OT: Any One Remember

[Baron Munchausen]

StarShadow said:
I remember a fun space-based trader game on BBS's. Can't remember what it's called now, though.

Tradewars! (And then 'Tradewars 2000')

You had to seek out planets and/or build bases, develop your economy, research new technologies, build warships, and fight your enemies. I'd say it was the grandparent of all 4X computer games.

[StarShadow]

That was it, Tradewars! That was a great game. I've always thought it'd be really cool if there was a modern single-player version, no 3d though, 2d graphics at best, although I think it'd stll work with ASCII graphics.

[AgentZero]

Tradewars effing rocked! Between it and Legend of the Red Dragon, my phone lines used to be busy from when I got home until dinner time. I can't describe how happy I was when my parents got me my own phone line for my birthday.

Almost as happy as when I realized that while the default speed for my modem was 900 baud, it'd go all the way up to 2700!

[Atrocities]

I found it.

http://www.planetarion.com/news.php?...on&section=ann
A Wikipedia page about the game

[Sivran]

Planetarion's gone through a couple owners now, and since going pay to play, has shrunk drastically. You have to be hardcore, dedicating all your time to it, or you'll never get anywhere.

Same goes for most games like that.

[Atrocities]

I just remember that back in the day it was a rigged game. On day one of a new round there would be players with huge scores so massive after just a few hours and turns that no one could challenge them. I was lucky enough to join a good Alliance and later discovered that one of the players of that alliance was also a Tribes player. He was a top 20 player of Planetarion and one night on a Tribes server he let the nasty cat out of the bag that most of the high ranking players started the game that way. I never played it after that but always wanted to run a game like that so that I could run it fair.

[Possum]

Hehe, my first 'puter at home was an Apple IIc

I agree the old Trade Wars 2002 BBS game rocked. I ran the Possumhole BBS back in the day, and it was fun.

Today there is something remarkably similar over at Starport