Telengard
Published: February 1, 2009 - Last update: January 31, 2012 - 483 downloads
- Alt name
- Castle Telengard
- Year
- 1985
- Genre
- Role-Playing (RPG)
- Theme
- Medieval / Fantasy, Real-Time
- Publisher
- The Avalon Hill Game Company
- Developer
- The Avalon Hill Game Company
- Perspective
- Top-Down
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Description of Telengard
To shortly resume Telengard (also known as Castle Telengard), it's about role-playing (rpg) and medieval / fantasy, real-time. It was done by The Avalon Hill Game Company in 1985. Feel free to download and try it!
An early dungeon-crawl RPG, Avalon Hill's Telengard is among the first Roguelike games ever made for the PC. Since the original version (for the TRS-80 computer) came out way back in 1982, Telengard should be considered one of the grandaddies of Roguelike games. Although the gameplay is extremely simple, Telengard is by no means easy. You'll die a lot before gaining a level, and new, better weapons are hard to come by. There is only one character class to play as-- a warrior/wizard combination, although you can re-roll the starting stats and cast spells during the game. Telengard features some neat ideas that became commonplace in Roguelikes, such as scrolls, and teleporters you can use to warp around the dungeon. All in all, a respectable dungeon hack that didn't set any standards, but probably inspired a lot of authors to program Roguelikes of their own. Note: Apparently this Avalon Hill version is one of the few commercial versions of DND, also by Daniel Lawrence, which may well be the very first computer RPG ever created. Read more info and download other DND versions at the Unofficial DND Site below! [thanks to ZDim for the link]
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mymoon added this comment :
So old that most probably my grandmother played this one when she was in primary school at the age of 7. It's been around for such a long time that i can not remember a time when this did not exist. Not my cup of tea though. I liked sword of fargaol better on the C64.