A fun, if crude, dungeon crawler for the Vic-20. This, the Apshai Trilogy, and Ultima were my earliest graphical rogue-likes. The Commodore version is very dumbed-down compared to Rogue and its descendants, but this game plays faster and retains enough of the fun adventure and zany randomness one expects in the genre.
EDIT: https://www.mobygames.com/game/14475/sword-of-fargoal/
Author Jeff McCord remade the game:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2231080/Sword_of_Fargoal/
McCord's Reddit AMA:
A fun, if crude, dungeon crawler for the Vic-20. This, the *Apshai Trilogy*, and *Ultima* were my earliest graphical rogue-likes. The Commodore version is very dumbed-down compared to Rogue and its descendants, but this game plays faster and retains enough of the fun adventure and zany randomness one expects in the genre.
EDIT: https://www.mobygames.com/game/14475/sword-of-fargoal/
Author Jeff McCord remade the game:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2231080/Sword_of_Fargoal/
McCord's Reddit AMA:
https://farside.link/libreddit/r/IAmA/comments/116mna/hi_my_name_is_jeff_mccord_and_im_the_creator_of/
(post is archived)