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Author: GN Team - Published: 7 May 2025, 8:04 pm
Akalabeth: World of Doom is often considered the first stepping stone in the evolution of Western computer role-playing games. Developed in 1980 by Richard Garriott, who was still a high school student at the time, Akalabeth was created initially as a personal experiment in computer game design. It was written in BASIC for the Apple II and drew inspiration from Garriott’s love for Dungeons & Dragons, a game he played regularly under the nickname "Lord British," which would become his pseudonym in later game credits.
The earliest version of Akalabeth was not designed with commercial intent. Garriott developed it simply to entertain himself and his friends. The game, however, caught the attention of California Pacific Computer Company after Garriott decided to sell copies of it in Ziploc bags at a local computer store in Houston, Texas. The company offered to publish it, and Akalabeth ended up selling around 30,000 copies — a remarkable number for the time (not all sources agree on this number).
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Seven Cities of Gold by Ozark Softscape, is often considered one of the most groundbreaking strategy and exploration games of its era. Designed by Dan Bunten (later Danielle Bunten...
Year: 1986 Genre: Simulation
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Akalabeth: World of Doom is often considered the first stepping stone in the evolution of Western computer role-playing games. Developed in 1980 by Richard Garriott, who was still ...
Year: 1980 Genre: Role Playing
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Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is a historical real-time strategy game created by Ensemble Studios. It was published by Microsoft in 1999 for Windows and Macintosh. As you can...
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Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War is a historic real-time strategy game developed by Stainless Steel Studios and Midway Games and published in 2006. In 2008 a free version of the game was released supported by the US Air Force.
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Halo: Combat Evolved is a sci-fi first-person shooter created by Bungie Studios for Microsoft and released for the Xbox in 2001. GearBox later ported it to Windows and Macintosh in 2003.
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Age of Empires is a historical real-time strategy game created by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft on October 15, 1997, for Windows. Later it was also published for Mac OS on August 22, 1998.
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Disney's Tarzan (also known as Tarzan Action Game) is a platformer created by Eurocom Developments and published by Disney in 1999. Released for PlayStation and Windows, later, it was also ported to Nintendo 64.
Year: 1999 Genre: Platformer
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