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While many of the most popular and memorable BBS doors have been games, numerous doors had non-entertainment applications such as user polls or the time bank, permitting users to time-shift their rationed BBS use. Frequently they act as a front-end to themed databases on subject such as astrology, numerology and fortune-telling, recipes ...
A Door game is a BBS door that allows users of a Bulletin board system to play a game, usually one that allows interaction with other players (either asynchronous or synchronous). Though some have been adapted to work with telnet BBS systems, they have fallen out of popularity. Some games require a telnet client capable of displaying code page 437.
The front page of textfiles.com in 2004. textfiles.com is a website dedicated to preserving the digital documents that contain the history of the bulletin board system (BBS) world and various subcultures, [1] and thus providing "a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange allowed them". [2]
Robinson Technologies is a Japanese video game developer founded by Seth Robinson. The company produced the BBS door games Legend of the Red Dragon, Planets: The Exploration of Space and Growtopia, an experimental multiplayer creative sandbox created as a collaboration with Hamumu Software, released in 2013 for iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows, and macOS.
The following is a list of usurpers – illegitimate or controversial claimants to the throne in a monarchy. The word usurper is a derogatory term, often associated with claims that the ruler seized power by force or deceit rather than legal right. [1] The term has often carried disdain to those who have been accused of being one. [2]
Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD) is a text-based online role-playing video game, released in 1989 by Robinson Technologies. [1] LORD is one of the best known door games. [1] [2] The player's goal is to improve their skills in order to defeat the Red Dragon which has been attacking the village.
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The first game with the title, Trade Wars, by Chris Sherrick, was developed in BASIC for the TRS-80 Model II, and soon ported, by Sherrick, to the IBM PC for the Nochange BBS system in 1984. [2] Sherrick conceived his game as a cross between Dave Kaufman's BASIC program Star Trader (1974), the board game Risk , and Gregory Yob's Hunt the Wumpus ...