> On Jun 19, 2020, at 11:34 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Noel Chiappa wrote:
>>> Paul Koning wrote:
>>> airfight and any number of other multi-user games -- a thing made
>>> popular by PLATO and possibly originated there.
>>
>> What was the date on that? Multi-player MazeWar on the Imlacs/ITS at
>> MIT was running before 1976 (I played it about then), but I don't
>> recall exactly when it first ran (before my time).
>
> 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.
paul
