Question: Red Book is an unauthorized edition of the role playing game that was first published in what year?
Context: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying (MHRP), is the fourth role playing game set in the Marvel Universe, published Margaret Weis Productions under license from Marvel Comics.  It was a fast playing game using the Cortex Plus system, with the first volume published in early 2012.  In early 2013 Margaret Weis Productions announced they would not be renewing their license. The Aethra Chronicles - Volume One: Celystra's Bane or The Aethra Chronicles (also known as Aethra for short) is a classic 1994 MS-DOS shareware computer role playing game.  The game was based on the Rolemaster game system, a Pencil & Paper role playing game.  It was developed mostly as a one-man project by Michael Lawrence with some help from others for the graphics and sound/music. MerpCon is an acronym for "Middle-Earth Role Playing Convention", a role playing game convention dedicated solely to role-playing gaming in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.  The event is held annually on the last weekend of July and runs for 3 days from Friday, through to the end of Sunday (and sometimes a little into the following Monday morning).  To date MerpCon has been held each year in Spokane, WA, USA.  Beginning in 2009 MerpCon began to transition to being called Tolkienmoot as this convention's venue began to expand to include more Tolkien-related activities, events, and guests beyond just role playing in Middle-earth. The Cortex System is a generic RPG system based on the "Sovereign Stone System ", and was developed by Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd for the Serenity Role Playing Game.  It was subsequently used for their licensed "Battlestar Galactica" and Supernatural RPGs, and brought out as a stand-alone system in the "Cortex System Role Playing Game" book (also called the "Cortex Classic System Role Playing Game").  Serenity, using the Cortex System, was the 2005 Origins Award Gamer's Choice Role Playing Game of the Year. The Little Red Book is a non-conference approved study guide to The Big Book which was also called The Big Red Book because of its red and yellow cover when it was first published; however the cover of The Big Book became blue with the second edition in 1955. The Red Book is a trade mark of Gamestuff Inc and is an unauthorized edition of Chivalry & Sorcery (C&S) role playing game.  Its name is from the red cover of the 1st official edition.  All successive Red Book editions took the same design.  Editions of Red Book after the first are named in addition to numbered: Phoenix (2nd), Chimera (3rd), Gorgon (4th), Manticore (5th), Hydra (6th) and Minotaur (7th).  Red Book preserves the cover and typeface of the 1st edition of C&S.  C&S was originally created in 1977 by two Canadian game designers, Edward E. Simbalist and Wilf K. Backhaus, and first published by Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU), an American editor.  The 2nd edition was also published by FGU (1983), the 3rd by Highlander Designs (1996) and the 4th by Britannia Game Designs (2000), an English editor. İstanbul Efsaneleri: Lale Savaşçıları ("Legends of Istanbul: Tulip Warriors") is the first Turkish fantasy role playing game.  Designed in a funny and comical style, the game is set in an alternate Istanbul.  The language of the game is Turkish.  It was first published for Amiga and PC platforms in years 1994 and 1997, respectively, and a revival gold edition was published later in 2005 to make it work under newer operating systems using DOS emulators. GURPS Bio-Tech is a GURPS, the Generic Universal Role Playing Game, sourcebook that covers the implementation of biotechnology in the game.  The first edition of the book was written for GURPS Third Edition, while the second edition of GURPS Bio-Tech was written for GURPS Fourth Edition.  Both editions of the game are primarily focused on providing supplemental rules, campaign material, and examples of the uses of biotechnology for the players and game-master alike.  The second edition contains two outlines for campaign settings ("Alexander Athanatos" and "Draconis") but is primarily focused on providing rules and examples of devices that Game Masters could adapt for use in their own campaigns. Chivalry & Sorcery is a fantasy role-playing game that was first published in 1977 by Fantasy Games Unlimited.  Originally created by Edward E. Simbalist and Wilf K. Backhaus in 1977, "Chivalry & Sorcery" ("C&S") was an early competitor to "Dungeons & Dragons" ("D&D").  Historically, the two designers of the game were dissatisfied with the lack of realism in "D&D" and created a gaming system derived from it, which they named "Chevalier".  They intended to present it to Gary Gygax at Gen Con in 1977, but changed their minds once at the Con, where they met Scott Bizar who wrote out a letter of intent.  After some final changes to get rid of the last remnants of "D&D" (e.g. the game contained a table of "Saving-throws" similar to "D&D"), Simbalist and Backhaus published the first edition of their game - now renamed "Chivalry & Sorcery" - shortly after the release of the first edition of "Advanced D&D". An online text-based role playing game is a role-playing game played online using a solely text-based interface.  Online text-based role playing games date to 1978, with the creation of "MUD1", which began the MUD heritage that culminates in today's MMORPGs.  Some online-text based role playing games are video games, but some are organized and played entirely by humans through text-based communication.  Over the years, games have used TELNET, internet forums, IRC, email and social networking websites as their media.
Answer: 1977