Plato Games (Oldest First)

DND

2008-04-01

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...

  • PLATO
  • Panther

    2008-04-01

    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.

  • PLATO
  • Spasim

    2008-08-08

    The first documented first-person mainframe computer game, a program written by Jim Bowery for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s PLATO network.

  • PLATO
  • Airfight

    2009-09-16

    A flight simulator for PLATO

  • PLATO
  • Empire

    2010-01-17

    Empire is famous for being the first networked multiplayer arena shooter.

  • PLATO
  • Moria

    2010-01-17

    In this very early vector-based RPG, fight through the dungeons of the wilderness with up to 10 other players.

  • PLATO
  • pedit5

    2010-01-17

    The first dungeon crawler role-playing game.

  • PLATO
  • Avatar

    2014-07-23

    Avatar was a role-playing game for the PLATO computer system, released in 1979.

  • PLATO
  • Freecell

    2020-07-06

    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...

  • PLATO
  • Mah-Jongg

    2022-04-27

    The earliest known mahjong solitaire computer game, developed for PLATO mainframe systems by Brodie Lockard (who later created the game Shanghai). It supports t...

  • PLATO