HeroMUD

From Mudpedia

HeroMUD was a text adventure game set on the streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan. It ran on servers at the University of Michigan engineering school and was available by dialup modem from the Merit computer network until it was shut down.

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• Biography of Martin Bertram at SciFi-Fantasy-Info

Martin Bertram first discovered his love for writing in elementary school when he wrote a parody of Star Trek for a fifth grade assignment. He continued to write stories and then in 1991 he began writing content for several popular text-based online games called MUDs, the predecessor to MMORPGs. Some of the MUDs he was a part of include Hero MUD (based on the UMich campus at Ann Arbor, Michigan, Nightmare_LPMud (which was called Orlith MUD at the time), VieMUD, Realms of Imagination, and Quarantine MUD.

• Quests/Role Playing, shugotenchi, Livejournal

For sheer humor value and frustration, the "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service" quest on HeroMUD.

It was significantly before your time. The idea was to get refused service at a convenience store, and you had to somehow get "no shirt" and "no shoes" from NPCs around town, before you'd get the quest object "no service." Especially for the "no shirt" segment, the puns were just physically painful.