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"...Meridian 59, the first computer game that allowed people from around the world to gather and quest together via the Internet." Have these people never hear
by Harimwakairi 9y ago
"...Meridian 59, the first computer game that allowed people from around the world to gather and quest together via the Internet."
Have these people never heard of a MUD?
- merlincorey 9y agoMy thoughts exactly. I think people don't realize that MUDs can have much more extensive interfaces than just "Adventure> " prompts, and that they have for a very very long time!
- runevault 9y agoEveryone forgets about MUDs. God I put so many hours into them, even was a coder on one for a little while before college and other things got in the way.
- loarake 9y agoI wish MUDs were featured more prominently in online gaming history. They basically defined my childhood, and I learned how to code by writing vendor bots on a MUD. Dealing with edge cases (customers trying to buy invisible items without being able to see invisible!) and people trying to scam my bots taught me some valuable programming lessons that stick with me to this day.
- rabbyte 9y agothat should say "first graphical" because at the time it was pitched as the first 3D online MUD. They had to stress that internet was required because at the time even networked games didn't require internet.
- DamionS 9y agoI can tell you that most of us who coded Meridian 59 knew what MUDs were =) In retrospect, there were a lot of things that Meridian wanted to claim we were first at, but there were people who beat us on almost everything: graphics in a MUD, 3D controls to a virtual world, etc. The one exception MAY be that we were the first MMO/MUD to have a box product and a subscription fee (most online games before us used daily or hourly charges, but we came out right around when AOL changed the billing model, and everyone else rearranged their billing models to match).