tims@mako.UUCP (Tim Stoehr) (06/11/84)
Why does anyone play this ridiculous game? It's a complete reem-job. No matter how fantastically lucky you get, which you have to be to get to level 20, you still get stuck between two phantoms and two black unicorns, and gee, too bad I used my scare monster scroll when I fought those five troll two minutes ago, and the other one I burned by reading, etc. You can't win this mess, and how far you get is dependent on random chance. I have an idea, if you feel like a game of rogue while your computer is down, go strap yourself to an anthill and you'll get the same effect.
ab3@stat-l (Rsk the Wombat) (06/12/84)
I'd like to point out that the game has been won (in all its versions)
a number of times by people all over the country, and that the world you're
trying to use is "ream".
Thank you.
--
Rsk the Wombat
UUCP: { allegra, decvax, ihnp4, harpo, teklabs, ucbvax } !pur-ee!rsk
{ allegra, cornell, decvax, hplabs, ihnp4, ucbvax} !purdue!rskchuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (06/13/84)
>Why does anyone play this ridiculous game? It's a complete reem-job. >No matter how fantastically lucky you get, which you have to be to get >to level 20, you still get stuck between two phantoms and two black >unicorns, and gee, too bad I used my scare monster scroll when I fought >those five troll two minutes ago, and the other one I burned by reading, >etc. You can't win this mess, and how far you get is dependent on random >chance. I have an idea, if you feel like a game of rogue while your >computer is down, go strap yourself to an anthill and you'll get the >same effect. As someone who has now won 5.3 twice, all I can say is that if you haven't won, you haven't tried hard enough (and especially long enough). You CAN win, and one of the real joys of the stupid game is that it is hard enough that winning is a real ego boost. If I want to win, I'll go cheat at solitaire. If I want a challenge, I'll go fight rogue. By the way, I think you will find the word is spelled 'ream'. -- From the ledge of the seventh cornice: Chuq Von Rospach {amd70,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui (408) 733-2600 x242 Love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. - Saint Exupery
wjb@burl.UUCP (Bill Buie) (06/13/84)
-- One mild correction to the claim that rogue has been one in all its incarnations: there is the imitation we play here, cbrogue (rumored to have been developed at Bell Labs in Columbus, Ohio), that nobody has won so far as I can tell. I've tried several times to contact anybody who has so I can find out how-to. No luck. It has several annoying characteristics (notably what monsters appear at what level) that render conventional strategies void. If a winner reads this PLEASE mail me! -- --Bill Buie
ee163abi@sdccs7.UUCP (The Holyone) (06/16/84)
Hey I think the word you were trying to use was WORD not world thank YOU