Role-playing games were rare on the Atari 2600, because building characters, fighting monsters and collecting gear takes more memory than most cartridges had. This genre has two early attempts. Dragonstomper, by Stephen Landrum for the Starpath Supercharger, has you fight, shop and recruit helpers before facing a dragon. Crypts of Chaos (Fox Video Games, 1983) is a first-person dungeon crawl best played with a pencil and a hand-drawn map.
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Dragonstomper is a fantasy role-playing game for the Atari 2600, designed by Stephen Landrum and released by Starpath on cassette tape in late 1982 or early 1983. It ran on the Starpath Supercharger, an add-on that loaded games…
Play ▸Crypts of Chaos is a first-person dungeon crawl for the Atari 2600, designed by John W. S. Marvin and published by Fox Video Games, the game division of 20th Century Fox. You explore underground mazes, fight monsters, rob…
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