[Oberon]

Roge/Hack/PC Hack/NetHack/Moria/Angband.

I first played this game as "Rogue" on an IBM portable PC in 1984. The screen was a seven-inch amber monochrome, there were two 5 1/4 floppy drives and no hard drive, and the keyboard went "tacka-tacka-tacka" like an Underwood electric typewriter...but the game was addictive, and I was badly hooked.

[willgolfforfood]

If you want an addictive, ancient game, try "Spacegoose". I played that after work (5:30 to dark) at a job I had in the late 80's/early 90's.

Hey, the boss brought it in from home, so I just went with it.

It had the most unique feature - when you hit "Ctrl B" [the Boss key] it shut off all sound and images and plopped a graph onto your screen. So in 1 second you could pause the game and make the boss think you were looking at some kind of business related graph.

[Still Thinking]

I still insist on a keyboard that goes "tacka-tacka-tacka". I can't type on the soft mushy ones.

[rit]

We had an IT department where too many were playing rogue during the day. The players went so far as renaming it vi(1) or a.out and installing in their local bin to avoid "rouge" showing up in the system activity reports. Finally, we installed a version with an empty magic user password so that people would get bored of the game... sure enough that did it.