Talk:Oubliette (disambiguation)

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Untitled[edit]

On the page "Avatar (computer game)", under the section "History of Avatar", it says:

Oubliette, was written by Jim Schwaiger, and published on the PLATO system in 1977. It was so difficult that one could not play it alone: in order for players to survive, they had to run in groups. Following it, also on PLATO, was a game called Moria written in 1977, copyright 1978. Avatar was written in 1979 by several students in an attempt to out-do Oubliette.[1]

It's also mentioned on the page for "MUD" (multi-user dungeon), where it appears it counts as the first of something, maybe first multi-user computer role playing game?

more info on the MUD[edit]

see http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20070223b/barton_01.shtml (near the bottom, by the screenshot) It looks like the previous entry was also correct, in that the original MUD was ported to MS-DOS and C-64 as a single-player, multi-character RPG in 1983. 98.201.24.136 (talk) 20:59, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ice formation[edit]

Moved this from main article until a citation can be found. RainmanCT (talk) 12:23, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

An Oubliette (ice formation), an ice formation over lakes or other large bodies of water. As ice crystals form, and air is introduced in the movement of the tides, tunnels form under the ice.^{[citation needed]}

Good idea. A Google search didn't find any information on this. Cyclopaedic (talk) 17:50, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Remove computer game?[edit]

Despite the efforts of several people to include this item in the dab, I suggest that the item for the computer game be removed for the following reasons:

It hasn't been considered sufficiently noteworthy to inspire anyone to create an article for it
Neither of the linked articles, role-playing video games and PLATO (computer system), make any mention of it, appearing to corroborate its non-noteworthiness.

Dab pages are meant to help readers to differentiate between similarly named or similarly themed articles. Including the game here simply does not seem to fit this purpose at all, and may actually cause additional confusion by directing readers to apparently irrelevant articles. 12.233.147.42 (talk) 21:59, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]