MegaWars III
MegaWars III was a massively multiplayer empire building game written by Kesmai and run continuously on CompuServe between 1984 and 1999. It was one of CompuServe's most popular games throughout its lifetime…
MegaWars III is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Kesmai, released 31 December 1984 on Call-A-Computer time-shared mainframe computer system.
What MegaWars III is
MegaWars III is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Kesmai and released in 1984. It was published by Compuserve. It is available on Call-A-Computer time-shared mainframe computer system only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
MegaWars III was a massively multiplayer empire building game written by Kesmai and run continuously on CompuServe between 1984 and 1999. It was one of CompuServe's most popular games throughout its lifetime with thousands of players joining the month-long game cycles. It was only shut down after CIS was purchased by AOL and moved to the web-based "CompuServe 2000" interface that would not cleanly support it. A modified version, Stellar Emperor ran for much of the same time period on GEnie, also ending in 1999 when that service was shut down by General Electric. A new version of Stellar Emperor, sporting a new client-server GUI, was run for a short period on Kesmai's GameStorm.
How it plays
Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and science fiction.
What it launched against
MegaWars III launched on 31 December 1984, within three weeks of Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike and Bomb Jack.
Released around the same time: Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike, Bomb Jack.
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