{"id":854,"date":"2012-03-12T13:25:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T18:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2012-03-12T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T19:07:20","slug":"10-computer-rpgs-that-defined-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/854\/10-computer-rpgs-that-defined-the-1980s","title":{"rendered":"10 Computer RPGs That Defined the 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/slideshow\/story\/295139\/10-classic-computer-rpgs\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcmag\/1980s_rpgs_small.jpg\" alt=\"10 Computer RPGs That Defined the 1980s\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, PCMag.com published a slideshow I put together covering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/slideshow\/story\/295139\/10-classic-computer-rpgs\" target=\"_blank\">10 classic computer RPGs of the 1980s<\/a>.  Here is a passage from the introduction that <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/03\/11\/2144221\/computer-games-that-defined-rpgs-in-the-1980s\" target=\"_blank\">excited Slashdot recently<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Throughout our story, we&#8217;ll cover 10 classic computer games that both defined and extended the definition of the RPG in the 1980s. You&#8217;ll see names like Ultima, The Bard&#8217;s Tale, and Might and Magic, which may seem familiar, but you&#8217;ll also find a few surprising titles that you may never have heard of.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny &#8212; I was going to try to sneak this one past the Internet populace with a modest, unassuming title instead of something like &#8220;THE TEN MOST IMPORTANT RPGS OF THE 1980S.&#8221;  But nooo, someone found it anyway, dug out the interesting kernel of truth buried in the introduction, and put it on Slashdot for all to see.<\/p>\n<p>I bet if I had titled it something like &#8220;10 Games,&#8221; we would be hearing about it on the CBS Evening News tonight.<\/p>\n<p>All that being said, I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/slideshow\/story\/295139\/10-classic-computer-rpgs\" target=\"_blank\">Read &#8220;10 Classic Computer RPGs&#8221; at PCMag.com<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, PCMag.com published a slideshow I put together covering 10 classic computer RPGs of the 1980s. Here is a passage from the introduction that excited Slashdot recently: Throughout our story, we&#8217;ll cover 10 classic computer games that both defined and extended the definition of the RPG in the 1980s. You&#8217;ll see names like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,13,24,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retrogaming","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}