> http://armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1081 > > Surely, RPGs existed on our beloved mainframes before or around this time > didn't they? It pre-dates me, but I've seen discussion about it here. > Maybe the author needs a little history lesson??? :-)
*little*? Great steaming hunks of history lesson, methinks. I'm sure that Adam will chime in -- this is his specialty area -- but I'd argue that both SpaceWar and Star Trek are RPGs and predate anything in this article. Ditto for ADVENT (in fact ADVENT.SAV on my TOPS-10 system is dated 1970, which seems wrong, but could be valid. I'm not sure I ever updated that system to be Y2K-safe, so it could be off. My ITS system won't boot at the moment, so can't check there). The discussion of the microcomputer games is fairly competent, though. Even if he is likely to be eaten by a grue. -- db
