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  Angband n. /ang'band/ Like nethack, moria, and rogue, one of the
     large freely distributed Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games,
     available for a wide range of machines and operating systems. The name
     is from Tolkien's Pits of Angband (compare elder days, elvish). Has
     been described as "Moria on steroids"; but, unlike Moria, many aspects
     of the game are customizable. This leads many hackers and would-be
     hackers into fooling with these instead of doing productive work. There
     are many Angband variants, of which the most notorious is probably the
     rather whimsical Zangband. In this game, when a key that does not
     correspond to a command is pressed, the game will display "Type ? for
     help" 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time, random error messages
     including "An error has occurred because an error of type 42 has
     occurred" and "Windows 95 uninstalled successfully" will be displayed.
     Zangband also allows the player to kill Santa Claus (who has some really
     good stuff, but also has a lot of friends), "Bull Gates", and Barney the
     Dinosaur (but be watchful; Barney has a nasty case of halitosis). There
     is an official angband home page at `http://www.phial.com/angband' and a
     zangband one at `http://thangorodrim.angband.org'. See also Random
     Number God.