What was your first?

[Pete Mack]

Rogue remains the absolute toughest roguelike of all. As far as I know it's the only rpg strategy game that had an AI paper published on writing a learning borg (Rog-O-Matic).

(I read it a few years ago--absolutely amazing.)

How long I've been failing to win in rogue is: forever. I never got past umber hulk depth. It still brings powerdiving a whole new meaning.

[Jungle_Boy]

Rogue remains the absolute toughest roguelike of all. As far as I know it's the only rpg strategy game that had an AI paper published on writing a learning borg (Rog-O-Matic).

(I read it a few years ago--absolutely amazing.)

How long I've been failing to win in rogue is: forever. I never got past umber hulk depth. It still brings powerdiving a whole new meaning.

When I started playing rogue I had absolutely no documentation, I don't even know how it got on the computer and the first game I played I got stuck in a doorless room with an 'I'. I never did find a door and eventually died of starvation. Talk about an inauspicious beginning. The only thing I knew as far as a goal was that there was an icon for something called an 'amulet of yendor' so I figured that was what I was looking for. I thought it was probably on level 10 since I had never gotten a character even close to that level, then I eventually got one into the teens which I think was my best ever.

[bio_hazard]

Angband was my first (early/mid '90s). I just found Rogue a couple of months ago when it came out for the iPod. While I can appreciate it's simplicity, it is not nearly as much fun.