John Bell was the founder and president of the California based software house Crystalware and published a variety of games for North American home computers between 19, including several primitive action/adventure/RPG hybrids. The PC-8001 version cryptically credits “Brother Sun” and “Sister Moon”, but on Fujitsu FM-7 computers it is revealed that the game was actually written by the couple John and Patty Bell. This gives it a much stronger claim to being the first, while its status as a Japanese game is even more debatable than Roger’s work. Dragon Lair by Fugen Electronics was covered in the December 1982 issue of the monthly magazine Technopolis. That narrative is not entirely false, but this article is not about Henk Rogers’ The Black Onyx. If you’re interested in the early history of RPGs, you may have read the story about the Westerner who introduced the Japanese to the genre.
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