Game Classification
Français
EnglishMeridian 59 Archetype Interactive Corp., Studio 3DO (U.S.A.), 1996
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Market
This title is used by the following domains:- Entertainment
Audience
This title targets the following audience:Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
General Public
Gameplay
The gameplay of this title is Game-based(designed with stated goals)
The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
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Meridian 59 was the first 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Players create characters, and then advance in power by defeating monsters, completing quests, and collecting treasure.
The alpha test of Meridian went online on December 15, 1995. It was commercially released on September 27, 1996. Several free, downloadable updates were released during the next 18 months: Vale of Sorrow, Revelation, Renaissance, Dark Auspices. The original servers were shut down in late 2000, however the game continues to run (as of May 2001) in Germany and Russia. Many later games such as Ultima Online, Asheron's Call, and especially Everquest borrow heavily from Meridian 59.
Meridian has a Doom-style first-person graphics engine, with a software rasterizer. The servers run on Windows NT but are not publicly available. [source:mobygames]
Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : PC (Windows)
The alpha test of Meridian went online on December 15, 1995. It was commercially released on September 27, 1996. Several free, downloadable updates were released during the next 18 months: Vale of Sorrow, Revelation, Renaissance, Dark Auspices. The original servers were shut down in late 2000, however the game continues to run (as of May 2001) in Germany and Russia. Many later games such as Ultima Online, Asheron's Call, and especially Everquest borrow heavily from Meridian 59.
Meridian has a Doom-style first-person graphics engine, with a software rasterizer. The servers run on Windows NT but are not publicly available. [source:mobygames]
Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : PC (Windows)