Jan 15, 2013 · The Apple II was later replaced with the II+ (which added the more powerful Applesoft language and floating point math), the IIe (lower case letters on the keyboard and 48k of RAM), the IIc (portable), and the IIgs (higher res graphics and lots more).

The game pictured below is Akalabeth, one of best Apple II games, written at the end of the decade by Richard Garriott. It’s an early dungeon crawler, with simple combat, a world map and a quest inviting the player to hunt down and defeat a series of monsters.

Information regarding date of release, developer, publisher, operating system, subgenre and notability is provided where available. The table can be sorted by clicking on the small boxes next to the column headings. This list does not include MUDs or MMORPGs. It does include roguelikes, action RPGs and tactical RPGs. Platform not recognized.

Jun 1, 2005 · This list, which covers pure RPGs, covers virtually every important RPG created during the 1980s. Certain other games, which may or may not be Apple II originals (Epyx's Dunjonquest series, for example) were always present on the Apple II …

Feb 9, 2013 · A few weeks ago, I fired up an Apple II emulator and delved into the brief world of Dungeon Campaign, a 1978 offering from Robert Clardy that was one of the earliest CRPGs. Wilderness Campaign was his follow-up from 1979, and what a difference a year made.

Sep 7, 2013 · The Dragon's Eye is one of a group of proto-RPGs made for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore PET, and other platforms in the early 1980s.

Feb 26, 2023 · Dungeon of Doom is a 3D dungeon crawler developed for the Apple II by Argon Games. It is one of the earliest CRPGs ever made and has both a 3D maze and grid-based battle system, perhaps the first grid-based battle system in any retail CRPG, far predating more popular games like Dragon & Princess and Ultima Exodus.

Jun 19, 2017 · Game Informer magazine #290 published their list of the top hundred role-playing games of all time, including Apple II classics Wizardry, Ultima, and Wasteland.

Oct 13, 2019 · The dungeons are pictured from a top-down perspective, with each chamber being drawn on the screen as you visit. I've heard that this is excruciatingly slow on the TRS-80 (often a problem with games written in BASIC), but on Apple II the speed was tolerable. Movement takes a bit of getting used to.

Aug 12, 2014 · I've always been a bit of an RPG fan, and when it comes to the Apple II there are tons to choose from. So what are everyone's favorite Apple II RPGs? They don't have to necessarily be the best, just ones you've enjoyed. Here's my list: