Was on the boards here when I saw an ad that reminded me of the old BBS game Barren Realms Elite. For you young'ns out there, this was how people used to play interactive online games in the early to mid 90's. Instead of telnet, you can now connect using a website. See http://convolution.us/flashterm1.html I just created an account recently and tried a few of the games out. Give it a shot....Ahhh the good ol days Anyone else used to get on BBS's? What games did you play?
I used to run a WildCat board waaaay back when. BRE, L.o.R.D. (Legend of the Red Dragon) and Trade Wars were some of the more popular ones from what I recall.
This must be what it felt like when the supernintendo generation looked at the Atari generation with their Pong and... Pong.
Somewhere I have a page with all my old BBS logins on it, on a modem that was probably 1200 baud, though I have upgraded since then. One of my favorites was Oceania, but honestly I barely remember what was on there at this point. Mind ya, these were 1984-85 bits and bytes.
I played a bunch but the only ones I can think off the top of my head was LORD and Excalibur.. trying to recruit friends from school to join your kingdom
Ha - how random! I wrote that game - it was my first foray into programming back in the early 1990's while in high school.
I ran a BBS in 1989-1992 for my company and learned a lot about ASCII art. My BBS had sensational menus and navigation system built from ASCII!! I never played games though. I remember saying to myself around 1995...screw HTML...I will never do tag-based GUIs again. I also remember someone sitting me down at the Rice computer center and showing me the first internet browser...and thinking to myself...so what, I'm so bored with this stuff! so sad. I can't remember the software we bought for the BBS. Can anyone name off some for my own personal nostalgia? pre-internet?
btw: who else used to post at the rockets usenet page before coming here? I did for a year until someone posted a link here.
T.A.G., PCBoard, Wildcat!, Renegade, WWIV, Oblivion/2, and ProBoard were some of the more popular ones.
After seeing nothing familiar in your list, and ironically wrt to the thread, I forgot that I now have google at my fingertips and can search wikipedia for the answer. SuperBBS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BBS_software#MS-DOS_and_compatible
BRE...LORD... man that was the stuff back then. Good memories. I also used to play this game where you were like a gladiator and fought other players. Anyone know the name?
I have to say I'm really surprised that the game still exists - it almost seems kind of ridiculous! In the late 1990's, I basically recreated the concept on the internet and then sold BRE for peanuts to the guy who wrote Global War because I had lost interest and thought it was a dying market. I hadn't heard the name or thought about the BBS games in many years!
