Nethack

They've also taken a page from the old skool Rogue/Nethack games and given you a dog to pal around with.

The Month and a Half of Gaming Dangerously 2008

Rogue/Nethack/Angband are the ASCII-forerunners of Diablo.

Four games that captured success from obscure forebears 2010

Finally, we took a long look at Spelunky, a new procedurally generated freeware PC game that blends the best bits of Rogue/Nethack with 8-bit platforming, and is setting the bar very high for 2009's indie ilk.

Boing Boing 2008

So these days, my RPG activities are limited to the occasional game of Nethack.

My Earliest Encounter with Economic Absurdity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The play is nothing new — the game is part Gauntlet, part Dungeons & Dragons and part Nethack, but the beauty of the series is in the execution and outright fun factor.

The Top 10 Game Sequels of 2010 2009

Replaced the stolen laptop, and downloaded the only two computer games I play: Nethack and Igowin.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

I also told him that I thought Nethack was the Platonic ideal of the video game and that all subsequent games are just shadowy imitations, but I don't think he bought that one...

Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

Replaced the stolen laptop, and downloaded the only two computer games I play: Nethack and Igowin.

Got a New Laptop 2009

If you ever have played the various Rogue-likes (Nethack, Angband + variants, ADoM …), maybe something inspired by those?

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Give me sketch ideas! 2006

Nethack is the only real game, especially if you use tiles instead of ASCII characters.

Truth Invaders Web Game Rogers 2008