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Next time, we’ll learn how one of the most popular of all the slick commercial games of the late 1990s grew out of this odd little corner of hackerdom… I wonde

Next time, we’ll learn how one of the most popular of all the slick commercial games of the late 1990s grew out of this odd little corner of hackerdom… I wonder what game he's talking about. Have to circle back sometime or subscribe to their RSS feed.

mtsr 3y ago
Diablo, I guess. It’s got quite clear rogue influences.
- talloaktrees 3y ago
  at the time when Diablo came out it was clear it was a polished, graphical version of Nethack
  - ido 3y ago
    It was more like a polished graphical off-shot of Angband. But I wouldn't call it a "version of it" anymore than I'd call Battlefield a version of Doom (or any platformer a version of Super Mario), they are simply games in the same (or similar) genre.
acheron 3y ago
(It’s Diablo.)