| " | Halliday had written in Anorak's Almanac that Dungeons of Daggorath was the game that made him decide he wanted to become a videogame designer. | " |
Description[]
Dungeons of Daggorath is one of the first realtime action first-person perspective role-playing video games. It was produced by DynaMicro for the Tandy (RadioShack) TRS-80 Colour Computer in 1982.
The game was written by Douglas J. Morgan and Keith S. Kiyohara, with sounds by Phil Landmeier, in 1980-81. It was released as a ROMpak cartridge for the Colour Computer, which limited the size of the code to eight kilobytes, which took several months of recoding to achieve. Despite this, the game features a multi-level maze and has what for the time were advanced sound effects that provide important clues to the location of the first gate.
Ready Player One History[]
In order to access the First Gate, an OASIS avatar must insert the game into a TRS-80 computer located in Middletown and complete the main story.