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• zorkmid: /zork'mid/ n. The canonical unit of currency in hacker-written games.
  This originated in {zork} but has spread to {nethack} and is referred to in several other games....
• hello sailor! interj. Occasional West Coast equivalent of hello world
  eems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game Zork (which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor")....
• ADVENT /ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game
  first designed by Will Crowther on the PDP-10 in the mid-1970s as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976....
• Infocom n. A now-legendary games company, active from 1979 to 1989
  hat commercialized the MDL parser technology used for Zork to produce a line of text adventure games that remain favorites among hackers....
• eep-neep /neep neep/ n. [onomatopoeic, widely spread through SF fandom but reported to have originated at Caltech in the 1970s] One who is fascinated by computers.
  Less specific than hacker, as it need not imply more skill than is required to boot games on a PC....
• grue n. [from archaic English verb for `shudder'
  as with fear] The grue was originated in the game Zork (Dave Lebling took the name from Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" fantasies) and used in several other Infocom games as a hint that you should perhaps look for a lamp, torch or some type of light source....
• ogue: [UNIX] n. A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under BSD UNIX and subsequently ported to other UNIX systems.
  The original BSD `curses(3)' screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold to support `rogue(6)' and has since become one of UNIX's most important and heavily used application libraries....
• hack [very common] 1. n. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.
  2. n. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed....
• ogue 1. [Unix] n. A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently ported to other Unix systems.
  The original BSD curses(3) screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold primarily to support games, and the development of rogue(6) popularized its use...