopedic overview
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pedit5, alternately called The Dungeon, is a 1975 dungeon crawl role-playing video game developed for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's PLATO computer network by Rusty Rutherford. In it, the player controls a character exploring a fixed, single-level dungeon containing randomly-generated monster encounters and treasure. When they encounter a monster, they can fight the monster with a weapon or spells, or attempt to flee. Characters can be saved between sessions.
Rutherford developed the game over four to six weeks in late 1975 as a computerized take on the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Its file was named pedit5, as it was stored in the fifth lesson slot of the school's Population & Energy group. It is considered to be the first example of a dungeon crawl video game and one of the first computer role-playing games. An improved version was later created on the PLATO network as orthanc.
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