Quick Look: Ranked as one of the "Ten Greatest PC Games Ever" by PC World in 2009, Rogue has now been adapted for the Roku after originally being developed for Unix systems in 1980 and released for the IBM PC in 1984.
Using only ASCII characters for graphics, with your character represented by the "@" symbol, this game leads you through a series of dungeons where you collect gold and fight off monsters. Your goals is to find the Amulet of Yendor and bring it out of the Dungeons of Doom.
-- Information is current as of December 22, 2012
Developer's Channel Description: Rogue is the classic computer game from the early 1980s that spawned a whole genre of "rogue-like" dungeon exploring games. Now play Rogue on your Roku, with the original gameplay and ASCII terminal graphics faithfully ported.
NOTE: Available on Roku 2 devices only.
CHANNEL STORE CATEGORY: Games
DEVELOPER: Greenwood Software
FEES: $0.99 one-time purchase
RELATED LINKS:
Rogue for Roku Website
