Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A text-based online game in which players enter instructions on a command line to jointly engage in role-playing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computer-games, games
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noun
An early graphical massively multiplayer online game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: computer-games, games
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History
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.
