• Island of Kesmai was an early commercial online game in the multi-user dungeon (MUD) genre, innovative in its use of roguelike pseudo-graphics. It is considered...
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  • GEnie online service, one of the first graphical MMOGs, launched in 1987. They also developed an ASCII-based MUD, Island of Kesmai, and empire building game...
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    Island of Kesmai. It introduced the GIF format for pictures and a system for exchanging GIF files. In 1994, it was described as "the oldest of the Big Three...
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  • Kashmir, the name used by Pakistan for the portion of Kashmir under Indian authority Island of Kesmai, an early online game IOK Media, a South Korean media...
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  • pioneer. He is a co-founder (with his University of Virginia classmate Kelton Flinn) of the game company Kesmai, which they founded in 1981. In 2011, Taylor...
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    Kelton Flinn (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    is a co-founder (with his University of Virginia classmate John Taylor) of the seminal online game company Kesmai, which they began in 1982. His best known...
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  • graphics. They founded the Kesmai company in 1982 and in 1985 an enhanced version of Dungeons of Kesmai, Island of Kesmai, was launched on CompuServe...
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  • In 1984, CompuServe debuted Islands of Kesmai, the first commercial multiplayer online role playing game. Islands of Kesmai used scrolling text (ASCII...
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  • This is a chronological list of notable MUDs with summary information....
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  • gaming service founded by Kesmai corporation in November 1997. It offered several online video games at a flat monthly fee of $10 per month, a relatively...
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  • This is a list of video game publisher companies. A video game publisher may specialize in only publishing games for developers, or may either have in-house...
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  • (1974) and MUD1 (1978). 1985 saw the release of a roguelike (pseudo-graphical) MUD called Island of Kesmai on CompuServe and Lucasfilm's graphical MUD...
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  • This is a selected list of roguelike video games. Roguelike games are those that incorporate elements of role-playing games with procedural generation...
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  • "massive" requires qualification when discussing mid-1980s mainframes) was Island of Kesmai designed by Kelton Flinn and John Taylor. This roguelike game became...
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  • This is a list of notable video game companies that have made games for either computers (like PC or Mac), video game consoles, handheld or mobile devices...
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  • founders of Kesmai and creators of Island of Kesmai and Air Warrior. Additionally, the MMORPG EverQuest was inducted into the GDC Online Awards Hall of Fame...
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  • research libraries and databases, online forums, and games including Island of Kesmai and MUD II. NVN was hoping to attract customers by offering Internet...
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  • Special Play-By-Mail Section: Island Take Over". Shadis. No. 16. pp. 94–95. McLain, Bob (March 1997). "Soapbox: A Personal View of PBM". Games Without Frontiers...
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    ARPANet in 1980. Commercial games followed in the next decade, with Islands of Kesmai, the first commercial online role-playing game, debuting in 1984,...
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  • MegaWars III (category Kesmai games)
    multiplayer empire building game written by Kesmai and run continuously on CompuServe between 1984 and 1999. It was one of CompuServe's most popular games throughout...
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  • senior editor of IGDA Online Games White Papers Kelton Flinn: designer of Air Warrior and many other pioneering online games, co-founder of Kesmai Richard Garriott...
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  • Air Warrior III (category Kesmai games)
    Warrior III, known as Air Warrior 3 in Europe, is a video game developed by Kesmai Studios and published by Interactive Magic and Midas Interactive Entertainment...
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  • This is a chronological list of games based on Toho's Godzilla franchise . Since the early 1980s, a variety of video games have been developed and released...
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    Pasadena, California; acquired in July 2018, shut down in January 2023. Kesmai in Charlottesville, Virginia; the studio was acquired in 1999 and closed...
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  • This is a list of video games adapted from films. List of video games based on comics List of video games based on cartoons List of video games based on...
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  • first three months of 1998. The awards were arranged by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) and were held on the first day of E3 1998 at the...
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    This is a list of the oldest extant registered generic top-level domains used in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Until late February 1986, Domain...
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    Fujitsu brand, succeeding the FM-7 series. The following list contains all of the known games released commercially for the FM Towns platform. Featuring...
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  • دلیجانی) Samad Behrangi, writer (صمد بهرنگی) Seyed Ali Salehi, poet Sems Kesmai, poet (شمس کسمایی‎ ) Shahrnush Parsipur, novelist (شهرنوش پارسی‌پور) Shams...
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  • دلیجانی) Samad Behrangi, writer (صمد بهرنگی) Seyed Ali Salehi, poet Sems Kesmai, poet (شمس کسمایی‎) Shahrnush Parsipur, novelist (شهرنوش پارسی‌پور) Shams...
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