Trade Wars vs. Legend of the Red Dragon: Which was the most popular? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I-baLL · 2014-03-25 20:33 LoRD was more popular if I remember correctly. I used to be on about 5 BBSes in the early 90s and they all had LoRD but not all of them had Trade Wars. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Zahne1977 · 2014-03-25 23:19 People seem to tell me they remember LORD far more than TW2002. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UnaClocker · 2014-03-25 23:45 TradeWars was out WAY before LORD. There was TradeWars 1000, and I think there was a smaller one before 1000, but that's before my time. I believe TW was based on a game idea in some magazine, or so I read at one point in the past. Was Yankee Trader written by a different person? Seems like they were competing games, but nearly the same. TW2002 was revolutionary when it came out. It, to this day, has to be the largest deepest and most involved doorgame ever created. All the sectors, all the planets, spacestations, aliens, the ability to have so many people not just playing, but literally playing at the same time and interacting in real time. Man what a game. LORD was good, it brought a little bit of DnD to the BBS scene.One of my door games was a blatant ripoff of it's game play style, but when there's a winning formula, it only made sense to run with it. ;) But yeah, EVERYBODY played LORD, whereas TW2002 had more of a niche. So LORD was more popular, but TW (all it's varieties) had a longer life and TW2002 can win for "better game" on several fronts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- smyelta · 2014-03-26 01:06 Chris Sherrick's Trade Wars kicked off a ton of clones. TW2000/TW2002 was one of those clones, by Gary Martin. TW1000/Yankee Trader was a different clone. I think those clones borrowed ideas but I don't think one derived from the other in terms of code, and TW2002 had the longest future. LORD was not only later but a much simpler game. If you were very young in the 90s, it's more likely that LORD would have made an impression as TW2002 took a long time to get into and get good at, while LORD could make you feel pretty good if you just logged in every day. In the BBS days I wouldn't underestimate the size of TW2002's following although LORD did do well too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- the-crotch · 2014-03-26 11:59 LORD and Usurper were king in the 203 area code ---------------------------------------------------------------------- derfherdez · 2014-03-26 13:51 i think it is a matter of 'when' ... TW2002 was insanely popular from what I remember but I honestly never had the patience for it. I'm also the one that got bored, and found the Trade Wars 200/QuixPlus pascal source, and [ported it to C](https://sourceforge.net/projects/tradewarsc/). there is no bigbang, and I've only played against myself for 5-10 minutes until I got bored but yeah... I asked the TW guy about the source, and was banned from his site for even asking. So yeah... LOL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2014-03-26 17:47 Very, very anecdotally I'd say LORD comes up more often in nostalgic conversations about the BBS days. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iheartbaconsalt · 2014-03-27 04:50 I really enjoyed the door game podcast. Still trying to find a decent BBS with active message boards though.