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Text adventures established modern gaming class roles
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The legendary 'holy trinity' of multiplayer gaming roles—tanks, healers, and damage dealers—did not originate in massive graphical RPGs but instead in primitive 1980s multi-user text dungeons. Because early networking was terribly slow, game designers forced players to specialize entirely into focused hyper-specific textual roles to aggressively survive highly difficult digital encounters.
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