Challenged to retrieve the powerful Amulet of Yendor from a fathomless, monster-plagued dungeon, you’ll discover that the dungeon is actually a randomly-generated configuration of brackets, asterisks and periods; the villainous pit beasts are an assortment of letters (“O” for Orcs, “D” for dragons and so on); and your heroic avatar is nothing more than a cheerfully blinking “@” sign.
But beneath these primitive graphics is a game of such richness and endless variation it usually takes years to master, if at all. —Wagner James Au —The Best Game Ever (Salon)
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