Oubliette Bear Systems / Human Engineered Software 1983

Oubliette is one of the earliest party-based role-playing games, first on mainframe computers in 1977. It is an open-ended hack-and-slash through a multilevel dungeon with a party of 1-6 characters, chosen from possible classes including Fighters, Priests and Thieves. They will gain experience, jewelry and armor as the adventure progresses, but they will also age and may eventually die. Spells are triggered through typing their activation codes. The party can be changed before every trip to the dungeon by dropping off / picking up characters from the local tavern. The game can be launched both in text mode and in graphical mode (there will just be a first-person view), but, of course, the graphics in it are actually extremely arbitrary (which does not prevent a true oldgamer from enjoying a really old RPG). Please note that the use of spells (and without magic, the game can never be completed) in any case requires typing special commands on the keyboard.
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