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Paperback Dungeon Hacks: How NetHack, Angband, and Other Roguelikes Changed the Course of Video Games Book

ISBN: 069250186X

ISBN13: 9780692501863

Dungeon Hacks: How NetHack, Angband, and Other Roguelikes Changed the Course of Video Games

In 1980, computers were instruments of science and mathematics, military secrets and academia. Stern administrators lorded over sterile university laboratories and stressed one point to the wide-eyed students privileged enough to set foot within them: Computers were not toys. Defying authority, hackers seized control of monolithic mainframes to create a new breed of computer game: the roguelike, cryptic and tough-as-nails adventures drawn from text-based...

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