Moria
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…
31 March 1976
Moria is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Jim Battin, released 31 March 1976 on PLATO.
What Moria is
Moria is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Jim Battin and released in 1976. It is available on PLATO only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy.
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When did Moria come out?
Moria was released on 31 March 1976 for PLATO.
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