Jake in the desertJul 3, 2023

I'm kinda obsessed with Rogue and roguelike games in general (and weird monsters). I was reading this great article from 2016 about their history that I boosted yesterday (thanks to @WoodooProd for alerting me to it).

As I read and poked around the web to check out these early roguelikes, I loved these two screens from a SUPER early roguelike (Pedit5, from 1975).

Monsters loading! 🤣

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Show threadrodneylivesJul 11, 2023
@jake4480 I've played a significant amount of pedit5! It has a different feel to roguelikes, but has definite similarities in theme.
Show threadJake in the desertJul 11, 2023
@rodneylives @WoodooProd oh nice! I still need to try it myself. Like most of the ones I save.. I played Mac Moria as a kid on my family's Performa in the 90s and got hooked, and there's so many modern roguelikes on Switch or Steam.. so many to try. Hadn't even hears of Pedit5 til @WoodooProd posted that article! The history is fascinating.
Show threadrodneylivesJul 23, 2023

@jake4480 The place I played it is Cyber1, which is an internet-facing PLATO system you can apply for an account on. Try cyber1.org (when I checked it just now the site was down, but I suspect it's temporary).

@WoodooProd

Show threadJake in the desert
@rodneylives @WoodooProd hmm yeah seems down to me but I will keep checking - thanks!
Jul 23, 2023 at 3:48pmWeb