What is NetHack?

NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine. Unlike many other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in NetHack is on discovering the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight - in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly. Each game presents a different landscape - the random number generator provides an essentially unlimited number of variations of the dungeon and its denizens to be discovered by the player in one of a number of characters: you can pick your race, your role, and your gender.

Glad you enjoyed it as much as I did

Surely memory prices hit consoles the same. Unless you specifically meant making the switch now is expensive.

I’ve been on PC for decades, I don’t think I’ve ever paid 2500, and never bought “bad” hardware.

The Steam Box releasing this year may very well be a great alternative for “easy setup” and “easy fire-up”. A PC with its open ecosystem, but a default OS that is much like consoles, a gaming platform frontend.