Originally Posted by Xian
Gateway to Apshai from Epyx was one of my first rogue like/pseudo RPGs…

YES! First game I ever got to play at length. We didn't have a console or computer at home, but I was "computer monitor" (not the actual display) at my elementary school and Gateway to Apshai was one of the few decent games we had. I'd finish all my schoolwork by 11am, and the teacher would send me off to play it for the rest of the day so I wouldn't be in his way. We didn't even have a joystick but I figured out how to fake the input with the keyboard and the C= key.