Pseudo_Intellectual (66360) on 10/5/2010 6:06 PM · Permalink · Report

A cursory googling reveals no indication that there was any sort of client-side terminal software run by the player beyond whatever they would have used to connect to Sprint or Compuserve, meaning the list of platforms is just a list of contemporary computers which might have typically made such a connection.

I for one welcome this kind of submission into mobygames but as with the discworld MUD before it, it fits uneasily in our existing platform categorization system. I suppose this means I should finalise my "terminal games" description (covering MUDs, BBS door games, and games offered by early online services such as this), perhaps with games doing double-platform-duty if they had client software or if we know what the backend ran on (through which it could be played locally).