I refuse to believe Rogue was a real game or ever popular
No one knew what the fuck Rogue was in the 90's, nothing about it was iconic or memorable but 20 years later every damn indie game is a 'roguelike' or 'roguelite'
I'm not just saying this as someone who grew up playing consoles, no PC gamers said a single word about Rogue in the 90's, the game was forgotten and irrelevant
So I'm calling this Rogue revival what it is, gaslighting
As far as I know Rogue did fairly well on it's home PC port, where it really got popular and inspired a genre though was on I think unix mainframes, people played it at college campuses and universities in the late 70's into 80's. The much more popular game in the Rogue lineage is for sure Nethack. People just started calling that genre of gaming roguelike because of the original game, no matter how good or bad it was. Rogue is too hard and too bare bones for modern gaming standards, but back then it was something else. It was the closet people could come to playing a virtual game of Dungeons & Dragons.
I refuse to believe Rogue was a real game or ever popular
No one knew what the fuck Rogue was in the 90's, nothing about it was iconic or memorable but 20 years later every damn indie game is a 'roguelike' or 'roguelite'
I'm not just saying this as someone who grew up playing consoles, no PC gamers said a single word about Rogue in the 90's, the game was forgotten and irrelevant
So I'm calling this Rogue revival what it is, gaslighting
As far as I know Rogue did fairly well on it's home PC port, where it really got popular and inspired a genre though was on I think unix mainframes, people played it at college campuses and universities in the late 70's into 80's. The much more popular game in the Rogue lineage is for sure Nethack. People just started calling that genre of gaming roguelike because of the original game, no matter how good or bad it was. Rogue is too hard and too bare bones for modern gaming standards, but back then it was something else. It was the closet people could come to playing a virtual game of Dungeons & Dragons.
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