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Screenshot of an article about Eamon at The CRPG Addict blog. It reads in part:
Friday, March 22, 2013
Game 93: Eamon (1980)
The relative quality of freeware and commercial CRPGs often serves as a counter-argument to capitalism. We might naturally expect that games made for profit would out-perform games made just for the fun of it--and in certain areas, like graphics and sound, they unquestionably do. But in terms of overall gameplay, we need look only further than the entire roguelike genre--including the high-ranked NetHack and Omega--to see that commercial games don't always make for better games.
This axiom rings most true during Barton's Dark and Bronze Ages, when the earliest commercial RPGs significantly under-performed what university students created for their friends on mainframes in between classes. Few of the commercial RPGs from the late 1970s and early 1980s exceed the PLATO games like dnd, Oubliette, and Avatar (I realize I haven't reviewed all of these; you'll have to wait for the book for that). I would go so far as to say that only Dunjonquest: Temple of Apshai comes close, and not until...
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crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2013/03/game-93-eamon-1980.html
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22 March 2013. Screenshot captured 13 May 2019.
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Chester Bolingbroke
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