Rogue, the first or one of the first computer games.

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Rogue popularized the dungeon crawling computer game dating back from 1980. A favorite on college Unix systems in the early to mid-1980s and created a class of derivatives known collectively as "roguelikes". Rogue inspired Hack, which in turn led to NetHack, Hack's modern-day descendant. Rogue is generally credited with being the first "graphical" adventure game, and it was probably at least one of the first if not the first. Rogue's biggest contribution, and one that still stands out to this day, is that the computer itself generated the adventure in Rogue. Every time you played, you got a new adventure. That's really what made it so popular for all those years in the early eighties. I have a copy of this game on a floppy disk, and still play it from time to time. The only set back is that I have to boot to Dos 6.2 to play the game. It doesn't play in Windows XP.