

"The ‘mass effect’ concept was ingeniously employed which allowed the characters to carry 4 weapons, all of them retractable and compact, and all having the same weapon clip while firing a bullet the size of a grain of sand." That little shiny something came to us in late 2007, from the cradle of Bioware and it goes by the name of Mass Effect.

But every now and then, there’s a little bit of something from the hoard that catches our fancy like spotting something shiny in the garbage while walking down the aisle that you tread day in and day out. Starting from Adventure, Ultima and Wizardry the RPG genre sprouted upwards and upwards just as technology was punching its mark in the daily lives of people.Īlmost half a hundred years after the world was introduced to a new style of gaming, we are cannoned by a number of developers who have proved their ardour and ability in the field of RPGs. This may not sound much, but Adventure was the advent of a new genre of gaming that has found its place and established itself fiercely in modern gaming industry. Although not an RPG in essence, the game had a group of warriors battling a dragon. Adventure, a game developed by William Crowther in 1972, is often accredited for being the first computer RPG of the age.

Role-playing-games have come a long way over the past century, evolving from simple tabletop games to people dressing up and enacting their favourite fantasy characters, This trend finally stepped into the world of technology and gaming fully in the 1980s.
