Hack (video game)

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Not to be confused with the .hack video game and anime franchise.

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Hack is a roguelike computer game originally written in 1982 by Jay Fenlason with the assistance of Kenny Woodland, Mike Thome, and Jon Payne. A greatly extended version was posted on Usenet in 1984 by Andries Brouwer. Hack is an improved version of Rogue, introducing pets and shops as gameplay elements and expanding available monsters, items, and spells. It later became the basis for NetHack.

Some later versions of Hack, on the Amiga for example, use graphical tiles in place of the letters and symbols originally used to delineate user interface elements.

[edit] Typical Hack session

You hear some noises in the distance.
 
  
 
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                       |..$+#                                     |...<|
                       +...|#                                     |....|
                       |...|###############                       ------
                       |...|#             #-----+-----
                       |..%|##            #|.........|
                  #    -----#             #|.[......%L
       -+----  ##############             #|.........|
       |....|   #                         #+@........|
       |....+####                        ##-----------
       |....|
       |....+
       ------
 
 
 
 
Level 1    Hp  15(15)   Ac 9    Str 16      Exp  1

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