In search of "The Game" (Score 1)

I got into the whole BBS just as it was on the way out so I didn't get a chance to piss away 1000's of hours playing telnet adventures. The fact that I started out on the dark side of the OS world also made me think that text was boring. Since those early, misled days I have learned to love using a text interface, though using the web with lynx still isn't nearly as fun as with netscape... Anyways, for the past few months I have been searching for some cool text based adventure games that I could play locally (no multi-player necessary to make this kid happy). I want(ed) some games that use very little resources so that I that I have something to do while I'm waiting for something to compile. I have a fairly fast machine but I just don't want to have X sucking up any of my resources while I'm compiling something. I'm not creative enough to design a game in Hugo, but I can't wait to play some... In my search I came across adventure++ which looks like Hugo's old grandpa. Also, I found nethack, but have been unsuccessful at compiling it... Nethack sounds like exactally what I'm looking for, a text based local adventure game. I can't wait until somebody manages to build a little tetris game into vim...