Editing Role-playing video game (section)

===Mainframe computers===
The role-playing video game genre began in the mid-1970s, as an offshoot of early university [[Mainframe computer|mainframe]] text-based RPGs on [[PDP-10]] and [[Unix]]-based computers, such as ''[[Dungeon (video game)|Dungeon]]'', [[pedit5]] and [[dnd (video game)|dnd]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Martell|first=Carey|title=Interview with the creators of dnd (PLATO)|url=http://www.rpgfanatic.net/advanced_game_wiki_database.html?p=news&nrid=5049&game=dnd|website=www.rpgfanatic.net|access-date=May 5, 2012}}</ref> In [[1980 in video gaming|1980]], a very popular [[dungeon crawl]]er, ''[[Rogue (video game)|Rogue]]'', was released. Featuring [[ASCII]] graphics where the setting, monsters and items were represented by letters and a deep system of gameplay, it inspired a whole genre of similar clones on mainframe and home computers called "[[roguelike]]s".