TALE - browser-based multiplayer online role-playing game

Link: Official Game Site
Start: November 1999

Tale - the first multiplayer browser-based online game in the world: huge RPG-world, based on literary text; great opportunities for character development, roleplaying and socializing. Dive into the fantasy world and forget about everyday problems of the real world!

Events take place in an amazing fantasy world with medieval attributes, ruled by magic and power. Travel through the large territories of the fantasy world and fight thousands of enemies. Meet different creatures, brave knights, white wizards and evil magicians. Some of them will offer you interesting quests. Here you will learn how to cast spells, fight, hunt, swim underwater, fish, and lots, lots more ...

No need to install any software! You can begin to play just after registration in the game.

The Tale is the first browser-based massively multiplayer RPG online game in the world that runs in ordinary Internet browser! In 1999 the first version of massively multiplayer browser-based game was relesed. Game's link was publicated on the site of the chat "Buhtelka" and on the web-journal "Barn", that were very popular. In 2001 the project was closed for reconstruction until 2003. After fundamental upgrade in September 2003 the game was reopened with another name at the new Internet address.

Some news, dated 2000, are stored in the archives of the famous server archive.org.

Also you can view screenshots of the first version of the game:

In late 2008, Skazanie was opened. It's the sequel of the game "Tale".In November 2009 10 years of the first browser-based multiplayer online game Tale.