This gallery of 16,000 RPG screens is a monument to the genre
For the last several years, gaming enthusiast Felipe Pepe has been recruiting journalists, modders, and fans for a free, crowd-sourced ebook about the history of Computer Role-Playing Games (CRPGs). That’s a complete history, not just another rundown of the best-known hits of the genre, which means scaling back to the ’70s and ’80s, when taking screenshots of games couldn’t be done with the press of a button. Furthermore, most of the existing online images of these games (and even more modern ones), were designed for marketing purposes and don’t offer a sense of what the games looked like in action.