Daily Archive: July 31, 2009

There and Back Again, an Achievement Whore’s Tale

I can say that all of my gaming falls between two categories, MUDs and console gaming (XBox 360, and Wii) My life as a gamer began as just a 4 year old little boy glued to the TV playing Super Mario Brothers on the NES and eating Lucky Charms (I now eat Frosted Flakes).  I …

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Before there was WoW, there were MUDs

Depending on which definition you read, MUD stands for either Multi-User-Domain or Dungeon. Their origins go back to 1976 when Adventure which was programmed on a computer likely running with a Dorito processor. This was a dungeons and dragons themed (D&D) text based game where users played by entering commands into the game to perform …

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