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Moria (1976)

Jim Battin, Kevet Duncombe

PLATO

2.25 from 4 ratings

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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. … Read more
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. Read less
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Details

Developers
Jim Battin, Kevet Duncombe
Genres
Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Fantasy

Release dates

  • Q1 1976 (Full Release) (North_America) PLATO
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Rating distribution

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mrmiffmiff

Status mrmiffmiff Sep 6, 2022

I'm not gonna give an actual review of this right now, it wouldn't be fair. I think I'm getting burnt out on the PLATO dungeon crawlers, plus this one is a rather annoying combination of tedious and open-ended. One day I'll return, probably.

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scoopings

Status scoopings Nov 5, 2021

This looks incredible. But it seems cyber1 isn't taking new users? If anybody has any info on how to play this 2021-and-beyond, hit me up!

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