RPG stands for role-playing game: you guide a hero on a long quest, gather items and survive enemies. On the 2600 these games had to work with very little memory. The site lists two here. Sword of Saros (1983), for the Starpath Supercharger, sends you through a wizard’s seven-level dungeon to rebuild a magic sword. The Lord of the Rings: Journey to Rivendell is an unreleased 1983 Parker Brothers prototype in which Frodo flees the Black Riders.
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Sword of Saros is a 1983 dungeon adventure for the Starpath Supercharger, the add-on that let the Atari 2600 load bigger games from audio cassettes. Programmed by Jon Leupp and Stephen Landrum, it sends you through an evil…
Play ▸The Lord of the Rings: Journey to Rivendell is an unreleased Atari 2600 adventure game from Parker Brothers, programmed by Mark Lesser in 1983. Parker Brothers showed it in a 1983 catalog, but the cartridge never reached the…
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