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• Zork /zork/ n. The second of the great early experiments in computer fantasy gaming
  ee ADVENT. Originally written on MIT-DM during 1977-1979, later distributed with BSD Unix (as a patched, sourceless RT-11 FORTRAN binary...
• 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)....
• 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)....
• etrocomputing: /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n. Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-a
  esp. if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for {hack value}, of more `serious' designs....
• wumpus /wuhm'p*s/ n. The central monster (and, in many versions, the name) of a famous family of very early computer games called "Hunt The Wumpus'.
  The original was invented in 1970 (several years before ADVENT) by Gregory Yob....
• etrocomputing /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n. Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-a
  esp. if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more `serious' designs....
• 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")....
• ADVENT /ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game
  first designed by Will Crowther on the PDP-10 in the mid-1970s as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976....
• 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....