Nethack was published in 1987 to on Usenet as a refinement of its previous incarnation, Rogue. Things are never quite as simple as they sound. As a representative of your deity, your adventurer must make its way to the bottom of the Dungeons of Doom and retrieve the amulet of Yendor, so that their god might ascend above all others. Diablo, iconic as it may be, is forever indebted to a game that came nearly a decade before and set the gold standard for hack ānā slash RPGs, Nethack, a game that is simultaneously more complicated than any other game out there, yet almost small enough to fit on a single 3.5ā diskette. For many, Diablo is the earliest incarnation of the dungeon crawler that readily comes to mind. ![]() ![]() Our memory has grown a bit hazy lately with the glut of cookie-cutter, loot-based RPGs that have carved a wide swathe across the gaming landscape.
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