Been playing for over 10 years now. I love it, it’s incredible and I’m so glad it’s still around. Might have to make a go for the amulet again today, dust off the old files.

Man, I put so many hours into nethack, back in 1992. I was working nights as a computer operator on a VAX/VMS system in a hospital lab. About half of every night was just sitting around, and I had access to a compiler and a modem, so I downloaded and installed nethack. I worked there for 3 years, and probably played nethack 10 hours/week for most of those three years.

Played it for about a year a long time ago, I think it was the PC version? I'd played it even earlier but it was "taking too long". Plenty of food-related deaths.

So I read all the FAQs and spoilers, it was still hard! But now I could make progress and learn some real strategy, as well as understand which spoilers were actually relevant. So after a year I was finally able to ascend.

Since then I've really enjoyed rogue-likes and other turn-based games.