{"id":889,"date":"2012-02-20T15:05:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T20:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2013-12-30T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T18:27:09","slug":"online-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"Online games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first real computer game I played was &#8216;Adventure&#8217; on a PDP-11 in 1982. Not counting Atari, Pong or anything I hand-type into a Texas Instruments TI-99\/4A. Adventure of course later became Zork. And for the record probably my favorite game is NeverWinter Nights 2. But, the first real online game (MMORPG) I played was Origin&#8217;s Ultima Online beginning during the beta in 1997. Here&#8217;s a link to a bunch of screenshots from the guild I was in with some online friends. Funny stuff. Click the screenshot below to link to a site one of the guildmembers built. Classic. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"7od\" href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/7od\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-891\" title=\"gay1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/gay1.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shortly thereafter my main game was Star Wars Galaxies. Here are some screenshots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/screenShot0136.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-900\" title=\"screenShot0136\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/screenShot0136.jpg\" width=\"174\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/screenShot0138.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-902\" title=\"screenShot0138\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/screenShot0138.jpg\" width=\"174\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/screenShot0139.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-903\" title=\"screenShot0139\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/screenShot0139.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/screenShot0026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-904\" title=\"screenShot0026\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/screenShot0026.jpg\" width=\"176\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/screenShot0043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-905\" title=\"screenShot0043\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/screenShot0043.jpg\" width=\"177\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did play EQ and EQ II a bit, and WoW as well, but never got &#8216;hooked&#8217; on those. In 2007 turbine beta&#8217;d Lord of the Rings Online, which has been my main game since that time. It has quite a mature player base, which is one of the main reasons I like it so much. Click the screenshot below to go to my main set of screenshots.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"LOTRO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/lotro-screen-caps\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-907\" title=\"ScreenShot00010_resize\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ScreenShot00010_resize.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first real computer game I played was &#8216;Adventure&#8217; on a PDP-11 in 1982. Not counting Atari, Pong or anything I hand-type into a Texas Instruments TI-99\/4A. Adventure of course later became Zork. And for the record probably my favorite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=889\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lord-of-the-rings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Ogee-el","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}