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Celebrating Over 15 Years Of NetHack

Posted by simoniker on from the hack-me-baby-one-more-time dept.

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.

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  1. Nice choice. by ivern76 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nethack...such good memories. I play ADOM now (www.adom.de), another roguelike game...better storyline, and awesome gameplay.

    1. Re:Nice choice. by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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...

  2. Old News by Dark_Nova · · Score: 5, Informative

    This article is over three years old. It was published in June 2000.

    As much as I like Nethack, this isn't exactly a new story.

    1. Re:Old News by Decaffeinated+Jedi · · Score: 4, Informative

      As the guy who submitted the story in the first place, I'll take the blame here. Gamespy is currently running a link to the NetHack story on their front page under the "Recent Highlights" category, and I didn't look into its background quite as thoroughly as I should have. I guess Gamespy is just recycling content onto its front page. Oops!

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      DecafJedi
      my weblog: apropos of something
  3. We all remember our first time... by dreamquick · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...playing nethack!

    Mine was on an old berkley system that was being used for testing, and being the naive young pup that I was I thought they wouldn't have anything amusing on there (apart from the MOTD with offensive items enabled).

    How wrong I was... many a lunchhour was lost due to nethack and those damned grues!

  4. You are looking at a dark webpage... by weeboo0104 · · Score: 5, Funny

    it was most likely slashdotted by a grue.

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    It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
  5. I got a special vid card for it by endx7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone knows you gotta have expensive video card for your games, which is why I got the ATI Radeon 9500 ASC. You know, the one specially designed to render games like nethack. It works great!!

  6. Just Remember... by Quarters · · Score: 4, Funny

    You only like NetHack for the music.