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These early online games became known as "door games" because once a user was connected to a BBS, the games were accessed and played through a figurative "doorway" between the BBS software and the separate, independently running game program.
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The Forgotten World of BBS Door Games
This is one of my favorites and it has always been popular, it is called Legend of the Red Dragon, and if this page worked you could play it on-line without creating an account:
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/l...n-319/play-319
You choose your class, venture to the forest, fight monsters, occasionally visit the healer's hut, periodically upgrade your weapon and armor, and level up at the trainer.
Once you reach level 12 you find the dragon, slay it, and save the village, except you always miss a dragon egg.
This is the one that I usually call:
https://conchaos.synchro.net/index.html
I haven't called in maybe a week. Either I won the games that I was playing or realized they were impossible to win. I tried to do the message boards, but even network message groups, where users could access the same groups from multiple BBSes, people don't post often, and half the time they ignore me.
However, they have a retro computing discussion going.