8 Dec
2000
8 Dec
'00
2:44 p.m.
Anyone remember having a multi-player D&D/MUD
like game dial-up
service in their city? I'm thinking around 1985 or earlier... it was
some sort of a timeshare system with 8/16/24 ports that people could
dial in to at an hourly rate and play. As I recall it was some sort of
franchise and we had one here in Milwaukee (414 area code) that was
quite popular- I believe it was called Sceptre, but I'm not sure if that
was the name of the game/world/town, etc.
I seem to recall such a system running here in the Pacific Northwest. It
started out as PPS - Pirates of Puget Sound, then went to calling
themselves Polynet Public Systems. It all started on Apple ][ class
machines and eventually moved into some kind of Unix machine for the
larger multi-player D&D game/bbs they had going. I know of two systems
named GSPPS and BSPPS for sure, but I'm VERY fuzzy on the rest.
g.