Talk:Dungeon (video game)

message: Why was this moved from Dungeon (1976)?  Was there a conflict? (Answer: No).  I guess it was moved to more accurately reflect the domain of the game?  In that case, it should have been moved to "Dungeon (mainframe computer game)" (note case).  But the "mainframe" isn't really needed either (unless someone writes another computer game called Dungeon, but we can deal with that if/when it ever happens).  I vote we move the article to "Dungeon (computer game)" and delete this article since a redirect with it's current name won't be useful to anyone.  Of course, we can fix any wikilinks to it first. — Frecklefoot | Talk 14:21, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
:I think I'm causing some extra headaches here as I learn the ropes.  I had used the (1976) as a differentiator from other Dungeon entries, then realized that was a poor choice, especially so since the year is more likely 1975 than 1976.  
:I then revised and used mainframe computer game as the revised differentiator since there are so many console, PC etc. games with the word dungeon, and most modern readers who read "computer game" would make the wrong assumption.
:I used caps in the parentheses because I didn't realize that was the wrong convention.  (Newbies are trainable, really!)
:I don't have strong objections to any of the suggestions, though I think that in general keeping some flags for mainframe games to avoid confusion is a good thing.
:Coll7 17:23, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: I've added a short paragraph about another game with the same name, a translation into Fortran of what later became Zork. See Zork#Fortran_version_of_Dungeon. (I never got to use a PDP-10, but I spent way too many hours with Dungeon-the-text-game.) I've also removed some incorrect info about DECUS, which was much more than a "software sharing system" and was subsidised but not "operated by" DECUS. Cheers, Chris Chittleborough 23:11, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another DECUS game named "Dungeon" 

message: So what is the deal here.  A quick search of internet sources reveals three industry bios saying the game was created in 1975 and two industry bios and two interviews with Daglow that all say the game was written in 1976, the latter two being cases of Daglow himself giving the year as 1976.  Why is one set of sources considered more credible than the other? Seems to me both dates should be given as possible creation dates.  Furthermore, it seems pretty clear that pedit5 was created in 1974 and dnd in 1974/75, so the claim of first rpg rings pretty hollow, though it was certainly the first rpg on conventional mainframe computers. Indrian 18:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 1975 or 1976?

message: The article says this is a multiplayer game, but I think the expression should have been "multi-character".  See http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=11228.  I'm pretty sure the game has only one player.  So far in my research it looks like the earliest multiplayer game, at least in the adventure/rpg realm, is Oubliette (1977).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.201.24.136 (talk) 22:31, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  multi-player v multi-character