# VikingMUD

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vikingmud/613773>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [February 23, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vikingmud/613773 "2012-02-23T22:00:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vikingmud/613773/1 "2012-02-23T22:00:36Z")

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Was just thinking about playing VikingMUD in college back in 1994 or so. Figured there was a halfway decent chance that a Doper or two had played. I wasn’t super high level but was on quite a bit (more than I should have been, I’m sure!) as Nigel.

I loaded it up again through an emulator of some type back in 2000 or so, but haven’t tried since. Is it even still around? Yeah, I guess I could look for that answer myself.

We can make this a generic thread about MUDs/MUSHs in general as well to make it more useful. Or, we can see if Sicks has posted another thread that dies in an hour or two 😃

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vikingmud/613773/2 "2012-02-24T00:14:30Z")

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Moved Cafe Society --\> the Game Room.

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**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vikingmud/613773/3 "2012-02-24T02:08:31Z")

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Well duh.

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vikingmud/613773/4 "2012-02-24T02:21:28Z")

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I was a legendMud guy. I played in college, and every minute was deducted from my systems account. All it really did was make my online research with things like Archie was reallly hasty. 😉

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**Author:** ![DarkFire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@DarkFire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkFire)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vikingmud/613773/5 "2012-02-24T13:00:50Z")

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Played AvatarMud since 1994 and still do. Well sorta.  
I’m not an active player but an administrator.  
Recently I’ve been neglecting my “duties” there as RL simply takes first place.

I started playing back in college and skipped classes for it (no worries, I was going to flunk at some point anyways)  
In fact I skipped so much of my real classes that the folks at the computer lab thought I was a IT student and had to work in the lab 😉