The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play

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The History Of NetHack

1980

Rogue, The OG Dungeon Crawler, is released

1983

1984

Andries Brouwer releases a major retooling of Hack, version 1.0

1987

1988

NetHack version 2.3e is released

1989

The DevTeam forms and releases NetHack 3.0, a major rewrite of the game

1989    - 1992

NetHack is upgraded to 3.0.10 and ported to various platforms

1993

Izchak Miller posts NetHack 3.1.0 to Usenet on behalf of The DevTeam

1996

NetHack 3.2 is dedicated to Miller, who passed way in 1994

1999

NetHack 3.3, the 24th public release of NetHack, is published

2002

NetHack 3.4 is released by The DevTeam

2003

NetHack 3.4.3 is made available

2015

After a 10+ year hiatus, a new version of NetHack is released

You play NetHack for the first time and fall madly in love with it


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