Original: In 1991, BjÃ rn Stabell and Ken Schouten, then computer science undergraduates at the University of TromsÃ, began writing XPilot, inspired by the earlier game Thrust.
Simplified: XPilot was created in 1991 by BjÃ rn Stabell and Ken Ronny Schouten, students in computer science at the TromsÃ university (Norway), as a multiplayer game similar to Thrust.