Rogue – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Rogue: An Obligatory Mid-Week Post

On May 14, 2020May 15, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

It took me a bit longer to get Haunt up and running than I thought it would – I had to figure out how to use Telnet – and to be honest my blogging fervour has somewhat subsided from the insane level it was at back in April. So I […]

Rogue: Death, Genocide, and Data Compilation

On May 10, 2020May 10, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

I’ve just recently started up a new D&D campaign using video chat, so that’s eaten up a decent amount of my time in the last few days. As such, I haven’t done much gaming aside from the odd bit of Rogue. I’d like to be able to say that I’ve […]

Rogue: Email Addresses Make Me Nervous Now

On April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Hey, guess what? You’re not going to believe this, but I haven’t beaten Rogue yet. Okay, so that’s pretty much to be expected. To be honest, I haven’t even gotten close. My best efforts saw me getting down to level 19; in one of those I took one step right […]

Priority CRPG 2: Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom (1980)

On April 26, 2020April 26, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

In the history of gaming, there are plenty of games that are important milestones. Games that changed the direction of the medium, or set a benchmark for their genre going forward. There are only a handful of games, however, that are so significant and set such a precedent that an […]

Rogue – Dmitry Krapivin’s Roguelike release for the ZX Spectrum

On November 22, 2018November 23, 2018 By Neil G

We’ve had a lot of Amiga and C64 news this week, so to balance it all out we have a new ZX Spectrum game to show you in the form of a roguelike called ‘ Rogue ‘, which was developed by Dmitry Krapivin. Now if you like traversing through maze like […]

Rogue: Story and Gameplay

On February 15, 2010September 6, 2018 By ciathyza

There are many versions of Rogue floating about. The original was published in 1980; the one I ended up playing was a 1985 DOS-based re-release (I’m playing in order of original release, not in order of the particular edition I find). The instruction manual sets up the story: you are […]

Rogue: the most difficult CRPG I’ve played

On February 15, 2010September 6, 2018 By ciathyza

The original version had even more primitive ASCII graphics. I played a 1984 update. Rogue was the second game I played as part of this little project, and it nearly ended the project. Computer games can up the difficulty–and, hence, much of the excitement–based on how often they allow you […]