List of BBS door games
The following is a list of 22 BBS door games.
Games[]
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Game | Description |
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Barren Realms Elite[1] | |
Food Fight[2] | |
Freshwater Fishing Simulator[3] | |
Global War[2] | |
Land of Devastation (1990)[4] | |
Murder Motel (1989)[5] | Murder Motel is a death-match-style door game for bulletin board systems in which the player checks into a hotel and tries to find and kill other players, while eluding death himself. |
Legend of the Red Dragon (1989)[2][6][7] | LORD is one of the most famous door games, and it includes turn-based combat and quests. |
Legend of the Red Dragon II[8] | A sequel to the well-known LORD, with very different features including two-dimensional top-down player navigation that required faster connections. |
"Mutants!" | |
Netrunner | The object is to break into computers and steal as much money as you can using a cyberdeck while the host system tries to stop or kill you with ICE. |
"Nukem" | A Commodore 64 BBS Game. Take control of one of the ruling countries and destroy the others. |
Operation: Overkill II[2][9] | The goal is to locate the Overkill commander and exterminate him after surviving and fighting mutants for resources. |
PimpWars[10][11] | With limited daily interactions, the player seeks to be the first to purchase an expensive pair of sunglasses through prostitution and gambling. |
Planets: The Exploration of Space (1992)[2] | A simplified multiplayer space trading game involving factions and combat. |
Solar Realms Elite (1990)[12] | |
Space Empire Elite (1987)[6] | |
Tele-Hang (1991) | |
DNDBBS (1990) DNDBBS | The Dungeons And Dragons Bulletin Board Service Text Adventure System |
The Pit (1989)[1][6][12][13] | Become a gladiator. Earning fame, glory, and gold in The Pit battling for your life. |
Trade Wars (1984)[6] (re: Star Trader[14]) | The first multiplayer space trading game. It included a complex in-game economy that inspired several future games in the same genre, including Eve Online. |
Trade Wars 2002 (1986)[1][12][15][16][17] | A popular sequel to Trade Wars that incorporated more features and compatibility improvements for various BBS platforms. |
Usurper (1985)[6] | |
VGA Planets (1991)[18][19] |
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