# Can you name this early MMORPG game?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [July 30, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-early-mmorpg-game/694454 "2014-07-30T23:12:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-early-mmorpg-game/694454/1 "2014-07-30T23:12:53Z")

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It was the late '80s, early '90s. It was designed for kids but filled with adults. You had a pet and the pet fought in arenas and lived in houses you built. But the big deal were the stores you could build and sold – food for you pets, I think. There were mini-games where you earned. . . stuff to get. . . things.

Man, I was a grown woman playing this game for ever but now I can’t even remember the name.

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**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-early-mmorpg-game/694454/2 "2014-07-31T00:01:47Z")

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Late 80s? That would pretty much mean CompuServe, Prodigy, GEnie, or possibly a BBS game, any idea which?

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-early-mmorpg-game/694454/3 "2014-07-31T00:04:07Z")

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Now that I think about it, it wasn’t late '80s at all. My kids were already in school so it had to have been mid to late '90s.

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**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-early-mmorpg-game/694454/4 "2014-07-31T00:06:23Z")

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You’re thinking of Neopets, which is still around.

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-early-mmorpg-game/694454/5 "2014-07-31T00:32:49Z")

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> [@AClockworkMelon](#):
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> You’re thinking of Neopets, which is still around.

Yes. Yes I am! Thanks.