10 Facts About Netrek

Netrek is an Internet game for up to 16 players, written almost entirely in cross-platform open-source software.

Xtrek and Netrek are the oldest games of what is called the MOBA genre.

Netrek is essentially a greatly expanded version of Empire, a multi-user space combat game that ran on the PLATO.

Netrek divided the players into one of four teams, loosely based on the Star Trek universe; the Federation, Romulans, Klingons, and Orions .

Netrek is largely derived from Empire, written for the PLATO mainframe system beginning in 1973.

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In spring 1991, the first inter-scholastic game was played between UCB and CMU, and in January 1992, the "International Netrek League" was formed, so that teams could form and compete with one another .

Netrek was very popular in the Carnegie Mellon computer clusters for a number of years in the early 1990s.

Netrek play peaked in the middle to late 1990s, with several leagues existing for different forms of the game as well as for different regions, and several pickup games always active, 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

In 2019, an open source Netrek client was implemented in the Swift programming language and made available in the MacOS App Store.

Netrek pioneered the use of many technologies and design features that later found their way into commercial network games, including:.