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

From: Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
Date: Fri Dec 8 14:44:22 2000

> 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.
>

I seem to recall such a system running here in the Pacific Northwest. It
started out as PPS - Pirates of Puget Sound, then went to calling
themselves Polynet Public Systems. It all started on Apple ][ class
machines and eventually moved into some kind of Unix machine for the
larger multi-player D&D game/bbs they had going. I know of two systems
named GSPPS and BSPPS for sure, but I'm VERY fuzzy on the rest.

g.
Received on Fri Dec 08 2000 - 14:44:22 GMT