First sci-fi MMORPG
- Who
- Phantasy Star Online (SEGA, 2000)
- What
- First
- When
- 01 January 0001
The first sci-fi MMORPG was SEGA’s Phantasy Star Online, released in Japan for the SEGA Dreamcast on 21 November 2000. Prior to this release, MMOs had been set exclusively in fantasy realms, from Neverwinter Nights (1991), the first graphical MMO, through to Meridian 59 (1996), the first MMO to feature first-person 3D graphics. Phantasy Star Online was soon followed by two other sci-fi MMOs, Anarchy Online in June 2001 and DarkSpace in December 2001.
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