1980 · Game
Akalabeth: World of Doom (1980)
Richard Garriott's first RPG. Sold at $20 in Ziploc bags, then $35 from California Pacific. MS-DOS re-release on February 17, 1998.
Written in Applesoft BASIC by Garriott as a high-school project; it led directly to the Ultima series.
See 1980 in the interactive timeline
Facts
- Date
- 1980
- Kind
- Game
- Maker or publisher
- California Pacific Computer Co.
- Developer
- Richard Garriott
- Genre
- Role-playing
- Platform
- Apple II
Source: Wikipedia
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