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| | MUD History - Summary, Richard Bartle, MUD1, Zork, Adventure, D&D, AberMUD, LPMUD, MOO, Multi-User Dungeon |
 | | At the same time, the early computer adventure games were partly influenced by DandD in that several of the game developers, including Will Crowther, Dave Lebling, and Richard Bartle, were DandD aficionados. |
 | | DandD was developed by Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax in the early 1970's, and involve intricate, complex games where players take on the aspects of characters from fantasy worlds -- warrior, wizard, shaman, prince -- acquire and lose magical powers, and progress through fantastic adventures involving travel through wild and wonderful worlds. |
 | | The first widely used computer adventure game was created in 1973 by Will Crowther on a DEC PDP-10 computer, and coincidentally had earlier also worked on the ARPANET IMP. |
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