First commercial 3D Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
- Who
- Meridian 59
- When
- 1996
The earliest commercial 3D MMORPG was Meridian 59, which was published by 3DO in 1996. A sword and sorcery, monster-battling adventure, Meridian 59 was shut down by 3DO in August 2000 but was re-released by Near Death Studios Inc. in 2002, who eventually added a new graphics rendering engine in October 2004.