Trying to remember a BBS door game... reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bstmnfall · 2015-05-01 04:08 This is probably a better place than anywhere to ask this... I'm trying to remember a CRPG BBS door game from the later part of the BBS days (mid-90s?). It was a top-down RPG similar to Ultima where you explored a devastated landscape (but was NOT Land of Devastation). I specifically remember at one point meeting a very out of context Captain Kirk and Spock trying to fix their ship. The rest of the world was more fantasy than sci-fi. I remember playing it in one of EGA/VGA/SVGA (fossil mode was it?). I remember playing it mostly single player/offline, though. Anyone have a clue what I'm talking about? Much appreciated! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nolageek · 2015-05-01 15:57 This doesn't sound familiar, but I didn't play a ton of games back then. It could have been a game that had a graphical front end of some sort. The kirk/Spock bit may be enough to trigger a memory from someone in here though. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bovinitysupreme · 2015-05-01 16:04 Kirk was in a special quest in LOD. When you say "NOT Land of Devastation" my first thought is Operation Overkill ][ but I can't imagine Kirk and Spock ever being in that. If you figure it out without help from this thread, please post the answer here. Don't be [denvercoder9](https://xkcd.com/979/). I'm interested in the answer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xkcd_transcriber · 2015-05-01 16:04 [Image](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wisdom_of_the_ancients.png) **Title:** Wisdom of the Ancients **Title-text:** All long help threads should have a sticky globally- editable post at the top saying 'DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here's what we've figured out so far ...' 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Unless there's some version of LOD that I'm missing that had a large top-down graphical display? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bovinitysupreme · 2015-05-02 01:07 Well, any sysop could create their own maps, characters, quests, etc for LOD. Most didn't customize at all or only did minor customizations, but a few basically built whole new games. LOD had GTerm for a graphical display. I don't remember if it had ANSI or graphical content for the top-down view. The only other technology I remember where BBS stuff could have graphical displays was RIPSCRIP in RIPTerm and possibly a few other clients. I don't remember anything in specific that was made for it though I do recall that at least one BBS around me had some support for it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mpfjr · 2015-05-02 01:43 I was a sysop and had Land of Devastation registered. This game did indeed have a VGA front end for it but you could play in ANSI mode. I don't remember much of the game play itself and I don't remember any top-down content. I can remember the music though :) Scott Baker is really a nice guy. I remember chatting with him on FidoNET. Anyways, here is the link to the wiki photos. Maybe one will jog your memory. http://lod.wikia.com/wiki/Special:NewFiles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kirkman14 · 2015-05-02 02:59 [GTerm for LoD was very nice](http://breakintochat.com/wiki/Land_of_Devastation#Interface), and ran in SVGA. I'm planning to publish an article about it on Break Into Chat this year. PitTerm also had a graphical front-end client, but that can't be what OP is remembering. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bstmnfall · 2015-05-10 23:46 Sadly, definitely not it. I've tried going through a dozen or so of the larger games (assuming larger since it's SVGA), but sadly can't find it. There was a lot of outdoor space (I'm remember similar, though not as nice, as Legend of Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link, including impassable areas if certain events weren't triggered. Unfortunately, I had a major hard drive crash a decade or so ago and lost so much of my past files... :-(