However, over the past month there has been a flurry of excitement and multiple stories reported by Massively OP regarding City of Heroes emulated servers, starting with this article on April 15.

There has been a server that you could login to and make a character and run around the starter zone but there were no quests or anything else to do, so I didn’t bother with it or writing about it. I loved this game when it released in April 2004 and played it heaps, but it was shut down in November 2012, and since that day there hasn’t been a proper emulator released to the public for me to have a play on for this series of articles.

One game that hasn’t been mentioned yet is City of Heroes. I will be writing an ‘honorable mentions’ article when I finish the MMO’s released in 2007, as this will have covered the first decade of MMORPG’s. Games such as Meridian 59, Lineage I & II, Asheron’s Call 2 and Shadowbane aren’t in the list.

If you’re as big a fan of MMORPG’s as I am then you’ll also notice, there’s a few missing from the list that should probably be up there. You can see above the spread of years that each game was released from what I’ve covered so far. When I started planning this MMORPG Memory Lane series, I wrote down every MMORPG that I have played and the dates they were released.

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