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I've been playing video games since my brother showed me how to load up some kind of mining game on our Commodore 64 back in about 1987.
I still have no idea what a 'roguelike' is.
The name is based on the game rogue from way back in the day, a roguelike is really just any game that has a gameplay loop where you completely reset without any carryover of items or skills, and a roguelite is the same but there will be a small amount of carryover of skills or items or something like that. For instance the binding of Issac is a popular roguelite, you lose all your items when you restart but you can unlock characters that persist even if you die.