Vocabulary Term: role-playing game

Noun (concept)
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RPG (role-playing game)
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a game genre where players create custom avatars and quest through fantastical environments collecting experience points and leveling up
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"As a kid in the 1980's, I played Ultima IV on my Atari 800 and became so obsessed I basically lost a year of my life to this engrossing RPG."