After reincarnating Jim the Wizard around 78 times sometime around the end of 2006, I got a really good game of Nethack going. Anticipating my first success, I recorded and notated a large set of screenshots.
I finished the game almost perfectly, but made one final fatal error. After a few minutes of frustration and intense [...]
During the 80 hours or so that I spent away, or ignoring, the woman-not-quite-yet-my-wife I learned some amazing things about Nethack.
Nethack is a game of luck and strategy. Yet, like the card game freecell, it is (almost) theoretically possible to beat every single game. Why? Because for every bad thing that can be done to [...]
Once upon a time, a long time ago, my dad bought a computer for home use. We had it for a long time. During this time I played a game called Rogue. I hated it because I couldn’t beat it.
About 20 years later, my friends started playing the next incarnation of the game called Nethack. [...]