Nethack Fans = Middle-aged aspy computer Geeks

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If you know about Nethack, you have to be a middle=aged aspy computer geek or the kid of one.

I still love Nethack better than any other computer game. I get to turn monsters into pets. That's what I like best about the game but it has way, way, way more playing obtions than any other computer game that I can think of.

Nethack?

I'm not into that newfangled stuff. Plain old Rogue is fine with me.

Hahaha. When I first played Nethack it took quite awhile to get used to displacing my kitten. It made me nervous. Yeah, I had to get out of the Rogue dark ages for the sake of my trendy kids who preferred Nethack.

DOS still rules.

I discovered Nethack during the early 90's myself, being a teenager at the time.

ADOM > All.

I like to play in discovery mode so that I can wish for a polymorh ring and a polymorph control ring. Then I turn into a xorn and go everywhere and eat all the armor and weapons I find. Then I get a magic whistle, become a silver dragon, lay an egg and have a pet silver dragon who will eat the shop keepers and priests.

That's what I love about Nethack. You can play the game your way.

Oooh. Unfortunately, I didn't find any DOS versions of rogue until the '90s, so I mostly played a version called "urogue" which ran on SCO Xenix/286. Because SCO's C compiler was based on Microsoft C, it didn't allow any array of data to be larger than 32K, and rogue stored all of the data about the game in an array. So, 9 times out of 10, when I did get the Amulet of Yendor, and would be dashing for the surface, the array would get too big, and the game would dump core (crash, completely and unrecoverably). It was pretty amazing that I managed to beat it even once.

Rogue for me, then Moria. I was never really able to make the switch to Nethack. I tried a couple of times, but it just never seemed as good as Moria - that may simply be a familiarity thing, though. My dad used to play those games to death, and actually beat Moria a few times. I never managed.

Moria?? Now I gotta do a search. I never heard of that one.

Found it! Now I must install and play!

Good luck! Buy a shovel or a pick if at all possible, you want to be able to get that gold and silver out of the walls. I think I found the character generation really satisfying on that game.

I bet you really like www.xkcd.com dont you?