MUD1
Released in 1978 on Mainframe, mmorpg.
- Year: 1978
- Platform: Mainframe
- Genre: MMORPG
- Developer: Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle
Overview
The first shared text world, built at Essex University, where players coined the term MUD. Avatars, clans and grinding all took their first steps here, upstream of every graphical MMO that followed.
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