Quote Originally Posted by jinkobi View Post

MUDS weren't my first game of that type. My first multiuser D&D game was called Scepter of Goth circa 82-84. We payed 10$ an hour to play on a 300 baud modem. GamBit/Scepter of Goth were like the father of the MUDS. In the end MUDS were far more advanced than Scepter ever dreamed of becoming. It deserves credit though for being the first MUD type game.

All this nostalgia got me to rambling
Oy, yeah - I had an Apple ][ (originally with a WHOPPING 16k RAM, eventually we upped it to a then ungodly 64k) as my first machine. I think it was '77 when we got that, and then a year later we got a disk drive and a micromodem (300 baud, baby!). I used to do horrible things to my parent's phone bill by using BBS's and the like. My favorite was one bulletin board system that would let you play Eamon and you could, if you paid for the premium service (which was some ridiculous hourly rate), play it with 1 other person. There was no boxing, but I did learn Applesoft BASIC inside and out by writing a pretty fun set of BBS software so I could have my own board.

I also remember playing some dungeon game on the PLATO system at school, but I'd have to look it up - I think it was multiplayer, but it might have just had a kind of lobby for people to chat.

Fun times!