Anyone ever play text based MUDs back in the day?

Kinda cool, not as fun without the other humans.

Hell yes, was playing Aardwolf & Lensmoor a few years ago. Lensmoor is still active last I checked.

Hell yeah, back in the day

Met my husband in one back in 2002, still together

Yeah, I think people just wanted to to talk sex when all the adventuring was done.

I like that!

It seems the text based stuff didn't really go away. I suppose we are actually doing it now.

Very cool

I used to play on local BBSs. Can't recall the name of the MUD I liked. Pit or something? Spent hours on it. I was a real nerd. :)
Infinity Complex was a fun one!

I played zork

Like online dungeons and dragons?

yeah a big early computers thing, through the 80s

I was born 1980 so missed that.

Doesn't it take away the whole social aspect of d'n'd?

Yes it does, you're own lead models and story lines, a group of people at the table, MUDs replicated that but there was no negative feeling at the time. Who gatheres at a table now?

For anyone who's puzzled:

a MUD game is a multi-user dungeon type of thing.

I've played some text-based games, but single user.

Thanks, I am guilty of thinking people will know wtf I am talking about

Yep. My first was Legends of Terris on AOL. Then I learned about telnet, GMud, and ZMud clients. Got into some GodWars muds and DBZ muds. My absolute favorite was called ThievesWorld. Played for years.

Never quite got into Aardwolf or some of the other big name muds that escape me at the moment.

I miss my TW.

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Zork, Zork 2, Zork 3. Infocom was the company. Used to create maps as I played. These games were awesome.

How about some other old school games like Bard's Tale and Ultima?

correct if i am wrong but i believe aidungeon is open source and can be downloaded. you do need a graphic card with at least 12gb of ram to run the AI though.

iv a phone a xbox s and a new laptop....,but no family that uses tiny parts of it ,now i just need a printer ):

lol mate. Private rooms?

that or create your own fork/game

I used to play a game called "MUDS" back on my Amiga 500.

MEAN
UGLY
DIRTY
SPORT

It wasn't text based but it was like a football game with monsters.

It was actually one of my favorite games for the Amiga.

I never had the Commodore 64, I had an Oric Atmos.

There was a text-based adventure game called Zodiac that I enjoyed, but I never got through it.

Now that I was reminded on it, I guess I'll have to watch a playthrough on YouTube to find out WTF the 'final ingredient' was that the witch wanted!

i used to masturbate to the ET game they had on atari..


it was limited edition

Well that was a letdown. There was no witch in the game in this playtrough!

Guess it got Mandela'd...

Yep. Love me some zork

Zork I, ll & lll and some bbs & Delphi games

Moongate and Asylum were my faves in the mid-90s. Haven't thought of them in years, now I miss them. Ah, why can't life be so simple again?

I have been a builder and immort on a few of them.