Anyone still remember MUD(s)?

Pewpie

Yeh, all the kids probably have no clue what i'm talking about, but ye old farts? What muds did you play?

Myself, started with Sojourn that eventually became Toril/Duris and after that a *** of other muds and even built my own.

Edit: Ohh actually the very first i did try was "Avalon", but it cost money to play so didn't stay around for long...

vyndral13preub18_ESO

Spent a bunch of time on one called Clandestine, it helped shape me in to the sarcastic *** i am today. Played a couple different wheel of time muds. Played several friends started. Im old

Teevesnacks

I used to play in the mud, still do actually but now it's combined with a bit of wrestling

tinythinker

I recall them, but I couldn't tell you the name of any I played. I did briefly get in later on the beta for a graphical MUD called "Illusia: Quest for the Eternals", and for some reason I still remember the musical introduction and can hum it or even play it by ear even though I haven't heard it in well over a decade.

Rosveen

By gamer standards I am a kid, but I do know MUDs. Only problem is that when I discovered them, they were alread past their heyday, so the population was quite low. Tbh, I don't even rememeber what I started with, but the one I played most recently was Discworld. A lot of fun, this one was.

Thralgaf

Gemstone free on AOL back in the mid 90's. Still play it to this day when I'm in between mmo's. Fun fact: the creators of Gemstone, Simutronics, are the creators of the engine that runs ESO and SWTOR, the Hero Engine.

tinythinker

Does anyone recall the one with a crucified Elmo at/near the starting area? Some of those MUDs were kind of messed up.

BKTHNDR

My roommate in college used to play MUDs all the time. I can't remember which one he was into but when he wasn't doing homework or with his girlfriend, he was playing a MUD. I couldn't get into them but it seemed like he enjoyed them.

Milrik

I played some Discworld MUD : ) .

Woogawoman

I did a little MUDding, but mostly MUSH, from '95-'98ish. In fact, I have a circle of friends around the country that I first met on PernMUSH. We started meeting in real life and have kept close long after we stopped playing.

Other games: CrystalMUSH, TrekMUSE, Star Wars I, B5 MUSH, A Moment in Tyme (Robert Jordan MUD), various World of Darkness ones I never really got into. (Hmm, perhaps that explains my lack of desire in becoming a vamp or ww here too. )

Eris

How about ICE Age Gemstone on GEnie.

dolmen

LambdaMOO way back when

Wintersage

Oh yes. I spent more'n my fair share of time on various MUDs. Nice knowing I ain't the only older gamer floating about.

Tabia

Thralgaf wrote: »

Gemstone free on AOL back in the mid 90's. Still play it to this day when I'm in between mmo's. Fun fact: the creators of Gemstone, Simutronics, are the creators of the engine that runs ESO and SWTOR, the Hero Engine.

I played DragonRealms, one of the others that was on AOL. I recently got an email from them and checked out the sub fees. I was pretty shocked the price is the same from years ago. For premium access, almost $50 a month lol!

Thechemicals

Thralgaf wrote: »

Gemstone free on AOL back in the mid 90's. Still play it to this day when I'm in between mmo's. Fun fact: the creators of Gemstone, Simutronics, are the creators of the engine that runs ESO and SWTOR, the Hero Engine.

Fun tip, this game is not run by the hero engine.

FrauPerchta

Not only do I remember playing MUDs but also PnP rpgs. For the youngsters here that's Pen & Paper. There's still an active PnP group here in Chicago that's been going strong since early '70s.

Gisgo

Yes and to be completely honest, they sucked.
I welcomed MMOs like UO and DAOC so my friends stopped playing that MUD crap.

WraithAzraiel

Ahh Simutronics....

Tabia wrote: »

I played DragonRealms, one of the others that was on AOL. I recently got an email from them and checked out the sub fees. I was pretty shocked the price is the same from years ago. For premium access, almost $50 a month lol!

Wow DR....there's a blast from the past. That game was my first encounter with the whole "online gaming" experience. I'm amazed they're still charging that much though.

PBpsy

FrauPerchta wrote: »

Not only do I remember playing MUDs but also PnP rpgs. For the youngsters here that's Pen & Paper. There's still an active PnP group here in Chicago that's been going strong since early '70s.

Kids these days still play plenty of PnP. In the days when I was a kid though I was never popular enough to have friends to play PnP D&D .I know right . Black Isles D& D pc games had to do.

I know that MUDS exist. I tried to play but It was not my thing.

kirnmalidus

@Gisgo of course they were inferior to modern MMOs. That's like saying getting around in a horse and carriage sucked because cars are better.

The technology to make them better wasn't available, and as soon as it become viable MMOs (which I consider to be MUDs with a GUI) were made.

demendred

I used to play one called Nodeka, which was a text based MUD, and Wyvern, which was a 2D MUD. Good times.

Coggage

I played a couple of games like that on Electronic BBS, one of which was called L.O.R.D. as best I can remember, but they didn't hold my interest very long.

Sarenia

Remember? There are still actively maintained MUDs out there. I have a friend who still plays one.

Alurria

I played Dragonrealms, Gemstone was great. Remember thieves hung out picking locked boxes for a price it was great. When being a thief was respectable lol

Woogawoman

Gisgo wrote: »

Yes and to be completely honest, they sucked.

There were many that were amazingly well made, as well as some that sucked, as in all things.

I was in it for the RP (text-based improv definitely improved my writing skills), but I did my share of MUSH coding as well. That was one of the cool things about them - the tools to add to the world were in the players' hands (at least more so on the MUSH/MUSE/MOO side).

I still have web pages out there for many of my characters, with links to RP logs. But I'm going to keep those to myself.

Loxy37

Thralgaf wrote: »

Gemstone free on AOL back in the mid 90's. Still play it to this day when I'm in between mmo's. Fun fact: the creators of Gemstone, Simutronics, are the creators of the engine that runs ESO and SWTOR, the Hero Engine.

Eso doesn't use the Hero Engine. Not sure where people get this idea other than Zenimax used it pre-build to see how assets would work withing a mmo type environment, it was a test bed. ESO does not use the hero engine now.

Regards MuDs I did play a few on BBS I think but I was more into adventure games and dungeon master style CRPGs back then. BBS was so cool back in the day where it took 10 minutes to download a 39kb jpeg

Edit: one I did play was mines of moria, I'm sure it was called.

Tarwin

This will age myself and probably only be answered by Americans (possibly Canadians)

Anyone remember DDial? A Really embarassing IRC

We used to have one GM, and 7 connected people through 300bd modems play

Falmer

Ahh yes... I played on several back in College. One was called Loping through the MUD. Was your typical DIKU MUD, but Lope (the coder/administrator) was very awesome at adding just a ton of new features.

Think I met the vast majority of my college friends through it actually.

Rosveen

kirnmalidus wrote: »

@Gisgo of course they were inferior to modern MMOs. That's like saying getting around in a horse and carriage sucked because cars are better.

The technology to make them better wasn't available, and as soon as it become viable MMOs (which I consider to be MUDs with a GUI) were made.

And yet people still ride horses for sport or pleasure, or buy old typing machines, or collect antique cars. MUDs have a certain charm even today.

Blackwolfe5

I remember starting on a sci-fi mud called wormhole (where star wars, star trek and all sorts of sci-fi was mixed up). Then I moved onto Elitemud and my final serious mud (that I also spent the most time on) was Realms of the Dragon. As far as I know Realms of the Dragon is still up and running.

So many fond memories of those muds. I know most of them are purely text based. But that doesn't matter. I still remember alot of the areas (somewhat visualized in my head, imagination is a powerful thing!) (then of course there were a buttload of other muds I tried out but never got into)

Sue_D_Nim

I actually don't even remember the names of any of the MUDS I toyed with. I usually tried them and left because I didn't feel I quite fit into the cliques.

Back then I mostly played the MUD-like door games on BBSes, which was largely the same thing on a more local scale. Anybody remember L.O.R.D or Illusions?