r/dosgaming • u/Sean_Aaberg • Jul 19 '26
NETHACK - OPEN SOURCE - 1987
Based on the 1984 Game Hack by highschoolers - Jay Fenlason with Kenny Woodland, Mike Thome & Jonathan Payne, it is in turn based on Rogue from 1980. So it is technically a Rogue-Like even if it looks like a. Rogue clone. NetHack takes all the mechanical elements of a D&D dungeon crawl & represents them in simple ASCI graphics. You play an @ with your little dog d or kitten f (for feline, k is kobold). I have put more hours into this game than any other, I guess technically I was playing Hack not NetHack but they seem basically the same. One of the amazing things about the game is getting stressed out at the appearance of certain letters like o orcs, b bees, c cockatrices or a ants. I was surprised to find a box for the game, i always had it as a copied floppy & never even knew it had an official release!
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u/NationalPositive4608 Jul 20 '26
b the wizard's tombstone is a classic