Going Rogue - Part 01

@magicalex84: Yup, for me it cut off Vinny mid sentence at basically the start of Ben's "first" run.

Finally a reason to comment that is NOT me getting in a internet fight or a complaint about a video not playing!

PLEASE CONSIDER THIS MY ENTRY INTO THE HAT OF NAMES!

Over 500 comments, this rules!

Throw all the bows!

This niche focus of this series is worth my yearly subscription.

If you use my username, it will likely be the best shot something related to me will ever have of beating Rogue... So there's that.

I played a bit of Epyx Rogue when I was a kid, but fell off it pretty quick. The closest to a Roguelike I think most people around my age played when they were kids was probably Master of Magic, a weird little game put out by Mastertronic (on those multi game bin collections) with great music by Rob Hubbard and a much better graphical interface. It wasn't randomly generated, but it was the closest thing to a true rogue I seem to recall a lot of people stumbling into. It wasn't until years later that I picked up Nethack and Angband that I gained an appreciation for the true roguelike. I spent a lot of time with Zangband (an alternate release of Angband). Don't think I ever got remotely close to beating it, though. Another solid one was Sword of Fargoal which got a pretty good iOS re-release a few years back.

Rogue is my favorite colour

This very exciting. But will it be The Run?

Anyone into this, there are some really good modern ones. Tales of Maj'Eyal is the standard. Caves of Qud, also good. Dungeons of Dredmor also pretty neat.

banging intro, holy shit

I hope you beat it!

Rogue-like?

BAM

This game is making me want to go back and play Castle of the Winds (my first rouge like)

I bet that if Ben use my name he Will beat rogue

I'm so here for this. You can do it Ben!

I'm sure this has like a lot of history or something but this is the most boring video game I have ever seen.

Yes!

Sweet, I love roguelikes

Wow, this is a blast from the past!

Call me Ishmael.... or Dremorak

SKURK

This was very good.

This is amazing

Video randomly stopping for me and losing my progression mark.

Here really late hoping to get randomly picked

I keep forgetting to throw my stupid name into the mix!

This is a great series!

It's been a year since this work of art was created. The first and best run, which was just a warm up so it didn't count.

One year later, still one of the best features this site ever had. Thanks Ben and Vinny.