New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard Admirers of Roguelike games have a new distraction: Version 5.0 of NetHack dropped last weekend. NetHack and its ilk trace their origins back to Rogue , a game for Unix systems launched in 1980 that took the DNA of very early text games like Star Trek and Colossal Cave Adventure and mashed that up with tropes from Dungeons & Dragons. The result was a game in which players roamed around a multi level dungeon...
