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C64

Game

Habitat

Released: Jan 1, 1987

Genres:

Open World Platform Role-playing (RPG) Sandbox

Themes:

Fantasy Science fiction

Perspectives:

Third person

Game Modes:

Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) Multiplayer

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Habitat is a pioneering massive multiplayer online game (MMO) developed by Lucasfilm Games that laid the foundation for modern MMORPGs. Released as a beta test on Quantum Link's online service, it allowed up to 500 players to simultaneously explore a vast, open-ended virtual world. Despite lacking traditional RPG elements like leveling or classes, Habitat broke new ground by offering a persistent, shared environment where players could interact through customizable avatars in a 2D, third-person perspective. The game's emphasis on social interaction and player-driven content was revolutionary for its time. Players could engage in a wide range of activities, from simple communication and object manipulation to complex social endeavors like marriage, commerce, and even founding religions or guilds. The game world, comprised of thousands of diverse regions, encouraged exploration and discovery. Habitat's innovative features, including an in-game economy, player-run businesses, and global quests organized by the developers themselves, showcased the potential of virtual worlds as social platforms. This libertarian approach to gameplay, where players were limited only by the game's code, set a precedent for user-generated content and emergent gameplay in online worlds, influencing the development of future MMORPGs and virtual communities.

About Habitat

Habitat is a Open World, Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Sandbox game released in 1987 developed by Lucasfilm Games that offers Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Multiplayer gameplay from a third person perspective playable on Commodore C64/128/MAX with 0 user ratings averaging 0/100. The game explores themes like Fantasy, Science fiction. If you enjoy Habitat, you might also like similar games in our database of 45,000+ titles.

Basic Info

Release Date: January 1, 1987

IGDB ID: 192111

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Additional Information

Release Date: January 1, 1987

IGDB ID: 192111

Платформы 1

C64

Genres 4

Open World Platform Role-playing (RPG) Sandbox

Themes 2

Fantasy Science fiction

Player Perspectives 1

Third person

Game Modes 2

Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) Multiplayer

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Developers

Lucasfilm Games

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Publishers

Lucasfilm Games

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Keywords

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