PC Hack

a.k.a. Hack

published by author in 1985, running on MS-DOS

type: role-play
genre: Fantasy, Roguelike
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player

languages: eng

Official description

Excerpt from the readme-file of PC Hack version 3.5 (note: Screenshots are from version 1.03)
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HACK is a display oriented dungeons and dragons type game. It is similar in style to ROGUE played on UNIX(tm) systems but HACK is much richer in character. HACK has many more monsters and highly varied magic. The motivation in HACK is to descend through the dungeon to find the Amulet of Yendor, then return to the surface. As you travel you will meet various creatures (most of them nasty), find objects (some having magical properties), and experience many hazards in the dungeon itself.

PC HACK is the MSDOS version of UNIX HACK which was originally written by Jay Fenlason (Jay the Hacker), then heavily modified by people at the Stichting Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam. This MSDOS version is called PC HACK 3.5. When you are playing PC HACK, the `v' command will display the version number.

# 2010-12-02 22:38:12 - official description

Technical specs

display: text

Editor notes (2)

Colors were added with version 4.0 in 1987.

teran01 # 2011-11-20 10:56:45

An adventure game where the levels and characters are all made entirely of ASCII characters. Essentially, it is an improved version of the Unix game Rogue.

(Jacquismo) - # 2006