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From: VAF@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU (Vince Fuller)
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Subject: Re: Interactive game playing over an internet network
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Date: 5 Feb 89 23:07:24 GMT
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The two most memorable games from the Xerox PUP days were MazeWar (which Vint
Cerf described) and AltoTrek, in which you controlled a ship on one of three
teams and went around blasting members of the other teams and planting your
bases around various planets (which could later be used for purposes such as
spying and self-distruction, if other players approached). Xtrek is a game
similar to AltoTrek which is implemented using the X protocol (which is layered
over TCP/IP) and I believe an almost identical copy of MazeWar has also been
implemented using X. I believe there are also others of this sort: Xtank and
Xconq (multi-player Empire), though I haven't seen them myself.

	--Vince
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