Console role-playing game facts for kids

A console role-playing game is a video game genre that resembles traditional role-playing games. Many console role-playing games use common features like turn-based battles, random battles, stats, and leveling up.

Images for kids

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  A party of adventurers gathered together in Tales of Trolls & Treasures

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  Overworld map from the tactical RPG The Battle for Wesnoth.

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  Example of a dungeon map drawn by hand on graph paper. This practice was common among players of early role-playing games, such as early titles in the Wizardry and Might and Magic series. Later on, games of this type started featuring automaps.

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  Character information and inventory screen in a typical computer role-playing game. Pictured here is the roguelike-like S.C.O.U.R.G.E.: Heroes of Lesser Renown. Note the paper doll in the top left portion of the image.

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  An example of character creation in an RPG. In this particular game, players can assign points into attributes, select a deity, and choose a portrait and profession for their character.

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  Ranged magical combat in the party-based graphical roguelike-like Dungeon Monkey Eternal. The fireball being cast by the wizard in the image is an area of effect (AoE) attack, and damages multiple characters at once.

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  The graphical roguelike-like NEO Scavenger has text on the right indicating what events have transpired, and gives the players options (bottom) based on their character's abilities. At left is the character's current stats.

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  Starting in the mid-1990s with the advent of 3D graphics accelerators, real-time first- and third-person polygonal graphics also became common in CRPGs. Pictured here is Sintel The Game.

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  Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII is often seen as the "quintessential bishounen" in Japanese RPGs.

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  Screenshot of Damnation of Gods, a Dungeon Master clone. All four members of the players' party move around the game world as a single unit, or "blob", in first-person perspective.

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  Multiple people chat and play online in the MMORPG Daimonin.

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  NetHack and other roguelikes often use ASCII text characters to represent objects in the game world. The position of the main character in this image is indicated by the symbol @.

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  Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 3 booth at the Games Convention 2008

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  Hironobu Sakaguchi at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, California in 2007

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In Spanish: Videojuego de rol para niños