BBS Games

[nytflyr]

This might be a new thing to some of you and old school for the rest, but back in the mid 90s there was an explosion of things called Bulletin Board Systems only to be snuffed out by the worlds largest BBS (AOL) and the internet. Now that Broadband is available a lot of old boards reopened, mostly for the games because the internet did message bases and files better.

anyone else play the old BBS games?

 

[Blackguard_]

I played Air Warrior 1 and 2 over Compuserve, if that's what you mean.

 

[Dracil]

Do you mean something like.... http://www.rpol.net

 

[nytflyr]

Do you mean something like.... http://www.rpol.net

no, these games are more like text vestions of Warcraft, Everquest, and things like that. one of the most famous ones is Legend of the Red Dragon

 

[Dracil]

Oh, you mean MUDs.

 

[nytflyr]

Oh, you mean MUDs.

some of them are MUDs, some are turn based strategy games (the warcraft I was refering to was the empire building versions I & II)

 

[Atlasraven]

Yeah, Sloth 3 muck. I thought most of the older stuff was long since dead.

 

[nytflyr]

Yeah, Sloth 3 muck. I thought most of the older stuff was long since dead.

It used to be, but thanks to some really great guys, the BBSs have hooked up to the interent via telnet.

Ive got these games running:
Legend of the Red Dragon
LUNATiX
Barren Realms Elite
Solar Realms Elite
Falcons Eye
Tradewars 2002
Yankee Trader
Franchise Football
Stardock Loco
and a bunch more... the only exceptions are those that could not be patched because of a Runtime 200 error in Pascal, or that for whatever reason, just refuse to work.

The games werent dead, they were on life support

 

[J3sus Is My L0rd]

HAHAHA ya Legend of the Red Dragon was SICK! That was my fav... had to log in on a dial-up to a local server that we had hosted throughout our entire area... it was freakin AWESOME! there was also another one.. uhmmm i dont remember exactly... trade wars? Anyway, it was a space ship game where you had to buy/sell shipments to and from planets to make profit, upgrade ship, weapons, buy planets, etc etc... but ya HAHA BBS are oldschool! How fun I had almost totally forgotten about them

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