Dunnet

This game comes with the Emacs application, ostensibly referred to as a text editor, since 1992 and could be added to older versions of Emacs since 1983 (pre-Linux) when the game was first released. The Emacs editor, and therefore this text-adventure game, were ported to Linux by Richard Stallman (presumably prompted by his hatred of the vi editor ported illegally from BSD, but later since legalised, in 1992) and released in May of 1996.

It can be played the the geekiest way by typing emacs -batch -l dunnet at the command-line. Also Newbies might use the key sequence M-x dunnet to start the game once Emacs is running.

Starting the game will send the user into a typical text-adventure gaming world. But,
Due to the nature of the game running within Emacs (a hacker's tool), it can be completely hacked live during play. This is not an intended feature, since the game is completely encrypted. But the encryption is not that difficult to crack (for a competent hacker.)

zerothis # 2014-02-17 23:17:28

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Dunnet (Unix)