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Habitat (video game) - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Ambience, Bailiwick, Circle, Circuit, Compass, Context, Domain, Element, Entourage, Environment, Gestalt, Home, Locale, Locality, Milieu, Neighborhood |
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Habitat was an early and technologically influentual online role-playing game developed by Lucasfilm Games and made available as a beta test in 1987 by Quantum Link, an online service for the Commodore 64 computer and the corporate progenitor to America Online. A sized-down incarnation but with vastly improved graphics (avatars became equipped with facial expressions, for example) was launched for general release as Club Caribe on Quantum Link in January 1988.
LucasFilm licensed the technology underlying Habitat and Club Caribe to Fujitsu in 1989, and an elaborated and evolved version launched in Japan as Fujitsu Habitat in 1990. Fujitsu later bought the technology outright, and an even more sophisticated system was relaunched on CompuServe in 1995 as WorldsAway.
As CompuServe morphed into AOL's "value brand," Worldsaway was cancelled but has survived independently as Vzones.com.
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Example Usage of Habitat |
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jeannette82: I love hanging out at Habitat....good times! |
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_84: Oh @vixyoung http://twitpic.com/sp9cr he is very handsome! And in good company... just spied the Habitat lion. |
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brucecombs69: Take Action @change: Save the Polar Bear and its Arctic Habitat http://bit.ly/5IcSyN |
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