Play Wizardry I - Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Japan) Online

Ah, Wizardry I on Game Boy Color—where dungeon-crawling RPGs got their start, and where your patience gets tested. You’ll spend the first 10 minutes rolling up a party of misfits (good luck balancing fighters and mages), then immediately get lost in a maze full of pixel-perfect traps and monsters that don’t care if you’re new. The Game Boy version somehow makes the grind feel cozier, though. Maybe it’s the chunky pixels or the fact you can curse at your screen in public.

No quest markers, no auto-map—just you, graph paper, and the creeping dread of hearing a thief steal your last healing potion. If you’ve ever played a modern RPG and thought, "This is too nice to me," here’s your antidote. The Mad Overlord’s still waiting. Bring extra paper.