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Obligatory mention that D&D essentially spawned one of the greatest and oldest lineages of computer games: the roguelike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelik

• setr 9y ago
  Dungeon crawlers, [jwc]rpgs, text adventures, adventure games in general, and probably many more I'm not immediately thinking of all have some significant linkages to tabletop rpgs. More generally, most early video games, and thus the elder genres, were based on board games and sports (y'know, existing games). DnD -> roguelike isn't particularly notable in that sense; though the fact that the influence was from DnD v1, v1.5, and not the later editions (like [cw]rpgs) is somewhat interesting, as it depicts a significant shift in the aspect of rpgs people were interested in (shifting from exploration and combat to actually roleplaying)