Trade Wars 2019, or, WHat do old BBS Gamers Play?

Post date: 2019-12-09 13:58:53

This afternoon, I was reminded of a years-long fascination with the old BBS game Trade Wars 2002. I played it mostly via Telnet, but imagine the community is largely dead by now. Does anyone still play this, and if not, is there anything available which might scratch a similar itch? Holiday snowflakes inside :)

I used to really enjoy TW2002, though never really found a server to stick with long term. I had a few helper programs to do things like keep track of ports I visited, automate exploration, and such. I was not necessarily a fan of the multiplayer aspect of the game per se, though would have enjoyed more single-player AI to compete with.

I'd vastly prefer a game which was text-based, or at least could be played so, if only because I'm totally blind and thus my options for enjoying graphical games are somewhat limited. I have a copy of X3, which while it's graphical has sufficient audio to let me sort of putter along, though I don't know if I'll ever become efficient. I'd love to try, say, EVE online but don't know how I can easily do so with my limitations.

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