"multi-user dungeon" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-multi-user dungeon.wav Forms: multi-user dungeons [plural]
Etymology: From the title of the genre-defining 1978 video game Multi-User Dungeon, which was itself named to suggest a "multi-user" game that was otherwise similar to Dungeon, an unauthorized DEC-10 port of Zork. The title was not intended to imply a dungeon setting or any association with Dungeons & Dragons. Etymology templates: {{nowrap|"multi-user"}} "multi-user" Head templates: {{en-noun}} multi-user dungeon (plural multi-user dungeons)
  1. (computer games) A text-based online game in which players enter instructions on a command line to jointly engage in role-playing.
    Sense id: en-multi-user_dungeon-en-noun-kTNNHfk7 Categories (other): Video games, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Topics: computer-games, games
  2. (dated, computer games) An early graphical massively multiplayer online game. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-multi-user_dungeon-en-noun-KXH5uES5 Categories (other): Video games, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Video game genres Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 43 57 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 42 58 Disambiguation of Video game genres: 38 62 Topics: computer-games, games
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: MUD

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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