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>>10846730
The computer adventure game genre was established without cardinal elements found in the tabletop RPGs inspiring them such as a stat building and point economies. Computer RPGs which better recreated the experience of playing tabletop RPGs came later and are a subgenre of the computer adventure game genre as a result of this issue of occurrence.

Here's why this is confusing you:
The early versions of DnD also referred to themselves as a "Fantasy Adventure Game" - that inspired early computer "Adventure Games" which established the genre for computers in the mid '70s - those computer adventure games alongside the original tabletop RPGs inspired computer RPGs, which isn't confusing considering their modules are still referred to as "Adventures". This entire RPG/Adventure mixup was entirely due to a naming shuffle during the development of DnD alongside the establishment of the computer adventure game genre

>>10846730
The computer adventure game genre was established without cardinal elements found in the tabletop RPGs inspiring them such as stat building and point economies. Computer RPGs which better recreate the experience of playing tabletop RPGs came later thus RPGs are a subgenre of the computer adventure game genre due to this issue of occurrence.

Here's why this is confusing you:
The early versions of DnD referred to themselves as a "Fantasy Adventure Game" - that inspired early computer "Adventure Games" which established the genre for computers in the mid '70s - those computer adventure games inspired computer RPGs, which is what DnD started calling itself around the early 80s while still referring to their modules as "Adventures". This entire RPG/Adventure mixup was entirely due to a naming shuffle during the development of DnD alongside the establishment of the computer adventure game genre

>>10846730
The computer adventure game genre was established without cardinal elements found in the tabletop RPGs inspiring them such as a stat building and point economies. Computer RPGs which better recreated the experience of playing tabletop RPGs came later and are a subgenre of the computer adventure game genre as a result of this issue of occurrence.

Here's why this is confusing you:
The early versions of DnD referred to themselves as a "Fantasy Adventure Game" - that inspired early computer "Adventure Games" which established the genre for computers in the mid '70s - those computer adventure games inspired computer RPGs, which is what DnD started calling itself around the early 80s while still referring to their modules as "Adventures". This entire RPG/Adventure mixup was entirely due to a naming shuffle during the development of DnD alongside the establishment of the computer adventure game genre.