If you want to try a multiplayer text game I'd recommend Akanbar. I would say it has the best qualities of many text games and MUDs with less of the weaknesses

If you want to try a multiplayer text game I'd recommend Akanbar. I would say it has the best qualities of many text games and MUDs with less of the weaknesses of its rivals. You don't need an emulator, you can play from the website, however it's usually advised to download a client to connect from (Mudlet, Cmud, Mushclient, TinTin) so that you can make use of triggers (copy and paste a line from the game into the client so that if that line comes up again your character will react automatically with a 'triggered' response) and aliases (shorten commands, make 'sh' sip health instead of typing it out everytime).