Looking for BBS Door game from the late 80's...
reddit / bbs

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bigattichouse · 2013-12-02 20:07

It was like star trek, there was an involved ANSI graphics intro, and
even a neat animation of a ship landing in ANSI graphics at the end..
the screen showed interstellar space like a radar, and would switch to
local system radar - I just remember running from torpedos.  Other
than that it was mostly like Empire with the trading aspect.  anyone
play this?

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funderbolt · 2013-12-02 20:22

Tradewars 2002?

[Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TradeWars_2002)

[Tradewars.com](http://www.tradewars.com/default.html)

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bigattichouse · 2013-12-02 21:05

I just tried the gam in the link you sent - which is familiare, but it
doesn't seem to have the "console" ANSI interface... unless it was a
variant.

I almost want to say "Trek Wars" - you could see space around your
ship, and could raise shields.

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xianoth · 2013-12-03 00:12

Man I wish I could find someone that is running a C-Net board with
Hack n Slash. That was such a fun game to play.

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funderbolt · 2013-12-03 01:56

Could it be [Yankee
Trader](http://breakintochat.com/wiki/Yankee_Trader)?

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Kirkman14 · 2013-12-03 02:52

Maybe [Planets: The Exploration of Space](http://breakintochat.com/wik
i/Planets:_The_Exploration_of_Space)?  [(Fan
site)](http://planetsteos.20m.com/home.html)

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cbCode · 2013-12-03 04:44

Barren Realms or Solar Realms

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Sysop_2400 · 2013-12-03 15:19

You might take another look at
[TW2002](http://www.tradewars.com/default.html)
([wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_wars_2002)) (it's very
console-ey).  I put together a few images of the awesome old school
ANSI art here:

http://imgur.com/a/p6ewK

You might have run in to the [TWGS](http://www.eisonline.com/),
TradeWars Game Server, which looks like a windows application.

Best of luck!

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stuffbymatt · 2014-01-02 22:37

Maybe you're thinking of
[conquest](http://www.radscan.com/conquest.html) or
[netrek](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek)? Not exactly door games
but I think one of these had an ANSI equivalent back in the day.

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[deleted] · 2014-01-02 22:38

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