How did you find Angband?

**Roch** · January 6, 2011, 02:00

Nostalgic for old games like zork and wizardry, in about '04 I did some looking around online and came across angband. I was immediately blown away by the depth and the gameplay dynamic that revealed my tendencies for complacency or ambition. It took me a few years to give variants a try, but as a rule I found them to be very rich and very fun. This site's discussion and competitions have been feeding my addiction every since.

**Sirridan** · January 6, 2011, 03:04

I found rogue somehow, and from rogue came roguelikes which lead to angband.

Must have been... 8 years ago? Got one dun warrior win that I savescummed the heck out of (one ring + deathwrecker iirc) and a kobold warrior last year.

**Lebannen** · January 7, 2011, 00:51

I think I started with Hack, on the family Macintosh SE - sometime at the end of the eighties? Spent many years with that, before finding Angband (2.7.3?) - possibly on one of the very first UK MacFormat cover CD-ROMs (which served as enormous shareware compilations), which appears to be 1995.

Wandered in and out of variants for a while, settling on ZAngband as the favourite in around 2000, before heading back to Vanilla in more recent years...

**Nile** · January 7, 2011, 20:10

I found Angband in like 1998, through a freeware gaming site, maybe gamehippo. Played it for a bit with savescumming, then moved on the Z, S, NPP, and Tome. I beat tome in 2004, then came full circle back to vanilla and got my first vanilla legit win around 2007.

**bio_hazard** · January 7, 2011, 21:34

Originally posted by bio_hazard

I first played Angband in '93. my suite-mate in college had an older brother at MIT who sent the game over. I never knew there was a mac version at that point- probably good for my G.P.A. 'cause I could only play when my roommate wasn't using his computer. Same guy introduced us to Magic: the gathering.

Before that, I remember seeing someone play rogue in a computer lab at nerd camp in the mid '80's, but the jerk woudln't let me play.

There was also some kind of mid-80's game on the original Macs (tiny b&w screen) in my middle-school computer lab that wasn't ascii but may have been a rogue-like. I remember un-id'ed equipment, resting. Also maybe daleks, but that may have been a different game.

Curiosity got the better of me, and I did some digging- I think the early Macintosh game I was thinking of was Dungeon of Doom. Unfortunately my current computer can't play it, but I have an older one that I think is still working and may be able to run Classic applications.

http://www.sidhia.com/shrine.html

**grassy** · January 9, 2011, 08:49

Can't remember the date exactly but I believe it was 1988 about when I discovered a DOS version of Hack on a floppy disk left in the drive of a computer in a lab at a University in South Africa. Think it was Hack - with a dog as companion that would feed off your kills and steal stuff from shops

From there it was onto Moria and then Angband when introduced - if I remember Angband was basically a C version of the Fortran Moria. Still at it some 20 years later and it still intrigues me. I've even used it on my resume as a Morgoth kill ranks up there with life's achievements

**Angrist** · August 16, 2014, 18:48

One day, about a year ago, I was browsing a forum about mobile games. There I stumbled on android port Angband. I liked the idea of the game without graphics. I tried to play it, but then I did not understand what was happening in the game. Since then I have sometimes tried to play it again. But again, I could not even pass the first level. A few months ago I went to this site, studied the help files and finally figured out how to play it.

**klassik** · August 16, 2014, 20:08

in 1993 i had been playing cyberpunk 2020 with this group of guys in my freshman year of highschool. somewhere towards the end of the year one of them passed me a version of angband that ran on my dads 286. i was just happy with bulldozing over jackals and kobalds at 50 feet until some unique or player ghost would kill me.

any time i was separated from angband i was also separated from my computer. everytime i got a computer, the highest priority was getting the latest version of angband. and i still have not beaten it yet.

**HallucinationMushroom** · August 16, 2014, 21:24

Originally posted by klassik

somewhere towards the end of the year one of them passed me a version of angband that ran on my dads 286.

This makes me so jealous. I had a 286 that wouldn't run Angband. I had to pretend to like Moria better for a few more years.