The Island of Kesmai
Island of Kesmai is a discontinued multi-user dungeon (MUD) online game. An early entry in the genre, the game was innovative in its use of roguelike pseudo-graphics. It is considered a major forerunner of…
The Island of Kesmai is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Kesmai, released 15 December 1985 on DOS.
What The Island of Kesmai is
The Island of Kesmai is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Kesmai and released in 1985. It is available on DOS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Island of Kesmai is a discontinued multi-user dungeon (MUD) online game. An early entry in the genre, the game was innovative in its use of roguelike pseudo-graphics. It is considered a major forerunner of modern massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). It was still text-based, with just a tiny ASCII view similar to that in a roguelike, but that simplicity allowed it to offer a depth that it would take years for graphical RPGs to rival. Up to 100 players at once could explore a large open world, killing monsters, doing elaborate quests and hunting “world bosses” that required a powerful party to take down. Active from 1985 to 1995, Island of Kesmai received multiple…
What it launched against
The Island of Kesmai launched on 15 December 1985, within three weeks of Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter and Mercenary.
Released around the same time: Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter, Mercenary.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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