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TradeWars 2002
- strict9 7y agoThanks for this. I've tried telnet and web-based variants over the years since with mixed results, looking forward to this. Trade Wars 2002, Legend of the Red Dragon, and running a WildCat! BBS kickstarted my interest in computers and programming in middle school. Never got into video games later in life but look back fondly on the days of staying up late playing 90s-era door games with people that lived in my area.
- 7thaccount 7y agoDoes anyone on HN still play this?
- dccoolgai 7y agoHaven't in a few years, but I might again just for nostalgia. It was such an amazing game and experience. I feel so blessed that I got to experience this growing up. We'll never get back to the time when you had picnics with the people you knew on the internet, but it was pure magic.
- _marlowe_ 7y agoI think I spent all of 1993 - 1995 playing this on Atlantis BBS.
- univacky 7y agoI learned awk for the purpose of playing Tradewars, running on DOS. Playing Tradewars on the local BBS in the mid-80s, I developed a system where I would spend the first night in a new game just running around and logging the session. Wrote an awk script to generate a map of the places I'd been. Then on successive days I'd work over the mapped areas, and expand into unmapped areas, awking it down to keep expanding the map. Good times.