Dungeons and Dragons isn't the first CRPG released for the TRS-80 (that would be the Dunjonquest titles in 1979), but it does seem to be the first (and one of only three on my list) CRPGs released only for the TRS-80. I'm playing it because I'm stuck in Legend of Faerghail (the entrance to the derelict castle has completely disappeared, replaced by a tree), and because it's an excuse to learn a TRS-80 emulator. I don't doubt that there were occasional gems among the cassettemag and diskmag programs, but this isn't one of them. Magazines-on-cassette tape were a brief fad in the late 1970s and early 1980s, superseded by magazines on floppy disk and then, of course, the Internet, and every issue would contain some articles and a few brief sample programs, none of them really intended to compete with commercial software. I reviewed another cassette game, 1979's Dungeon, back in February. It was distributed via the TRS-80 cassette magazine CLOAD and probably written in just a couple of days. I don't mean to insult the game it wasn't even designed to be memorable.
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