RPG Spotlight: DND

Although it was originally programmed in BASIC in 1976 by Daniel Lawrence while attending Purdue University, DND would go on to enjoy several years of additional ports and coding that ultimately resulted in its "official" 1984 release by R.O. Software of Plano, Texas. The title of the game is shared with a similar but completely unrelated project that emerged on the PLATO system in 1975, though the acronym for that game has always been displayed in all lowercase. The titles leave little speculation that they were directly influenced by Dungeons & Dragons (originally published in 1974 by TSR) and are some of the earliest CRPGs ever created by anyone, anywhere.