And so, as promised, I come to the end of this blog’s overlong involvement with MUD1. I never intended to spend so long playing it, and I certainly never intended to take a ten-month break between posts. Still, real life can be hard sometimes, and virtual life can sometimes be […]
Game 25: MUD1 (1978)
After that little detour into Richard Garriot’s DND1, it’s time to get back to my regular schedule with the similarly-named MUD1. MUD1 (which stands for Multi-User Dungeon) was created by a student named Roy Trubshaw in 1978 at the University of Essex, on a DEC PDP-10 mainframe (with development later […]