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• zorkmid /zork'mid/ n. The canonical unit of currency in hacker-written games.
  This originated in Zork but has spread to nethack and is referred to in several other games....
• 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....
• 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)....
• Zork: /zork/ n. The second of the great early experiments in computer fantasy gaming
  ee {ADVENT}. Originally written on MIT-DM during the late 1970s, later distributed with BSD UNIX (as a patched, sourceless RT-11 FORTRAN binary...
• Infocom n. A now-legendary games company, active from 1979 to 1989
  hat commercialized the MDL parser technology used for Zork to produce a line of text adventure games that remain favorites among hackers....
• grue n. [from archaic English verb for `shudder'
  as with fear] The grue was originated in the game Zork (Dave Lebling took the name from Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" fantasies) and used in several other Infocom games as a hint that you should perhaps look for a lamp, torch or some type of light source....
• frobnitz: /frob'nits/, plural `frobnitzem' /frob'nit-zm/ or `frobni' /frob'ni
  / [TMRC] n. An unspecified physical object, a widget....
• hello sailor! interj. Occasional West Coast equivalent of hello world
  eems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game Zork (which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor")....
• hello, sailor!: interj. Occasional West Coast equivalent of {hello, world}
  eems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game {Zork} (which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor")....