Then he seduced one of the female player characters and got her pregnant. Later, just for good measure, he bribed the innkeeper and snuck into the room of another warrior, slaughtering him for the experience points. Then he slaughtered a bunch of evil and strange forest creatures. He woke up after a night of wild lovemaking with a beautiful woman. But imagine, if you will, an MMORPG with the audacity to go “all the way.” I wanted so badly to get in on it when it started, but it's taken all this time for my NeoGAF account to be approved.īy the way, BBSes are still around via telnet, and you can find tons of old door games - not just the well-known ones for PC BBSes, but even Atari BBSes, Commodore 64 BBSes, etc.Age of Conan stopped at bared breasts. There's also a blog there where I've been publishing interviews with door game authors such as Amit Patel (SRE), Joel Bergen (Global War) and Austin Seraphin (Barneysplat!).Īnyway, I apologize for bumping this thread. But what about the hundreds of other games that seem to have been forgotten? Since December I've been trying to add lots of new articles, even if they are brief for now, to help preserve whatever bits I can. History will certainly remember TradeWars, LoRD, and BRE. I forked all of WP's door game articles onto a new BBS door game wiki. I was upset when Wikipedia began deleting and threatening to delete BBS door game articles late last year under the guise of 'non-notability.' That spurred me into action. Even the BBS Documentary spent only two or three minutes discussing them. Yet it seems to me these games have gotten short shrift from historians, academics, etc. It was the humble BBS that brought social multiplayer gaming to a much wider audience, for free.

The only barrier to entry was owning a computer and a modem. Sure there were other earlier networked multiplayer games, but they tended to be accessible only to the few who had access to mainframes or Arpanet or who could afford expensive subscriptions to CompuServe, GEnie, etc.īBSes were different. To me, these games are an important but overlooked part of gaming history.

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