Dr. Zowie writes "The 10th annual NethackTournament just started over at nethack.devnull.net, so put on your Hawaiian shirt, grab an expensive camera, and head for the dungeon. The tourney runs through the month of November each year, with volunteer game servers dotted around the world. Fewer than 1% of contestants actually finish the game by retrieving the Amulet of Yendor and ascending to demigodhood, but take heart: there many prizes for intermediate goals, and prizes for team effort.
For those too young to remember games older than Halo, Nethack is the apotheosis of the Roguelike genre of role-playing games, craptacularly rendered in ASCII. Game play is phenomenally complex, and the game is somewhat sadistic: there are no "checkpoints", so if you manage to kill yourself somewhere in the dungeon you must start over from the beginning. The dungeons are quasi-randomly generated, so every game is different." Link to Original Source
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