Wizardry

This is Wizardry, the legendary dungeon-crawling RPG originally created by Sir-Tech for the Apple II in 1981. The MSX 2 version brought this landmark title to Japanese home computers, offering the same first-person dungeon exploration and turn-based combat that defined the genre. It's a straight port of the original game, not a hack or mod. You create a party of adventurers from scratch, choosing classes like fighter, mage, thief, and priest, then diving into the dungeon of the mad overlord. Movement is tile-based, with encounters triggered randomly or by stepping on specific squares. Combat is turn-based and unforgiving - characters can die permanently if you aren't careful, and mapping on graph paper was once essential. Today, Wizardry on MSX 2 is a must-try for historians of the RPG genre. Its brutal difficulty and minimal interface might feel dated, but its design directly inspired classics like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. If you want to see where dungeon-crawling began, this port is an authentic piece of gaming history.