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	Meridian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meridian (astronomy): an imaginary circle perpendicular to the horizon.
		Meridian was a comic book series published by CrossGen in the early 2000s, and was the name of a city-state in that comic.
		Meridian is also a term used by the Public Land Survey System in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meridian (301 words)

	Meridian 59 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meridian 59 is an online computer role-playing game first published by 3DO Studios and now run by Near Death Studios.
		Meridian 59, often credited as being the first 3D massively multiplayer game, was published in September 1996 by 3DO.
		Meridian 59 features six cities and towns: the rebellious mining town of Jasper, the royal city of Barloque, the thriving but troubled Tos, the peaceful farming village of Marion, the crossroads lake-side university town of Cor Noth, and the independent jungle island settlement of Ko'Catan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meridian_59 (1237 words)

	meridian - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about meridian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		By international convention, the meridian line at Greenwich, which runs through the Royal Observatory telescope, marks 0° longitude and is the point from which all other lines of longitude are measured.
		An astronomical meridian is a great circle passing through the celestial pole and the zenith (the point immediately overhead).
		Meridian is an important centre for the cotton market and has cotton and timber mills.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /meridian (412 words)

	Meridian 59 for PC Review - PC Meridian 59 Review
		Meridian 59 is only as good as its population.
		Meridian 59 is a tremendous value for any role-playing gamer looking to engage in a vast and ever-changing 3-D fantasy world populated almost exclusively by real human players.
		Meridian 59 is only as good as its population - and that population will assuredly prove an interesting one.
	www.gamespot.com /pc/rpg/meridian59/review.html?mode=gsreview (678 words)

	Multiplayer Online Games Directory / News / Near Death Studios Purchases Meridian 59 - Find Multiplayer Games Here
		Former Meridian 59 directors, lead programmers, and inventors of Meridian 59, Andrew and Christopher Kirmse are happy that Near Death Studios is the new owner of Meridian 59.
		Meridian 59 is considered by many to be the first of the new generation of massively multiplayer online only role-playing games.
		Meridian 59 began as a side project by Andrew and Christopher Kirmse in their parents’ basement in 1994.
	www.mpogd.com /news?ID=155 (737 words)

	GameRifts.com - Travelling the Rifts in Online Gaming.
		Meridian 59 has had many years to add a lot of depth to the game.
		Meridian 59 does not have these problems because it is a classic game that has been expanded and cared for, specially in the last two years as NDS has taken care of it.
		Meridian 59 has had an in-game mail system, a detailed guild interface, guild housing, guild insignias, and original setting with deep backstory, and many other "new" aspects when it launched in 1996!
	www.gamerifts.com /sections/interviews/meridian59.shtml (1568 words)

	GameSpy.com - Gaming's Homepage
		Meridian 59 also marks the introduction of the term "massively multiplayer." In 1996, as Hawkins tried to explain his game to the press, he used terms like "massively multiplayer" and "3D persistent world" quite liberally.
		Meridian 59 was the first effort at some technologies, and one of the last significant uses of others.
		Meridian 59 capped at only 250, which is actually the limit for text-based MUDs as well.
	archive.gamespy.com /amdmmog/week1/index2.shtml (734 words)

	RPG Vault: Meridian 59 Q&A with Brian Green at Warcry
		Meridian 59 offers a level of PvP combat you can't find in other games because many games are not including PvP as an option.
		While Meridian 59 isn't a constant killing field, it does offer the ability to fight other people anywhere at any time, an option that is rare in other games; this is what some people really want in their online gaming experience.
		Meridian 59 also includes consequences for people that engage in non-consensual PvP as well as ways for players to engage in consensual PvP.
	rpgvault.ign.com /articles/455/455551p1.html (371 words)

	GamerGod - Interview Near Death Studios' Mike Emmons by jkdove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		We consider Meridian 59 to be the first 3D graphical MMORPG commercially available at retail, and that it paved the way for that particular business model.
		These also make Meridian 59 more of a niche game, and as such, it may be a bit dangerous for larger companies to venture into same design plan.
		This is one of the drawing points of Meridian 59; of course, the ten years of balancing that have been put into the game.
	www.gamergod.com /article.php?article_id=3246&category_id=39 (2154 words)

	Meridian 59 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The original inspiration for Meridian 59 was the game Scepter of Goth, which was run by a company called InterPlay in Virginia in the mid-1980s.
		Though Meridian had many predecessors, such as Scepter of Goth, Legends of Kesmai, Neverwinter Nights, and Internet MUDs, it was the first Internet game from a major publisher, the first time that a massively multiplayer RPG was considered a "real" game and covered in the major game magazines.
		Meridian brought many of the phenomena well-known to MUD players, such as real-life friendships and even marriages, from Unix to the PC.
	ieatcode.com /meridian (3519 words)

	Article on Meridian 59 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Getting Meridian 59 to ship and supporting it selflessly for 2 years in the role of lead designer is probably the greatest and most satisfying achievement of my life.
		Meridian had a great ride for something that started in a garage and had the muscle of EA, Sony and Microsoft waiting to crush it like a grape.
		Meridian 59 has a political system which gives bonuses to you based on what faction you are in and how powerful it is.
	sumarius.net /m59_article.html (3562 words)

	The Wargamer - Convention Coverage: Gen Con '03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Meridian 59 continues to use the an engine similar to id Software's proprietary DOOM engine The look of the game retains that old DOOM style - a mass of pixilating pleasure that triggered a nostalgic trip back to my college days when I played DOOM into the wee hours of the morning.
		Changing engines might be a while since the company readily admits that the Meridian 59 project as a whole is a labor of love done for Platonic reasons.
		This might slow the company's efforts to translate the game, but given the amount of exuberance the team has for keeping the spirit of Meridian 59 alive, the wait might be well worth it in the coming years when 90s software titles find themselves riding the wake of an ever-advancing Retro wave.
	www.wargamer.com /articles/gencon03/meridian_59.asp (420 words)

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		59 to ship and supporting it selflessly for 2 years in the role of lead designer is probably the greatest and most satisfying achievement of my life.
		Meridian’ for the game that we are working on, based primarily on two reasons: (1) we’re sick of arguing about it and (2) everything else we came up with was already taken or trademarked.
		59 has a political system which gives bonuses to you based on what faction you are in and how powerful it is. The duke is too powerful, and so we (accidentally) overcompensate by making the princess too powerful.
	www.thecan.org /in/m59.html (3526 words)

	Lyra Studios - News
		Meridian 59 and Underlight, two veteran Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games (MMORPGs), are the first to join Skotos as Associate Games.
		Meridian 59 and Underlight, the first two games offered as Associates to the Skotos community, are classics in the MMORPG genre--each a graphic roleplaying game with a focus on socialization.
		Meridian 59 was one of the first MMORPGs on the market, originally offered by 3D0 and now published by Near Death Studios.
	www.lyrastudios.com /page.php?page=news&id=16 (586 words)

	Stratics Central - Meridian 59 Resurrection Interview with Brian "Psychochild" Green
		The background story is that the land of Meridian 59 was a settlement from the great Kingdom of the Nexus.
		Meridian 59's world is such that it's hard to escape completely from enemies.
		Another storyline involved the rebirth of the gods of Meridian who sacrificed themselves to give their power (that is, spells) to the inhabitants of the land.
	www.stratics.com /content/interviews/m59/interviews/resurrection.php (2890 words)

	Meridian 59 Official Website - Terms of Service
		NDS is not responsible for any information that You choose to communicate to other members or users of Meridian 59, or for the actions of others concerning that information which You have disclosed.
		You acknowledge and agree that the Meridian 59 Online Game, and any necessary software to access it or used in connection with it, contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other state and federal laws, including but not limited to trademark, copyright, and patent law.
		You agree not to attempt or to access the NDS servers and/or the Meridian 59 Online Game, by any other means other than through the interface that is provided by NDS expressly for the purpose of accessing Meridian 59.
	billing.neardeathstudios.com /M59-ToS-01.shtml (3270 words)

	AVault \| PC \| Meridian 59 Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Newcomers to Meridian will arrive in a town outside the world of Meridian, which is a great place to learn more about movement and combat.
		When you die in Meridian, you lose all of your possesions and are forced to "start over." Your character will have lost health, mana, and vitality points.
		They say actions speak louder than words, and Meridian 59 allows for gestures like pointing and waving as well as the ability to express feelings by setting the "mood" of your character (i.e., sad, happy, wry).
	www.avault.com /reviews/review_temp.asp?game=merid (1087 words)

	The 3DO Company Upgrades Meridian 59 Liberation(TM)
		Meridian 59 Liberation features a revamped combat engine that focuses on the dynamics of skills, spells, and the way combat develops.
		Many of the spells in the game have also been improved and, in conjunction with the enhancements to the combat engine, the game dynamics of Meridian 59 Liberation offer a far more satisfying adventuring experience for groups of players working together.
		More than a game, Meridian 59 is a constantly changing world where players chart their own destiny.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-07-1999/0000976763&EDATE= (591 words)

	GamersInfo.net - Interviews - Interview - Meridian 59 Evolution
		Meridian 59 involves a lot of movement, strafing around your enemy, choosing the correct spells to attack them with, and the right weapon to use against their armor.
		Meridian 59E: Using the Fey, as an example, the node that the players venture after in this area requires all the areas in the Vale to be either completely dark (by killing all the good fey) or completely light (by killing all the evil fey).
		Meridian 59E: The great thing about Meridian 59 is that is has a smaller community compared to most other online RPGs.
	www.gamersinfo.net /index.php?art/id:221 (1985 words)

	Voodoo Extreme: Meridian 59 Q&A
		Question: Meridian 59 was launched back in 1996, making it one of the granddaddies of the online gaming industry.
		Brian: Meridian 59 launched a while before most other games on the market were launched; it was launched a full year before UO, which was the next game to hit the market.
		As much as we'd love to live in an ideal world where people enjoy a game based on gameplay instead of on graphics, the reality is that people will often not even try a game with graphics that are significantly behind the times.
	ve3d.ign.com /articles/429/429804p1.html (262 words)

	Multiplayer Online Games Directory / News / Meridian 59: Evolution Goes Live - Find Multiplayer Games Here
		Meridian 59 is a player vs. player (PvP) focused game, allowing players to fight between themselves.
		As a special bonus, on Saturday, November 13th the developers of Meridian 59 will be on the trial server running special events for people who have signed up for the trial.
		Meridian 59 was originally released by The 3DO Company in 1996.
	www.mpogd.com /news?ID=1375 (547 words)

	Meridian 59 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Your and thousands of other Internet Explorers are about to join forces in the World of Meridian 59.
		Meridian 59 transports you to an ancient land full of wonder, treasure and danger.
		This is not your typical PC product Meridian 59 is only played on the Internet.
	www.mwcdrom.com /catalog/games/2121.htm (215 words)

	Gaming Worlds Section 2
		Meridian 59 comes on a CD-ROM that is sold in many computer stores or can be ordered from 3DO or its retailers for about $40.
		Meridian 59 has a 30 day free trial and then a monthly charge of about $11 for unlimited play.
		The great Meridian 59 bible can be found at: http://www.wolsi.com/~orbs/meridian/ and the registry of guilds is at: http://www.wolsi.com/~orbs/meridian/guilds.htm.
	www.digitalspace.com /AVATARS/book/fullbook/chcg/chcg2.htm (975 words)

	Dragon*Con Biography: [Brian Green]
		Brian was transferred off of Meridian 59, so he left to work at a dot-com on a product called "The Palace".
		In May of 2002 Meridian 59 was re-launched by Near Death Studios, much to the delight of the game's biggest fans.
		Brian is currently working to fix and improve Meridian 59 for its fans as well as taking care of much of the business details for Near Death Studios, Inc. He is quite familiar with the day-to-day struggles of being an independent game developer.
	www.dragoncon.org /people/greenb.html (403 words)

	Meridian - Meridian Energy Systems, inc.
		Meridian: The Semi-Annual from the University of Virginia.
		Meridian is a vibrant and caring community that is a premier place to live, work, and raise a family.
		And it was the Prime Meridian, which was the first to be discussed.
	meridian.directindexes.com (346 words)

	MMORPG.COM - Meridian 59 : Evolution : News - Current and Archived News Feeds
		The makers of Meridian 59, Near Death Studios, has announced that as a celebration of their 10 year anniversary, they will be offering a trial of the game free of charge.
		Meridian 59 went live (alpha) on December 15th, 1995 and we are taking this time to allow anyone who wishes, to log into a special server and check out the game free of charge.
		This is including our latest graphics update in which we've taken the Meridian 59 that was released commercially in 1996 and made it DirectX compatible.
	www.mmorpg.com /gamelist.cfm/loadNews/4287 (252 words)

	MMORPG.COM - Meridian 59 : Evolution : Overview - Information About The Game
		Meridian 59 does not have the boring "treadmill" people find distasteful in other games.
		Meridian 59 has excellent support for communication which creates a strong community which in turn creates a good playing environment.
		Even without your guardian angel, PvP combat in Meridian 59 is balanced and precise since the game has been around for years and the gameplay has been balanced out over time.
	www.mmorpg.com /gamelist.cfm/setView/overview/gameID/55 (950 words)

	Meridian 59 Tips
		Meridian 59 is the best over-the-internet RPG out there.
		This is a basic page with information that any newbie to Meridian 59 could use. Experienced players could use some of this information too. In other words, this is a page for everyone that is playing the game.
		In the June issue of Computer and NET Player, Meridian 59 got an overall 7 and that is not that bad!
	www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/Arcade/5230 (268 words)

	Meridian 59 - October 2004
		I can't begin to describe how exciting Meridian PvP is. It simply happens so fast, and everything depends on the ability of the player to NOT SCREW UP because, if you do, any one small mistake could cost you the fight.
		On Meridian 59, I drive three characters; of those three, only one is public.
		I say caster-type because Meridian doesn't have "classes." Rather, we have schools, and you can utilize these schools (as long as you meet the basic requirements) to your advantage to make the character-type you want.
	blogs.gamersinfo.net /index.php/m59/2004/10 (3057 words)

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