MUDs

[Alelo]

Pre-MMOs, the MUD I spent the most time in was a little game called Aaezure Odyssey.

Post-MMOs, when I feel like jumping into some text based fun, I go to God Wars 2. It has an active combat system where a fight is manual commands only, no auto attack so to speak. If you wanted to strike with your right hand weapon, you type it in, if you want to whirl it beforehand in order to do a special move, yep, you type in two commands, one to whirl, one to slash/pummel/strike/etc.