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Rogue is considered to be the first ever graphical adventure and roleplaying game. The game was first developed in 1980, mostly for college students who played through terminals and hooked up through BBSes.
Many different versions of Rogue exist, for many different types of computers, including, PC(Windows and DOS), Macintosh, Commodore 64, Apple II, and Tandy. Rogue was even packaged along with Version 4.2 of BSD UNIX in the early 1980s. Even some browser-based versions of Rogue exist on the Internet.
Rogue is primitive, in the sense that the 'graphics' were nothing more than ASCII characters representing the player, and various monsters in the Dungeons of Doom. Many players and critics of Rogue have called it 'unbeatable,' as no two games are different. The program itself builds the dungeon, so the game maps are different each time the game is loaded.
Many other roleplaying games have tried to emulate various traits of Rogue, which spawned an entire genre of games called 'Rogue-likes.'
Rogue is considered abandonware now, which means that the game can be downloaded and copied, free of charge.
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