Thursday, July 15, 2004
Games: Rogue for Dreamcast
What's the oldschool RPG that's a sex machine to all the chicks? Why it's Rogue, the ancient originator of computer RPGs, representational dungeon graphics, randomly-generated gameplay and the genre of Roguelike games, the most famous member of which being the Honored Representative from the Great State of Roguelike, awesome, all-powerful Nethack.
Some wonderful person has actually hacked together, from several different sources, a version of Rogue for the Sega Dreamcast video game console. The Dreamcast suffered from an early demise, some say because of extreme software piracy, but really, more likely due to Ess-Oh-Enn-Why, but the system has gained a second life due to the fact that it’s relatively easy to create homebrew games for it; the basic system is perfectly capable of reading, and even booting games off of, CD-Rs.
And now that there’s a version of Rogue, magnificent Rogue, wonderful Rogue, great and terrible Rogue, I finally have a good excuse to drag my machine out of mothballs. What an incredibly cool thing!
What's the oldschool RPG that's a sex machine to all the chicks? Why it's Rogue, the ancient originator of computer RPGs, representational dungeon graphics, randomly-generated gameplay and the genre of Roguelike games, the most famous member of which being the Honored Representative from the Great State of Roguelike, awesome, all-powerful Nethack.
Some wonderful person has actually hacked together, from several different sources, a version of Rogue for the Sega Dreamcast video game console. The Dreamcast suffered from an early demise, some say because of extreme software piracy, but really, more likely due to Ess-Oh-Enn-Why, but the system has gained a second life due to the fact that it’s relatively easy to create homebrew games for it; the basic system is perfectly capable of reading, and even booting games off of, CD-Rs.
And now that there’s a version of Rogue, magnificent Rogue, wonderful Rogue, great and terrible Rogue, I finally have a good excuse to drag my machine out of mothballs. What an incredibly cool thing!
