MUDs and MUSHes, remember those? These were the first multiplayer online role-playing games, popular in the 1990s and largely text-based. In the case of a MUSH, playing involved writing thousands of words, a skill that’s proven useful later in life for some enthusiasts.
I suppose April 1st is as good a day as ever to revisit the ruins of the Great Underground Empire, as Jolt Online Gaming launches their free-to-play browser-based adventure game, Legends of Zork.
You may recall that MUD creator Richard Bartle took issue with a torture quest in WoW: Wrath Of The Lich King. He got a few responses, some rather critical and others rather trollish.
Richard Bartle – co-author of the original MMO game MUD, but you knew that already, right? – has been playing Wrath of the Lich King and does not like what he has found.
If,on your way to work/school this morning, you saw a bunch of hung-over warriors and bedraggled mages blearily waking up in a shop doorway they were probably just on their way home from the 30th birthday pub crawl they organised for the Massively Multiplayer genre.
