Moria (PLATO)
This article is about the game written for the PLATO computer system. For other uses, see Moria (disambiguation).
PLATO Moria's splash screen
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.[1]
See also
Sources
- Moria at cyber1.org, where one may play the game
- Fun with PLATO at Armchair Arcade
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