Public group for all things Shadows of Yserbius. Discussion, and more. This is OLD school gaming here. Only a few will remember and fewer will actually have played.
Only the very fortunate and obviously older gamers will remember this gem. The Shadow of Yserbius and it's sequels.
From Wikipedia
The Shadow of Yserbius, originally published by Sierra On-Line and developed by Joe Ybarra of Ybarra Productions, was the first of three graphical MUDs for the online community. The Shadow of Yserbius and its successors remained online until 1996, when America Online purchased the rights from AT&T for an undisclosed price (rumored to be $40 million). AOL soon abandoned The Shadow of Yserbius, which was a competitor to its existing online RPG Neverwinter Nights.[citation needed]
In late 2007, the ImagiNation Revival Project succeeded in resurrecting the long-dormant ImagiNation Network by using the original client software coupled with DOSBox. The Shadow of Yserbius was again available for online play with all features, graphics, sounds, and such fully intact and functional. Macros were fully supported and compatibility with old character and map files was enabled for TSN/INN versions 2.4 and higher. In early 2016, the server was shut down making online play not possible until recently.[citation needed]
The game was followed by two sequels: The Fates of Twinion (1993) and The Ruins of Cawdor (1995).
I was fortunate enough to enjoy this game back in the day. I do remember it was costly at times. I remember a subscription price of $125 dollars a month at one point. I am glad this is now a thing of the past lol. It is my great honor to to share this with you and leave a landing place for this game and fans of it to find as they surf the net. I have included a link for the Wiki page as well Yserbius.org the last bastion of all things Yserbius.
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