Anybody remember those old BBS games????????

[JaiKnight]

Hehe, brings back the memories, I played LORD, TradeWars, Usurper, and BRE all the time! Too bad so many people abused that 2 billion gold bug in LORD!

 

[Ranger X]

Trade Wars and LORD kicked ASS!! I remember the good old days of LORD. Waiting your turn each day so you can kill people in the field (the ones who didn't go to the Inn) and I remember breaking into people's room and killing them. Do you guys remember Violet? She kept kicking me in the nuts until I learned that she won't sleep with you unless you have enough charm points. LOL

 

[The Wildcard]

Hahah sleeping with violet....oh yeah....lol...

 

[monto]

Tradewars!

 

[aceO07]

wow.. this thread brings back nice memories.. of my old ibm ps2 386 20mhz with 2400modem.. hehe! i remember bre, sre, lord, trader wars, usurper, overkill.. also remember some bbs used to have games that let u gamble for online time.. what a concept.. limited time for connection.. makes me wonder what ever happened to all those boards i used to connect to.. i still have an old backup of 'telemate' the dos comm program with all the bbs numbers.. just for memories..

oh my goodness!! i just visited bbs.ufies.org... wow!! ansi graphics.. took my breathe away.. i'll join it out tomorrow.. should stop procrastinating on studying now..

 

[Looney]

hehe, i use to time it so that at 12:30 midnight i'll log into the BBSes so i could take the first turns of the day in games like BRE, Trade Wars, Global Wars, etc.

Those were the days.

 

[The Wildcard]

Haha my first modem was a 2400, then when i got a 28.8.....JESUS!!! The ansi graphics on my screen just whizzed by!!

 

[b0red]

gosh, remember the cheat code "jennie" for LORD? heh

 

[Motorheader]

Serious flashback... How about time share with a local school system. Dial up and connect with a handset and a 300 baud modem (upgrade from a 150) with a tv terminal emulator and 9 pin line printer. Almost all games written in basic (most all of them), pascal, fortran, or some type of machine language. Star Wars, Star Trek, Math Games, Civil War, and Quiz Show - man did I burn up a lot of boxed paper and ribbons in those days. Threw the thing in a loop one time with a math equation - ran from Friday afternoon until Monday A.M. - they didn't like that one very much.

 

[The Wildcard]

Hahaa i remember JENNIE cuz the author had a huge crush on jennie garth, lol.

 

[brow]

Those games were great.. I especially loved Usurper, FAR more complex, it actually took some brains to play instead of just blind luck or screwed-up ad-ons that would give you insane amounts of money. Tradewars and VGA Planets ruled too. Not to long ago I started playing these games AGAIN. There are still insane amounts of BBS's out there that run these through telnet. You just get the latest version of private Hyperterminal from www.hilgraeve.com and you can log straight on to these through the internet and get back to the good 'ol days. Easy as pie! If anyone needs help doing it, drop me an email and I'll help ya out.


P.S. I know it's bad etiquette, but it was great fun to get like 5 characters in usurper and team up and just go nuts.. took a damn lot of time each day though .. hahah

 

[VudooCrush]

My strategy with LORD or T-LORD was to logon at 11:59pm and try killing everyone..I remember it so well..Every night at like 12:30 all my turns would be up and I would be done and I'd have to wait until tomorrow @ 11:59 to try again...I have sort of an online friend who's still into all of that and he runs a board, and actually just finished a while ago creating his own BBS server software..It's great software. Runs in Windows, and I think it only does telnet. But anyhow, it has the look and feel of a MBBS or WG board, and it's very easy to setup. It's also very cheap to buy it. So go take a look: www.jaegertech.com. And I believe his demo bbs system is up at: bbs.jaegertech.com ( telnet there )...If you would like a really good telnet client, check out www.telnet98.com, much better than hyperterminal.

-~VudooCrush~-

 

[THRiLL KiLL]

Haha, Tele-Arena rocked. Ah, the good old days...I kinda wish they were still here...there is still a halway-decent bbs, Rinx.com that has some of those games...you people should check it out...just telnet to it in hyperterminal I'm solaris there.

thread necromancy.

I was looking for rinx (an old bbs where i met my wife) and i found this post!

 

[Ichinisan]

[acknowledged] NECROOOOOOOooooooooooo!

These MUDs were "old" in Y2K! :awe:

 

[Kyle]

LORD kicked ass...

lol...still the only BBS game I remember

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I was on lots of BBSes, but I don't really recall playing many games.

 

[IcePickFreak]

Haha, Tele-Arena rocked. Ah, the good old days...I kinda wish they were still here...there is still a halway-decent bbs, Rinx.com that has some of those games...you people should check it out...just telnet to it in hyperterminal I'm solaris there.

Tele-Arena lol, I remember playing that one quite a bit. There was big competition between the people dialing in from our local BBS and another group from right on the other side of Lake Michigan, in Michigan. I got ganked in the Mino dungeon hundreds of times when I started out lol.

The other big one I remember playing quite a bit was Galatic Empires.

 

[CZroe]

I sold my first x86 computer to an avid MUDD player in 1998. He didn't care that it had an IBM P150 CPU (Cyrix-made 133MHz) and a 33.6K modem.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Now its called WOW

I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.

 

[KMFJD]

Empire for c64 C-net bbs's

 

[Fritzo]

What's funny is, half of those Zynga games on Facebook are based on our old BBS games. Used to love Pimpwars

So, who's going to host?

http://archives.thebbs.org/ra91c.htm

 

[rivan]

What's funny is, half of those Zynga games on Facebook are based on our old BBS games. Used to love Pimpwars

So, who's going to host?

http://archives.thebbs.org/ra91c.htm

Hours and hours and hours spent playing Trade Wars and meeting the BBS crew at Denny's at 4am. Good times.

 

[postmark]

Just so you guys know, there is an active LORD site here:

http://lord.nuklear.org/

Pretty sweet to still play it from time to time.

 

[WelshBloke]

Are MUDs still played? I used to love those theyd be well suited to smartphones.

:hmm:

*Goes off to see if theres an Android MUD client*

 

[NuclearNed]

LORD Was awesome as hell.....but does anyone remember........The Pit!!!
That game kicked ass.

Viper22

I religiously played the Pit every day. I found an exploit that allowed me to beat virtually any player... good times