The Ten Greatest PC Games Ever
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Originally developed in 1980 for Unix mainframe systems, Rogue eventually found its way to personal computers, including (in 1984) the IBM PC in 1984; the image shown here is from that version of the game. An ASCII-character-cell classic, Rogue not only spawned a genre known as roguelikes, but also mothered the action role-playing game (RPG)--which is slightly ironic, since Rogue is turn-based.
Nearly every dungeon hack-and-slash (for example, Gauntlet and Diablo) and every overhead dungeon crawl RPG (such as Baldur's Gate) ultimately derives from Rogue. And with its randomly generated dungeons, the original is still as much fun to play today as it was in 1980.
