Growing Up on RPGs features
The Complete History of Role-Playing Games (RPGs): Part 11 – Living in a Multiplayer World
Part 11 explores the early days of MMORPGs with Ultima Online forging the way.
Growing Up on RPGs: Part 10 – Fighting Demons from the Top Down in Diablo
Released in 1997, Diablo was a game that completely revitalised and re-invented the entire Roguelike experience for millions.
Growing Up on RPGs: Part 9 – Final Fantasy: From Niche to Mainstream
Few titles can be classed as genre-defining. Final Fantasy VII is one of those titles. It led the line on making the RPG genre as popular as it is today.
Growing Up on RPGs – Part 8: Stuck in the MUD
In part 8, MUD & the advent of playing with real people and the beginning of what eventually becomes the Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.
Growing Up on RPGs: Part 7 – A Burst of RPGs
The 90s was an epic decade for game development—none more so than for the RPG genre. Some of the best RPGs ever made came in the first few years of the 1990s.
Growing Up on RPGs: Part 6 – Pointing and Clicking
Point and click adventure games are a mainstay of the RPG genre. In part 6, Crispin delves into their origins.
Growing Up on RPGs – Part 5
In part 5 of our Growing up on RPGs series, Crispin explores what was going on in the West while the NES games brought Japanese role-playing ideas to the world.
Growing Up on RPGs – Part 4
Enter Japan—or, more aptly, the Japanese RPG. Now synonymous with the role-playing game genre, Part 4 of the series explores the birth of the JRPG.
Growing Up on RPGs – Part 3
RPGs are visually stunning but what about in the 1980s? Part 3 in the series looks at the dawn of graphics in role-playing games.