Do you know this game?
reddit / bbs

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aacawe · 2021-09-26 16:32

Hi folks. For years I’ve been racking my brain about a door game I
used to play. This game was set in space. You used a starship and you
typed in commands. I know Scan was an important command. You used it
for everything. Especially in combat. Scan and the I think you’d type
Phaser xx,xx using coordinates from your scan. I think Warp was also a
command. As well as Shields Up and Down.


Can’t really remember the objective. It’s definitely not TW or SRE.
And I really don’t think it was related to star trek either but I
could be wrong. I know it’s not a lot to go on but I’m really just
going on a feeling and tidbits of what I remember.


Thanks for any tips!

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dperry324 · 2021-09-26 16:40

Well, it does sound alot like some sort of star trek game.

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[deleted] · 2021-09-26 16:46

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aacawe · 2021-09-26 17:15

I believe it was all text. Maybe some color text. I don’t remember any
graphics. I believe the year was about 1992-1993 and it definitely ran
on a multi node BBS.

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juju2112 · 2021-09-26 17:15

Yankee Trader?

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aacawe · 2021-09-26 17:45

It was definitely multiplayer. One aspect I remember that I loved and
hated: you could play as much as you wanted, but the bbs was a pay
operation and it was like .25 cents a minute or something and so you’d
easily run out of time playing it. And you wanted to save time so you
could also play other Doors and chat and stuff.

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aacawe · 2021-09-26 17:46

I’m trying to find info on GalactiWars by Don Arnel but I’ve come up
with nothing. (Yes that’s the spelling)

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TheBr0fessor · 2021-09-26 21:46

VGA Planets? (Not to be confused with Planets: The Exploration of
Space which was the Star Trek version of L.O.R.D.)

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drcrimzon · 2021-09-26 23:15

Galactic Empires?  Sounds a lot like it.

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[deleted] · 2021-09-27 00:16

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adventureTruck · 2021-09-27 02:26

Trade Wars 2002

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Alknight74 · 2021-10-03 10:02

Sounds like TRADEWARS!!