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I’ve been playing since 1987 with the IBM PC version called Hack. My friend’s floppy disk got damaged so he couldn’t use a scroll of identify because it crashed the game, but he was still able to finish the game without it. For Hack all you needed to do was find the Amulet of Yendor under a boulder and bring it to the top. I’ve never ascended on Nethack though despite all my time invested. I’m probably playing it wro…
That sounds closer to Rogue than Nethack.
No it was called Hack. This is around 1985 or 1986.