GameMaster

GameMaster was a subscription computer gaming service based in Evanston, Illinois, that offered access via dial-up connection to a variety of games including Eamon, as well as other electronic resources. Founder Harlow Stevens, Jr., a military history buff and avid gamesman, developed GameMaster with his father Harlow Stevens, Sr., and friends Robert Kniskern and Richard Wojkovick. The service went online in 1981 in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and operated until roughly 1986. Electronic Games reported in late 1982 that the service had about 250 subscribers.

Users dialing into the service would arrive in the lobby of GameMaster Mansion, a virtual house divided into roughly 40 rooms across six floors, each room dedicated to a particular game or resource. These included games in a variety of genres (board, card, sports, arcade, action, strategic, fantasy, combat, and educational), plus recipes, online conferencing, electronic mail, program exchanges and more. The February 1984 issue of Computer Gaming World noted, "The popular game of Eamon, with fifteen modules donated by author Donald Brown, is played by visitors to the Time Room," which was located on the mansion's lower level.

GameMaster was located at 1723 Howard Street in Evanston, Illinois.

External links

• "Dial-a-Game", Electronic Games, November 1982.