Game 584: Dungeon Arcade (1987) and Game 585: Search for the Jewel of Strength (1987)

In the end, the game is true to its name; it's more of an arcade game. Dungeon Arcade IsraelIndependently developed; published as type-in Atari 800 BASIC code in the December 1987 Antic magazine Date Started: 22 July 2026Date Ended: 22 July 2026Total Hours: 2Difficulty: Moderate-Hard (3.5/5) Final Rating: (to come later) Ranking at time of posting: (to come later) From an Israeli high school student comes this type-in game published as code in Antic magazine. I'd like to be able to call it the first Israeli RPG, but it's not really an RPG, so I guess we have to wait until the 2010s. It is vaguely reminiscent of the Quest games, but not so much that I'm sure developer Nadav Gur was inspired by them. The game takes place in a dungeon of 40 rooms, the player's only goal is to get out with as high a score as possible. There's no character creation, just a name. Each new character starts in a 38 x 22 room (including the borders) with 400 hit points and no items. He must contend with the…