Linux.com: CLI for Noobies: Let’s Go!

“I’ve heard the whimpering in the back. Some of you wimps think
the the command-line interface is just too hard. All work and no
play, you say. Well, stifle that kind of talk, mister! Linux is
(according to Torvalds) all about fun. And the CLI is no exception
to that rule. This week we’ll take a look at a console game just to
prove that point. Ready? Let’s Go.

“According the the development history page, the first computer
version of the game appeared in 1989 in a series of posts to
comp.sources.games on USENET…”

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