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Moria (1976)

by Jim Battin, Kevet Duncombe

Genres:Role-playing (RPG)

Themes:Fantasy

Game modes:Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Story:Moria is a dungeon crawl style role-playing video game first developed for the PLATO system around 1975, with copyright dates listed as 1978 and 1984. It was a pioneering game, allowing parties of up to ten players to travel as a group and message each other, dynamically generating dungeons (instead of pre-computing them), and featuring a wireframe first-person perspective display. One of its authors, Kevet Duncombe, claims not to have read the works of J. R. R. Tolkien or heard of Dungeons & Dragons at the time development started, but he was aware of the PLATO game, dnd.Show more

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February 02, 2025

A PLATO collection of games available on GOG would be incredible. Keeping the spirit of these pioneering multiplayer experiences going via an accessible client would change the face of game preservation.

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