What games did the future Russian LitRPG authors play?

Paul Bellow · Jul 18, 2018

Interesting read!

Actually, LitRPG is a brilliant idea: it’s books striking back at computer games. Don’t forget that games have evolved from books and from the art of storytelling in general, so they’ve always tried to outdo the printed word by telling an exciting story that was also engaging and interactive. And now the tables have turned again. Now it’s books trying to outmatch video games, to the point of imitating system messages and using gamers slang.

The 1970s-early 1980s generations were born and grew up together with the evolution of computer games. Compared to the US, in Russia this process wasn’t as backward as one might think. You could buy pre-PC and pre-Apple computers on one of the many street markets selling radio parts or in the Russian analogs of RadioShack shops. The country abounded with DIY computer whizzes who could resolder hardware or hack software and games for sale and even wrote walkthrough guides. I still have a 7-volume collection of 500 ZX Spectrum games in my archive, courtesy of which I could then tackle more complex structures such as the first Elite which still didn’t have any textures. Its 3D graphics at the time looked a bit like this:
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What games did the future Russian LitRPG authors play?

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