multi-user dungeon
multi-user dungeon · multi-user dungeons
A text-based online game in which players enter instructions on a command line to…A text-based online game in which players enter instructions on a command line to jointly engage in role-playing.
Meaning
2 sensesA text-based online game in which players enter instructions on a command line to jointly engage in role-playing.
(dated)An early graphical massively multiplayer online game.
Origin
From the title of the genre-defining 1978 video game Multi-User Dungeon, which was itselfFrom the title of the genre-defining 1978 video game Multi-User Dungeon, which was itself named to suggest a "multi-user" game that was otherwise similar to Dungeon, an unauthorized DEC-10 port of Zork. The title was not intended to imply a dungeon setting or any association with Dungeons & Dragons.
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Forms
plural: multi-user dungeons| Singular | multi-user dungeon |
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