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Were there any codexers who could have actually played the PLATO RPGs back in the day?
The Codexer known as Tom Baker's Arse claims to have played The Dungeon (a.k.a. PEDIT5) on the PLATO network at the University of Illinois. +M

Thats right mate. Back in my down-to-my-ass hippie student days at U of I-UC (Urbana-Champaign). I was a novelty with the women on campus back in those days - an Irish grad student with long flowing red hair. Ah the memories of youth.

My advisor’s advisor (at Urbana Champaign) would play on PLATO. I think it was The Dungeon, he said one day they found he had named characters after his grad students and it was weird.

That is fucking hilarious, but not altogether surprising back in those days. The drugs were still flowing freely, both staff and students, and attitudes were a helluva lot different than today. Thanks for the memory and the laugh, mate.
 

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Different times, definitely. The culture of gaming was totally different, and attracted an entirely different set of people.
 

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