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Multi-Users in Middle-earth

MUME, Multi-Users in Middle-earth, is a DikuMUD based upon J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth that has been continuously running, enhanced, and remastered since fall of 1991. In MUME, players are encouraged to…

31 December 1992

Multi-Users in Middle-earth is a hack and slash/beat 'em up, released 31 December 1992 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Multi-Users in Middle-earth is

Multi-Users in Middle-earth was released in 1992. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on DikuMUD.

The premise, in the publisher's words

MUME has been around a number of years and has a lot of interesting features. It has thousands of rooms, covering the Blue Mountains in the west, the Grey Havens, Bree, the Shire, Fornost in the north, Tharbad in the south, Rivendell, the Misty Mountains, the Carrock and Lórien to the east. There are other places such as the dreaded Mines of Moria, the Orc Caves, the dark and ancient Old Forest, the forest of Mirkwood, the mysterious forest Fangorn and the Troll Warrens. You can meet a lot of interesting people, such as the elves Cirdan, Elrond, Arwen, Celeborn or Galadriel, the leader of the Istari-Council Saruman, the mean trolls Bill, Bert and Tom or you can just buy a beer in Barliman's…
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are open world.

Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series

Multi-Users in Middle-earth is the 11th of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. The next entry was Yubiwa Monogatari: Dai-ni-kan - Futatsu no Tou in 1993.

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What it launched against

Multi-Users in Middle-earth launched on 31 December 1992, within three weeks of Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting and Moto Roader MC.

Released around the same time: Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Moto Roader MC.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

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When did Multi-Users in Middle-earth come out?
Multi-Users in Middle-earth was released on 31 December 1992 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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