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KaVir · 12-26-2007, 05:42 PM

MUD certainly wasn't the first game, or even the first multiplayer game, but it was one of the two first games of its kind (the other being Sceptre of Goth which was written independently the same year), and is the game from which our genre gets its name.

The game wasn't actually launched under the name "British Legends" until 1987, the same year as Gemstone (and the same year that AberMUD was released). The original British Legends was shut down in 1999, and the current game of the same name is a ported version running since 2000, which is designed to be "an accurate reconstruction of the world's first Multi-User Dungeon".

Of course 7 years is still pretty old, and the game is also of historical interest.

12-26-2007, 05:42 PM	#4
KaVir Legend Join Date: Apr 2002 Name: Richard Home MUD: God Wars II Posts: 2,052	Re: British Legends - The Original & Still the Best! MUD certainly wasn't the first game, or even the first multiplayer game, but it was one of the two first games of its kind (the other being Sceptre of Goth which was written independently the same year), and is the game from which our genre gets its name. The game wasn't actually launched under the name "British Legends" until 1987, the same year as Gemstone (and the same year that AberMUD was released). The original British Legends was shut down in 1999, and the current game of the same name is a ported version running since 2000, which is designed to be "an accurate reconstruction of the world's first Multi-User Dungeon". Of course 7 years is still pretty old, and the game is also of historical interest.