q: old dial-up MUD-like commercial game?

From: Ryan K. Brooks <ryan_at_hack.net>
Date: Fri Dec 8 14:02:36 2000

Just having a moment of nostalgia here..

    Anyone remember having a multi-player D&D/MUD like game dial-up
service in their city? I'm thinking around 1985 or earlier... it was
some sort of a timeshare system with 8/16/24 ports that people could
dial in to at an hourly rate and play. As I recall it was some sort of
franchise and we had one here in Milwaukee (414 area code) that was
quite popular- I believe it was called Sceptre, but I'm not sure if that
was the name of the game/world/town, etc.

Just wondering what kind of hardware & software was hosting this game;
it was quite addictive (or perhaps I was mesmerized by trying to use an
80-column terminal on a C64).

Thanks,

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