Beneath Apple Manor (1978)

If I’ve learned one thing today, it’s that I’m terrible at Beneath Apple Manor. Created by Don Worth in 1978, it is the earliest known commercially-released RPG. You’ll also note that 1978 puts it before the first version of Rogue, which means that Rogue is technically not the first roguelike.

The images above are of me playing the 1983 hi-res PC version. MobyGames has some screenshots of the 1978 Apple ][ version.

Beneath Apple Manor can be played at the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Beneath_Apple_Manor_1978

The CRPG Addict played BAM and exchanged a few words with Don Worth about it.

Don Worth has a website here: http://worth.bol.ucla.edu/ (I had trouble opening it in Chrome, but it was fine in Firefox.) There’s a PC version of BAM available for download from there.