Batman June 8, 2006 Share Batman Member June 8, 2006 (edited) The post here in ChitChat about Werewolf a text based forum game, got me strolling down memory lane. I ran a C-Net BBS on my Commodore 64 computer from 1982-1990. In that time I fell in love with several BBS Text games such as "Empire", "Legend of the Red Dragon" (L.O.R.D.), "Trade Wars" etc... The great thing about it was that eveyone on your BBS had so many turns per day, you would try to grow your Empire adding surfs to plant crops, to make money, and to attack fellow BBS'ers.. You could upgrade your armor, and weapons.. Does anyone remember these games at all? Anyone used to love them as much as me?? Edited June 8, 2006 by Batman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty June 8, 2006 Share Fatty GC Founder June 8, 2006 I used to play the space one.....can never remember the name although I've mentioned it several times....diff planets, mining for resources, setting up mines in dead ends so you can leave your ship, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScubaDan June 8, 2006 Share ScubaDan Member June 8, 2006 (edited) I used to play that nuclear fallout one, where you wandered a post-nuclear war landscape killing things (or getting killed by things). *Edit: It was called Land of Devastation. Edited June 8, 2006 by ScubaDan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackieChan June 8, 2006 Share JackieChan GC Alumni June 8, 2006 I LOVED "Legend of the Red Dragon". Best one I've ever played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuke June 8, 2006 Share MrDuke Member June 8, 2006 Stellar Empires. Simple, yet complex. Talengard (sp?), Telengard...something like that. Man, talk about blasts from the past... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman June 8, 2006 Author Share Batman Member June 8, 2006 We need some of those here! So we can play against eachother.. Does anyone know if they make games like that for internet forums?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfsblood June 9, 2006 Share Wolfsblood Member June 9, 2006 Wow, I totally forgot about L.O.R.D. I loved that game. That and Trade Wars. Played them on a bunch of local BBS's way back when. Let's see, Duck Hunt, Truck Stop, Forgotten Realms (Legend), Pegasus, Compustuff were all local bbs's I used to play games on. Was also a good way to get game demos too. Wolf 3D, Commander Keen, and prolly a ton of others that I still have kicking around on floppy disks. Yeah, the old demo's used to fit on a 3 1/2" 1.44 meg floppy (often more than one per disk, lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo June 9, 2006 Share anonymo Member June 9, 2006 Yeah, the old demo's used to fit on a 3 1/2" 1.44 meg floppy (often more than one per disk, lol) *thinks back to a time before harddrives* Was never into those BBS games... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfsblood June 9, 2006 Share Wolfsblood Member June 9, 2006 Missed out on a fun time that may never come again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo June 9, 2006 Share anonymo Member June 9, 2006 Missed out on a fun time that may never come again. I think I'll survive *loads steam* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shazz June 9, 2006 Share Shazz Member June 9, 2006 Yes!! Where can you find these games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DNA June 9, 2006 Share DNA Member June 9, 2006 (edited) OHHHHHH TRADE WARS!!!...Man BATMAN I almost cried when you brought that back up. I sooo miss that...We should look into it, some of us oldtimers would be in heaven again. Fatty what do you say??? HEY look what I found.... http://www.eisonline.com/twgs/ Or this one http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/stories...tradewars2.html Edited June 9, 2006 by -{ATCG}- DNA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackieChan June 9, 2006 Share JackieChan GC Alumni June 9, 2006 They're called "Door Games". I know from experience because I looked for L.O.R.D. numerous times. Dang that game was fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acid-Flux June 9, 2006 Share Acid-Flux Member June 9, 2006 LOL L.O.R.D buaaaha.. that takes me back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfsblood June 10, 2006 Share Wolfsblood Member June 10, 2006 i would still play TW if I could find somewhere to play it. So much fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bush June 10, 2006 Share Bush Member June 10, 2006 Someone posted this on another forum the other day: Start run type: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl Made me think of bbs days of the past. And yes TW ftw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xterminator June 10, 2006 Share Xterminator Member June 10, 2006 oh the BBS world....things were so much simplier back then. Actually up until last year, my friend was running a server with LORDS on it (the original, not all the fancy ones you see on the net today). i really miss that game. It was addicting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aMnesiac June 10, 2006 Share aMnesiac Member June 10, 2006 Yes! My hs friend ran a BBS and had TW, that was so fun! How could you guys forget RISK?!?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuke June 10, 2006 Share MrDuke Member June 10, 2006 I still have my tape drive!! Dunno what I'm still doin with it, but I have it. No wonder I can't remember any of my childhood... I spent it all waiting for those tapes to load. Remember entering pokes and peeks outta those magazines?? All to get a sprite from 1 side of the screen to the other?? Talk about inefficient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfsblood June 11, 2006 Share Wolfsblood Member June 11, 2006 Yeah, I used to copy those programs from RUN magazine to try to learn a little more about programming on the C-64. One little "syntax error" and you were spending hours reading over the code to find the typo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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