High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xyphus is a computer role-playing game first released in 1984. The game was designed by Skip Waller and Dave Albert with a Macintosh version by Bob Hardy, for Penguin Software. It was the first RPG ever released on the Macintosh system featuring upgraded graphics and mouse friendly user-interface; an improvement over the Apple II and Commodore 64 releases. Xyphus is pronounced, Eks-see-foose, and is the Greek word for sword.