Dragon's Gate was an interactive, real time, text-based multi user online fantasy role-playing game, sometimes referred to as a MUD. It was one of the longest running pay-for-play online games in the world, it opened to the public in the spring of 1991 on GEnie. In the summer of 1996 the game was moved to AOL. Later the game was moved again to Mythic Realms, and most recently as an independent server.
At its creation, the core of Dragon's Gate wa...
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Dragon's Gate was an interactive, real time, text-based multi user online fantasy role-playing game, sometimes referred to as a MUD. It was one of the longest running pay-for-play online games in the world, it opened to the public in the spring of 1991 on GEnie. In the summer of 1996 the game was moved to AOL. Later the game was moved again to Mythic Realms, and most recently as an independent server.
At its creation, the core of Dragon's Gate was based on the AUSI-entitled game Aradath, which was designed in 1985 by Mark Jacobs. It was programmed by Darrin Hyrup, who had joined AUSI from Simutronics where he had been lead programmer on Orb Wars and taken up by AOL as an online product.
Jacobs, along with partner Rob Denton, later formed a company in 1995 called Interworld Productions, which in 1997 was re-named as Mythic Entertainment. Mythic Entertainment is currently best known for the MMORPG Warhammer Online. In June 20, 2006 Mythic Entertainment was purchased by Electronic Arts....
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