was this game really good enough to have a whole genre named after it
No but people did it anyway.Same with Metroid/Castlevania.
>>738118961Not really, Rogue was quite barebones. But its successors really fleshed out the genre into something uniqueNone of the games claiming to be "rogue-like" nowadays are anything like Rogue
Quick question: what are some ASCII Dungeon Crawlers that AREN'T Roguelikes?
>>738119147Filling blank movable space with dots is retarded. Rogue was better.
>>738119887Blank space represents undiscovered area, dots represent discovered area. There is a reason for it.