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Bums me out I can never remember name of first crpg I had played. It was early 80s on commadore 64 when you only had a tape deck. The only thing I remember was

Bums me out I can never remember name of first crpg I had played. It was early 80s on commadore 64 when you only had a tape deck. The only thing I remember was going through dungeon and around level 3-7 of dungeon you could sit in a chair that would randomly teleport you to someplace in the dungeon, sometimes super deep. There were random chests around and no level restrictions. I remember having a low level character but using teleport chair to find really high level weapons then try to get back to the chair and hopefully randomly teleport back to lower level. Ah the good ole days lol

warp 9y ago
Have you tried asking on gaming forums?, e.g. this exact problem is a popular thread on Giant Bomb: https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/the-cant-remember-the-name-of-this-game-thread-v30-473880/?page=63 https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/the-c...
- Mendenhall 9y ago
  Wanted to thank both of you who responded, I will check it out and appreciate the links! I had not heard of either of these.
blue1 9y ago
try here: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/ https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/
nolok 9y ago
In addition to asking on dedicated websites and forums, you can also use sites like mobygames. By merely filtering to commodore 64 and RPG there is only 113 games left possible. With further filtering on info you didn't give (what type of view) and/or some brute forcing (aka checking them all) it should be easy to find what you're looking for: http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/c64/role-playing-rpg/ http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/c64/role-playing-rpg/
thoth 9y ago
Not sure it is the same game, but I played one my Apple //e in that era, named Telengard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telengard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telengard). I remember doing exactly as you describe: teleporting very deep and looting a chest for an extremely powerful weapon, and hoping to teleport back so I could rampage for a while. Good times. ;)
- Mendenhall 9y ago
  Omg I think this is it!!! thank you so much, I love this forum. So crazy you remembered same thing. Edit..Yup this is for sure the game, I even notice you could program into the game and that is what my cousin who gave it to me did in a school project. You all made my day with helpful responses. Heartfelt thanks to you all!! I am going to replay this game for sure because I remember it being very hard. The author sadly passed away in 2014 I was going to email and say thanks.
soylentcola 9y ago
On the C64, that was likely "Telengard" (based on "DND" - http://www.aquest.com/telen.htm http://www.aquest.com/telen.htm). You can play it online in a few places.
hithereagain 9y ago
There was a game like that available on MS/DOS (and apparently other systems) in that era called DND. https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/DND.html https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/DND.html My thanks to the grown ups in the local college's IT department who gave me the shareware version.

warp 9y ago

Have you tried asking on gaming forums?, e.g. this exact problem is a popular thread on Giant Bomb: https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/the-cant-remember-the-name-of-this-game-thread-v30-473880/?page=63 https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/the-c...

Mendenhall 9y ago
Wanted to thank both of you who responded, I will check it out and appreciate the links! I had not heard of either of these.

blue1 9y ago

try here: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/ https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/

nolok 9y ago

In addition to asking on dedicated websites and forums, you can also use sites like mobygames. By merely filtering to commodore 64 and RPG there is only 113 games left possible. With further filtering on info you didn't give (what type of view) and/or some brute forcing (aka checking them all) it should be easy to find what you're looking for: http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/c64/role-playing-rpg/ http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/c64/role-playing-rpg/

thoth 9y ago

Not sure it is the same game, but I played one my Apple //e in that era, named Telengard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telengard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telengard). I remember doing exactly as you describe: teleporting very deep and looting a chest for an extremely powerful weapon, and hoping to teleport back so I could rampage for a while. Good times. ;)

Mendenhall 9y ago
Omg I think this is it!!! thank you so much, I love this forum. So crazy you remembered same thing. Edit..Yup this is for sure the game, I even notice you could program into the game and that is what my cousin who gave it to me did in a school project. You all made my day with helpful responses. Heartfelt thanks to you all!! I am going to replay this game for sure because I remember it being very hard. The author sadly passed away in 2014 I was going to email and say thanks.

soylentcola 9y ago

On the C64, that was likely "Telengard" (based on "DND" - http://www.aquest.com/telen.htm http://www.aquest.com/telen.htm). You can play it online in a few places.

hithereagain 9y ago

There was a game like that available on MS/DOS (and apparently other systems) in that era called DND. https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/DND.html https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/DND.html My thanks to the grown ups in the local college's IT department who gave me the shareware version.