19 Jun
2020
19 Jun
'20
12:06 p.m.
On Jun 19, 2020, at 2:32 PM, Lars Brinkhoff <lars
at nocrew.org> wrote:
Paul Koning wrote:
Spasim from 1974 is usually regarded as contemporary with Maze.
I'm not so sure about that 1973 dating; after all it's Wikipedia.
Yes, I can confirm Jim Bowery's spasim was created in November 1974. And I'm
fairly sure it wasn't the first MUG. It was actually rather ambitious for the time
because it has a full 3d model, as opposed to some other games that were more like 2d (or
stack of 2d, as in a number of the "dungeon and dragons" games). I just checked
the history section of the "dnd" game on Cyber1; it makes it pretty clear that
MU versions existed in 1974.
"airfight" is dated 1976.
paul
I think
Greg Thompson said he brought Maze to MIT in 1974. Wikipedia
says 1973. The game was first developed at NASA Ames in 1972.
Ok, chances are
that predates PLATO MUGs by 2-3 years.