Welcome to Avatar!

These pages are here for the players of the 1984, Avatar 95, and Man 60 versions of Avatar. The data is incomplete.

Avatar is an online multiplayer real-time RPG. It has been around in various forms since the late 1970s. It can be played online on the NovaNET system (formerly PLATO at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). FREE access is available during system offpeak hours (currently 10pm - 6am central time, Monday through Friday, and all day Saturday and Sunday).

Get portal software for the PC here

NOTE: If there's any confusion, in the Communications Setup you should be connecting to npt.nn.com on port 722.

Some system terms and definitions.

Avatar etiquette.

1984 Avatar (K version)

Avatar 95 (N version)

Man 60 (Original version)

Copyright © 1979-85, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
Conceived by Bruce Maggs, Andrew Shapira, and Dave Sides.
Later work also by Chris Alix, Mark Eastom, John Hegarty, Greg Janusz, Tom Kirchman, Kevin Maxson, and Felix Ortony.

Screen captures from lesson navathelp used by permission.