DND (video game)


DND is one of the earliest role-playing video games. The name DND is derived from the abbreviation "D&D" from the original tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. The video game was first released in 1977.

History

DND was written in BASIC by Daniel Lawrence for the PDP-10 and released around 1977. Later the game found its way to DEC and was there rewritten in 1983 to Pascal. The game was later reworked and re-released as Telengard by Daniel Lawrence. Due to the BASIC source code availability, the game was later ported and adapted to newer systems and programming languages.