Loosely based on TSR's Dungeons and Dragons pen-and-paper RPG, DND borrowed from D&D many of the things that later became staples of video games, such as pl...
Panther is a tank-driving simulation, released on the PLATO in 1975. This game was one of the first instances of "team deathmatch" type gameplay.
The first documented first-person mainframe computer game, a program written by Jim Bowery for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s PLATO network.
In this very early vector-based RPG, fight through the dungeons of the wilderness with up to 10 other players.
Avatar was a role-playing game for the PLATO computer system, released in 1979.
A digital card solitaire game for PLATO computers based on the card game Baker's Game. It serves as a precursor to the more-familiar Microsoft game FreeCell, al...
The earliest known mahjong solitaire computer game, developed for PLATO mainframe systems by Brodie Lockard (who later created the game Shanghai). It supports t...