Roguelike games have grown in popularity over the 40 years the genre has existed, even though they implement ideas that might seem anathema to popular gaming: extreme randomness, ASCII graphics, ...

One of the joys of modern technology is how easy it is to immerse yourself in the past. Every day, more libraries and archives are pushing pieces of their collections online in easily browsable ...

And, of course, they are often used to create pornography. Section of Ingrid (Textfiles) Though it is still around today, ASCII art reached the zenith of its popularity before the web. It was the ...

I still routinely play Angband. Although now days I'll willingly use tiles instead of ASCII. That game taught me how to use 10-key.