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We worked pretty hard and put together a running scroll of every Nintendo NES game, including gameplay, box art and data such as year released, genre and game developer. Here is every RPG published for the Nintendo NES. Enjoy!
From Wikipedia:
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game; abbreviated RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. … Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines. There are several forms of role-playing games.
After developing a series of successful arcade games in the early 1980s, Nintendo planned to create a home video game console. Rejecting more complex proposals, president Hiroshi Yamauchi called for a simple, cheap console that ran games stored on cartridges. The controller design was reused from Nintendo’s portable Game & Watch games. Several add-ons were released, such as a light gun for shooting games.
The NES was one of the bestselling consoles of its time, and helped revitalize the US game industry following the video game crash of 1983. It introduced a now-standard business model of licensing third-party developers to produce and distribute games. The NES featured a number of groundbreaking games, such as the platform game Super Mario Bros. and the action-adventure games The Legend of Zelda and Metroid, which became long-running franchises. It was succeeded in 1990 by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
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Thank you! One can see many ideas were still aiming at being a D&D adaptation for the eletronic medium.
Later, videogame-RPGs would become more of their own thing.
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