A paper is published on "Teaching Mathematics with Games" on PLATO. This is the only formal reference I can find to PLATO and games. PLATO eventually banned games .
Bridge on PLATO.
"I was the main author of the bridge game (called Contract ). Martin Wolff wrote the bidding logic, and I did pretty much everything else. Karen Walker says 'PLATO's primitive bidding was random after the first round of the auction, and its defense and declarer play defied logic ' Well, it was indeed a pretty pathetic player, I have to admit. However, the bidding was deterministic, not random. It may have *seemed* random, though "
” David Woolley
John Taylor (co-founder of Kesmai Corporation “ JMM) reports that he was writing and playing multiplayer games at the University of Virginia in this year.
