According to wikipedia, it was probably real. "It was initially coded in Applesoft BASIC, but Greenberg and Woodhead rewrote it in UCSD Pascal after BASIC prov

According to wikipedia, it was probably real. "It was initially coded in Applesoft BASIC, but Greenberg and Woodhead rewrote it in UCSD Pascal after BASIC proved too slow to be playable." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry:_Proving_Grounds_of_the_Mad_Overlord#Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry:_Proving_Grounds_of_t...