What was your first?

[The Sparrow]

Having gone through a few of these discussion topics got me interested. What was your first Roguelike? I see a lot of old Moria hands (like myself) quite a few nethackers, and plenty of others....

[HallucinationMushroom]

Moria. A buggy version where see invisible didn't work. Unable to see Balrog = lots of tramplings! I finally beat it 15 years later on a stable version.

[AR_chie]

Angband playing on Amiga 1200 in mid 90's. I found this game with collection of other games on CD.

[Narvius]

Castle of the Winds.
^.^
From these here, ADOM. Quickly turned to Crawl then to Nethack. Gave up after one day.
Angband, stayed.

[Big Al]

Mission: Thunderbold, then Nethack, then Angband, then various *band variants.

[Nick]

Castle of the Winds.

Me too. I looked briefly at another roguelike (maybe Moria) sometime in the 90s, and then got interested in Angband 5 or 6 years ago when someone brought the borg into my office...

[Mondkalb]

I also got hooked with the wonderful graphical Moria-Version on the Amiga.

[tigpup]

Moria on a mac in early '90s.

-Neil

[Lebannen]

For me it was Hack, back in 89/90, on my father's Macintosh SE/30. It was a revelation seeing those pinsharp fonts (Monaco 9 - the One True Font for # walls, though a bit too small these days!) being used to represent such a game.

I still remember Hack very fondly (Nethack never felt the same to me). I never got further than about dlevel 3-4 though, being about ten at the time

Then it was Angband and Omega, I can't remember in which order, in the mid-nineties. Somehow I managed to sidestep Moria completely.

[takkaria]

Having gone through a few of these discussion topics got me interested. What was your first Roguelike? I see a lot of old Moria hands (like myself) quite a few nethackers, and plenty of others....

I started on UMoria 5.2.1 on Acorn, which if I recall was patched to have colour support. Sometime after, I came across Angband 2.8.3, but it was Zangband 2.2.8 that got me into hacking.

[Donald Jonker]

I found Rogue, Nethack, Angband, and ADOM on a DOS game site while looking for Commander Keen. I can't remember which one I actually fired up first, but I tried them all out for a little bit but settled on Nethack. The thing that drove me away from Angband back then was Farmer Maggot - I spent a few hours trying to lead his dogs back up out of the dungeon.

[ekolis]

I got Nethack from a shareware compilation disk back in the early '90s or so when I was a kid... part of the appeal of the game to me was that my dad didn't care for it so he didn't install it on his PC, and he didn't like people installing stuff on his PC, so it was kinda like "forbidden fruit"!

Later I found Mangband, but for some reason I couldn't figure out that it was supposed to be multiplayer, so the "error connecting to network" messages made absolutely no sense to me (this was in the days of dialup), and I figured I just lacked the leet skillz to configure the game properly! :P

I also got addicted to Castle of the Winds (my brothers did too - that's the only roguelike they really cared about!), and found the tiles version of Nethack, and vanilla Angband and its numerous single-player variants (never did play Mangband after all, even now that I know what it is!), and Crawl, and the recent explosion of mini-roguelikes...

Oh, I forgot to mention ADOM and ToME... I was addicted to those for a while as well!

[Karzack]

I found ADOM when I was searching for RPGs on GameHippo. This was around 10 years ago I think. I can't fully remember. I never had a computer until I moved out on my own so I missed out on the earlier roguelikes.

I moved on to nethack after a search for more of these types of games. I should say briefly moved on. I really didn't/still don't like nethack.

After I found the *bands (which wasn't long after finding ADOM) I have pretty much stuck to them when I get a roguelike craving.

[Psi]

I liked RPGs, so mail-ordered (those were the days) several interesting looking disks for my amiga from a public domain software distribution company back in '89/90 I guess. These included Moria and Larn. I was instantly smitten. I'd spend hours rolling hobbit rogues for the best stats (until I broke my Escape key - and blamed it on my brother) and I'd always get so far in the game until a breakout of Big Blue Icky Things would inevitably blind me etc and then it would be back to rolling again. Larn was of course a lot simpler, but I'd replay it in the hope of getting a better winning score.

A friend mentioned Angband to me in about '97 and I was in love again. My first char got the Beaked Axe of Theoden from an OoD ?Acquirement and was able to acitvate it to one shot baby dragons - I was so excited...

[Larvitz]

2 Years ago... I discovered Angband, through Wikipedia, thereafter I found every other one out there.

Being only 18 now however, I was a bit young to play the old ones, in their younger days... 3 year olds and roguelikes don't mix. ^_^