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Celebrating Over 15 Years Of NetHack
Decaffeinated Jedi writes "Each week, GameSpy inducts classic games into its Hall Of Fame 'either because of their brilliant gameplay (which makes them playable to this day), or because they innovated in such a way to reshape gaming as we know it,' and a noted inductee is none other than the classic dungeon crawl NetHack. GameSpy's article looks back on the history of NetHack, tracing its origins from Rogue all the way up to the present day, including humorous 'Tales of NetHack Addiction' along the way." Update: 01/06 04:04 GMT by S : Though listed as a 'Recent Highlight' on GameSpy's main page, this article, whilst worthwhile, is an old one.
ADOM is great. Was hugely addicted to Nethack, but these days if I want Nethack, I play "Slashem", which is Nethack with a ton of stuff added. Adom really rules though. Great fun.
With all these articles, I'm thinking Gamespy bought Slashdot...
We all remember our first time...
Of course i do. If there would have been no nethack on our brand new SparcStation 1, i could have finished my diploma thesis months earlier. Unluckily they refused to include "and retrieved the amulett of yendor" in my academic credentials. In 1991 the amulett was much easier (gameplay) to retrieve. On the other side we had no root access to the system and if you died, the game was really over. Nowadays everyone plays it on his PC and can make backups. Tempora mutantor....
Regards, Martin