Cave Noire - The Forgotten Rougelike on gameboy

The history of roguelike games is a storied one. Just checking the wikipedia page elicits a surprisingly diverse catalog of games that are said to have been inspired by the text-based ASCII dungeon crawler, ‘Rogue’. Created in 1980 by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman, Rogue was revolutionary for a few reasons: Procedurally generated dungeons (meaning the game is never the same twice), Treasure collection, and Permadeath (which means if you die, you start over) to name a few. Following the creation of Rogue, a new genre of games began to emerge in the 80′s which became known as ‘Rougelikes’ - These games are known as such because they continue to adpot the core mechanics of Rogue, such as Permadeath, Turn-Based Movement, Procedural Generation, Loot, and RPG elements. According to the history of roguelikes, the genres’ entry into console gaming began in 1990 with the release of Sega’s Fatal Labyrinth. While Fatal Labyrinth takes this title for home consoles, the first mobile console entry…