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22468: Re: [MUD-Dev] Online Worlds Timeline Update

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From: Travis Casey <efindel@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 23:07:36 -0500
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Saturday 23 February 2002 1:19, Christopher Allen wrote:

> I think it is worth nothing that Rick Loomis, the author of the
> play-by-mail game StarWeb, of Flying Buffalo, was the first to buy
> a computer just to play games in 1972. See

>   http://www.flyingbuffalo.com/history.htm

> for more details. It also has some information on Tunnels &
> Trolls, a very early RPG after D&D.

It was, in fact, the second published RPG -- and for a short time,
T&T had better sales than D&D.  For a lot more on the creation of
T&T, see:

  http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/9921/itgrows.html

which is part of Ken St. Andre (the designer of T&T)'s web site.

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