Anyone know/remember Trade Wars or Warlords?

[Wolv0rine]

Oh yeah, Trade Wars was good stuff. I was a seat-of-the-pants kind of player, though, no notes or maps. I akways saw BBS door games as something to do when noone was posting msges.

L.O.R.D (Legend of the Red Dragon) was my favorite, though. Arena was good (I still have fond mempries of spending 15 hours with a buddy and programming a variant game in BASIC on the C=64, just to tork a friend of ours off who'd just gotten his programming degree and spent 4 months programming a game of his own that still didn't work, hehe)

 

[Eldorian]

The BBS I played on had an active trade wars, but I joined to late to really get into it. What I did get into was a game called usurper, where you basically formed guilds of players, went into dungeons for exp, and ruthlessly murdered every other user weaker than you for their valuable equipment. It was the most cutthroat game I've ever played, and I still have stories about it. It was great.... Betrayals, sneak attacks (disguise yourself as weak by storing all your good gear in the bank, and waiting for your guy to get killed a few times, then pull out the big guns and reign suppreme), Lore in the form of the fastest ways to get power (you could mix potions or do steroids, i was a master of mixing potions that would give the best benifit. Roids were dangerous, they made you nutz.)


Eldorian Antar

 

[Kesh]

Oh god... I'm having flashbacks to 1994, dialing up at 300 bps to the local BBS so I can play LORD and Trade Wars.

That was some of the best fun I've ever had. Just chatting and sharing files with people locally has a different feel than webboards. You can actually talk about things that went on in town last night, and get responses. Plus, meeting each other is a lot easier!

 

[mistergone]

I loved Trade Wars.. man, I miss those simple times.. I played on a couple different boards at once, and one had an updated version with more ships and a more complex central hub to strat from. At one time, me and two other players had our own "guild" and decided to be pirates, and I had a maximumly tricked out Gunstar (I think was the name). We got ourselves a planet and kicked a lot of arse until the owner of the board came in and wiped us out. I really miss those day a LOT, as it was all new back then and since it was local, I met a ton of people at MUPTs and made some good friends. Oh man... >teary eyed<

Later on I discovered Cripple Smash, which was VERY un-PC and would never be allowed these days to even exist. I mean it had stuff to offend everyone. Basicaly, it was a sort of text game where you travelled around and uhm... beat on those less fortunate than you by learning fight moves with odd names like "Toad the Wet Sprokett", "Probiscus Monkey", and the infamous, deadly, invented by ex-nazi concentration camp doctors "Kruker". Eventually you fought your way up to brawling with Jesus (after taking on Yoda, with a lightsaber, natch) and gained the rank of "Satan's Mentor". Ah yeah... good times.

Nostalgia am good. The internet today sucks by comparison.

 

[Wolv0rine]

And then there was Pimp Wars (if I remember the name, right). Wander around, collect 'ho's', beat up people, buy off the cops, get your stable treated at the clinic. Just plain goofiness.

 

[mistergone]

I just spent the last couple hours playing Trade Wars at:

http://www.rylos7.com/Java/default.htm


eh... it was fun... but I think I sated my nostalgia for now.

 

[Sanackranib]

warlords

warlords and warlords 2 were great games I wish I still had them.

 

[Datt]

Aye I remember Warlords very fondly. I played many a day on those games. Warlords I was pretty cool with it's VGA graphics. Then Warlords II came out with SVGA. I was almost always either the Yellow or the Black team. I really licked Warlords II cause it let you chose different time periods to have your fight. You could be the Romans going against the Nazis. Ah the fun. Last I heard there was a Warlords III but don't remember much about it. For those of you who wish to relive the past in all of it's 256 color SVGA graphics, http://www.ssgus.com/wldeluxe.html

Does anyone else remember Fantasy Empire? It was a TSR game where you had to chose your class and then amass an empire. You could play against either people or the computer. You slowly gained levels as you defeated enemies. At the top level there was a wizard, Elminster?, that was the highest level and the hardest to beat. I never got up that high, but I remember watching my dad play and he was able to eventually take on the top 3 computers at the same time and win.

 

[dglass]

Yah, I remember Tradewars.

In fact, I am a registered, paying customer. Too bad I don't run a BBS, eh?

--The Sigil

Me too. I had registered with the intention of running a game oriented BBS. It never did happen.