The Dungeon/pedit5 Speedrun (Old) World Record - The First RPG (1975)

Record set by Jonathan Jones (PlayingHistory) on May 16, 2023, 10:18PM Central. Apologies for the terrible mic audio, the mouse on the screen, and my occasional mumbling. UPDATE: The record was broken on June 17, 2023 by RestiveOrphan, who then broken their own record again on June 18, 2023 with a time of 7m14s: This is the first recorded speedrun of Reginald Rutherford’s 1975 The Dungeon for PLATO (also known by its PLATO lesson name: pedit5). This game was designed by Rutherford in the PLATO lab in the basement of the Loomis Laboratory at the University of Illinois in Urbana in 1975. It is either the first, or the first not-lost, Computer RPG. Rutherford designed the game around the first edition of Dungeons and Dragons, which came out the year before in 1974. Although this is the first intentional speedrun, it is actually the second published video showing The Dungeon from beginning to win screen. The first to do so was TailsFan109 on Sep