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MegaWars Dawn of the Third Age
MegaWars Dawn of the Third Age
In order to talk about MegaWars – Dawn of the Third Age I feel I need to delve into the well of ancient games from which I drew the title of this blog. It is been a while since I’ve gone here, so a refresher might be due. Back in the early-to-mid 1980s personal computers were becoming common, modems were increasingly becoming an option for the, and online services like CompuServe and GEnie began…
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Stellar Emperor Remake
I have written a bit in the past about the Kesmai game MegaWars III, which ran on CompuServe, and its twin on GEnie, Stellar Emperor.
It always raise somebody’s ire when I call them twins. They were, in fact, as close as twins when I was playing Stellar…
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This makes me feel nostalgic. My first "MMO".
1984. Jeez! Now i feel old.
What made it more expensive is that there was a significant time lag between the players and the game. Island of Kesmai processed a user command every 10 seconds, which meant that for every command given, you were paying $0.016 in game time. The cost didn't stop players from flocking to it, and when the doors were opened to the public, Island of Kesmai became the world's first commercial online world.
