The concept of the underworld, as well as being a theme in ancient mythos, is also yet a metaphor for death. Morticians, doctors and even dentists could have been your entree into the passage of the underworld in times of yore. Portrayal of the underworld as DonJuan's (dungeons) is a popular recurrent theme in computer games (appropriate given the changes to brain activity entering the realm of deathlike silence thereupon).
In the past, all of the Ultima series by Lord British (aka Lord Illuminati) adhere to Roman numerals in the titles perhaps in homage to the ancients, and the moniker Ultima itself being emblematic of Ultima Thule perhaps. Recently the corporate (read: above earthly) media has been recalcitrant upon expanding these necroid realms in virtual format, however some games are being devil-oped that do so, the Kickstarter'ed game Underworld Ascendant for example.
Dungeon crawling is a representation of the sojourn into the underworld and as such is one of the ways in which the underworld carries on in the realm of the living, that is in the mind labyrinths (collective labyrinth or hub labyrinths for online players) of it's participants.
Into the Labyrinth (HTV Show)
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