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• moria /mor'ee-*/ n. Like nethack and rogue, one of the large PD Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide range of machines and operating systems.
  The name is from Tolkien's Mines of Moria; compare elder days, elvish....
• Angband n. /ang'band/ Like nethack, moria, and rogue
  one of the large freely distributed Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide range of machines and operating systems....
• ogue: [UNIX] n. A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under BSD UNIX and subsequently ported to other UNIX systems.
  The original BSD `curses(3)' screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold to support `rogue(6)' and has since become one of UNIX's most important and heavily used application libraries....
• ogue 1. [Unix] n. A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently ported to other Unix systems.
  The original BSD curses(3) screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold primarily to support games, and the development of rogue(6) popularized its use...
• ethack /net'hak/ n. [Unix] A dungeon game similar to rogue but more elaborate
  distributed in C source over Usenet and very popular at Unix sites and on PC-class machines (nethack is probably the most widely distributed of the freeware dungeon games)....
• elvish: n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book of Kells".
  Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in "The Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his fictional `elvish' languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically {elegant}) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in general)....
• elder days: n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980)
  he era of the {PDP-10}, {TECO}, {{ITS}}, and the ARPANET....
• Great Worm, the: n. The 1988 Internet {worm} perpetrated by {RTM}.
  This is a play on Tolkien (compare {elvish}, {elder days})....
• ethack: /net'hak/ [UNIX] n. A dungeon game similar to {rogue} but more elaborate
  distributed in C source over {USENET} and very popular at UNIX sites and on PC-class machines (nethack is probably the most widely distributed of the freeware dungeon games)....