DND (video game)

DND is a role-playing video game created in 1977 by Daniel Lawrence, a student at Purdue University, for the DEC PDP-10 mainframe computer. Its title comes from the abbreviation "D&D," referencing the tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons. The game was among the earliest role-playing video games, part of a wave of 1970s titles inspired by the 1974 release of Dungeons & Dragons.

Written in BASIC for the TOPS-10 time-sharing system, DND was initially freeware. It later spread to DEC computers, where a Pascal version was produced in 1983.

Lawrence reused some of its code for the 1982 game Telengard. Because the original BASIC source code was available, DND was later ported to other systems and languages. One such port, to MS-DOS in 1984 by R.O. Software, was sold as shareware for $25.