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Temple of the Roguelike / Re: Welcome to Temple of the Roguelike Forums! (a.k.a. Introduce Yourself Thread)
« on: December 13, 2010, 12:29:25 AM »
Hi, I decided I'd better make an account here... 
I've been playing rouglike games for quite a while now, since I found a disk with a copy of IVAN and ADOM... Naturally since I was a little kid, I went for IVAN which had graphics, and I was hooked.
Cue people thinking I'm crazy for playing this little game when I have a Playstation sitting in my lounge room...
Anyway, I played that on and off for ages, and then ADOM, (I never got that far through either, but oh well) and then suddenly one day, I thought, 'Hmmm, why don't I search for roguelike games on the internet?' I dunno why I didn't think of it before, but oh well.
So since then I've played many, many different roguelikes, some better than others.
Notably Crawl and more recently, Dwarf Fortress.
I have a newbie question, though... Why are they called roguelikes? I'm guessing there was some ancient game called Rogue that inspired it all?
Edited for typoes.
I've been playing rouglike games for quite a while now, since I found a disk with a copy of IVAN and ADOM... Naturally since I was a little kid, I went for IVAN which had graphics, and I was hooked.
Cue people thinking I'm crazy for playing this little game when I have a Playstation sitting in my lounge room...
Anyway, I played that on and off for ages, and then ADOM, (I never got that far through either, but oh well) and then suddenly one day, I thought, 'Hmmm, why don't I search for roguelike games on the internet?' I dunno why I didn't think of it before, but oh well.
So since then I've played many, many different roguelikes, some better than others.
Notably Crawl and more recently, Dwarf Fortress.
I have a newbie question, though... Why are they called roguelikes? I'm guessing there was some ancient game called Rogue that inspired it all?
Edited for typoes.