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Wrannek's Blogzone · @wrannekblog

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Videospiel-Zeitreise Teil 2

1990 betrat ich eine neue Welt. Im doppelten Sinne sozusagen. Ich war frischer PC Besitzer - und meine Amiga Freunde belächelten mich oftmals, weil es zu dem damaligen Zeitpunkt noch nicht so viele gescheite Games auf dem PC gab, bis auf Adventures, RPGs und Simulatoren und zusätzlich waren diese man

https://wrannek.de/videospiel-zeitreise-teil-2/

#Games #Videospiel-Zeitreise #90er #Action #GoG #OriginSystems #Retro #Science-Fiction #Simulation #Weltraum

#games #videospiel #90er #action #gog #originsystems #retro #science #simulation #weltraum

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The Video Game Library 📚 · @thevglibrary

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More #Ultima love added to #TheVideoGameLibrary thanks to James Crosby from the community!

Manuals, guides and interviews for Ultima I-IV, all packed into this 220-page Japan-only release! 📚

https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/the-genesis-of-ultima

#Ultima1 #Ultima2 #Ultima3 #Ultima4 #UltimaI #UltimaII #UltimaIII #UltimaIV #OriginSystems #MMO #MMORPG #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Gaming #PCGaming #PC #AppleII #Akalabeth #RetroGaming #DungeonCrawler #RPG #Gamer #Computing #RetroComputing

#RetroComputing #Computing #gamer #RPG #dungeoncrawler #retrogaming #Akalabeth #appleii #pc #pcgaming #Gaming #bookstodon #Books #book #mmorpg #mmo #originsystems #UltimaIV #ultimaiii #ultimaii #ultimai #ultima4 #ultima3 #ultima2 #ultima1 #thevideogamelibrary #ultima

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vga256 · @vga256

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some #obscure #UltimaOnline #RetroGaming #history

back in the late 90s, when #uo's playerbase was exploding, player-built houses were both a convenient secure location, and a social signal of personal wealth. when a new shard (server) opened, players would race around the map trying to find legal "placements" for house deeds... areas where you could erect a home that had flat land, and no rocks or trees in the way. open land was truly scarce, and competitions to place a house were fierce.

to combat the real estate rush, #OriginSystems implemented a "decay" mechanic that would make your house collapse/disappear if it was unoccupied for a few weeks. thousands of homes disappeared this way, to the extreme frustration of the player community.

in the late 90s, a player placed this tiny single room house on the Napa Valley shard, between the towns of Minoc and Vesper. it remained occupied for years, until it was converted into a "public house" without locks. the house still stands to this day, 24 years later. it is one of the longest standing player-built homes in the history of the #mmorpg.

read the entire story here, as told by /u/MacroPlanet:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ultimaonline/comments/1097crs/rediscovering_old_places_in_uo_napa_valley/

#obscure #ultimaonline #retrogaming #history #uo #originsystems #mmorpg

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