nethack

/nethak/ , n. [Unix] A dungeon game similar to rogue but more elaborate,
distributed in C source over Usenet and very popular at Unix sites and on
PC-class machines (nethack is probably the most widely distributed of the
freeware dungeon games). The earliest versions, written by Jay Fenlason and
later considerably enhanced by Andries Brouwer, were simply called hack. The
name changed when maintenance was taken over by a group of hackers
originally organized by Mike Stephenson. There is now an official site at
http://www.nethack.org/. See also moria , rogue , Angband.

