On Fri 2001/09/28 07:06:39 CDT, Jamie Ostrowski <jamie at getsetnet.net> writes:
>     Does anyone know where I can find sources or binaries (preferably
> sources) of shell based Linux games? I have done some hunting, but most of
> what I find is all X-windows based, and I only have a couple shell based
> games on my machine. I'd like more. Can anyone point me in the right
> direction? Thanks!

http://www.skoardy.demon.co.uk/rlnews/

This has links to pretty much all of the rogue-like games out there.  
Almost all of these are "ascii graphics" games (usually using curses).