Hack (Fenlason)

Hack is a 1982 Rogue -inspired game that Nethack is ultimately based on. Hack was primarily written by Jay Fenlason, a high-school student, after playing Rogue for a day or two. A remarkable achievement, Rogue was closed source and Fenlason recreated the game from memory. The game was built for the PDP-11/70 and as a recreation of Rogue, it shares many of it’s properties; an ASCII, top-down,…