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Lost Online Games From the Pre-Web Era

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-are-no-match-for-my-imperial-starship dept.

harrymcc writes "Long before the Web came along, people were playing online games — on BBSes, on services such as Prodigy and CompuServe, and elsewhere. Gaming historian Benj Edwards has rounded up a dozen RPGs, MUDs, and other fascinating curiosities from the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s — and the cool part is: they're all playable on the Web today." What old games were good enough for you to watch them scroll by on your 300 baud modem?

3 of 186 comments (clear)

  1. Re:MUD's, the first MMO's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heh, I remember getting into MUSH's and MUD's back when 2400 bps.

    Shit man, we were playing chess by mail long before those new-fangled mo'dems came along.

  2. Re:Oh, if I could get the hours lost back by ultranova · · Score: 4, Funny

    And then there was LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon), Solar Realms Elite, Trade Wars, and the other door games.

    LORD: the game where you could have sex with a severed head. Kinda makes modern MMORPGs seem like pussies :).

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    Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.

  3. Re:Oh, if I could get the hours lost back by Spatial · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently it also makes severed heads look like pussies.