Very cool. This reminds me of Lucasfilm's Habitat, the world's first (?) graphical MMO, from the mid 1980s:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game)

which incidentally is being restored by booting the original servers found in a collector's basement:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/227045/rebooting_the_w...