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. A roguelike is a computer game that borrows some of the elements of another computer game, 1980s Rogue. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Hack was an improved version of the Rogue computer game. It introduced pets and shops as additional gameplay elements and expanded available lists of monsters, items, and spells. Rogue is a dungeon crawling computer game dating from 1980. ...

Typical hack session

 You hear some noises in the distance. ------ |....| ==External links== * [http://www.digital-eel.com/files/hack121.zip Hack v1.2.1] * [http://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/games/hack/hack.html Original source] <!-- although not originally written for a PC, PC versions have existed for as long as the PC existed; there are Unix, Amiga, Mac, PC and other versions; the category PC games is not inappropriate, at most too narrow --> [[Category:Unix games]] [[Category:Roguelikes]] [[Category:1982 computer and video games]] [[de:Hack (Computerspiel)]] [[es:Hack (videojuego)]] [[fr:Hack (jeu vidéo)]] [[it:Hack (videogioco)]]