Trade Wars 2002

BitterBeerFace · Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 2:58 am Post subject: Trade Wars 2002

Did any of you play TW2002? Or even better yet, do any of you STILL play? A friend of mine is trying to get a server back up and running, and if I could recruit some other players from here, it'd be pretty cool

The server is currently not working, but we're trying... if anyone has experience with hosting the game and would like to help, PM me and I'll pepper you with questions about it

Warhammer · Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 11:22 am Post subject:

The only TW2002 I ever saw was a BBS door. Is it around now on the web??

BitterBeerFace · Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 7:25 pm Post subject:

Yeah, there are versions now that allow you to use telnet or you can also connect to a specific IP Address/port number. I'm not sure what kind of interface the IP address has, but the telnet is just like playing on the BBS.

BigCaulk69 · Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 11:39 pm Post subject:

wow i havent played that since i was like 14...i loved it though

BitterBeerFace · Posted: Tue May 21, 2002 12:48 am Post subject:

BAHAHAHAHA! Wow, the system requirements for Trade Wars are pretty rough, I don't think I can meet them:
512K main memory
600K disk space
DOS 3.1 (3.3 or higher recommended, it's a good thing I have 4.0 somewhere)

I wonder if I'll have to get directX 8 to play it? LOL

(+)ASSASSIN(+) · Posted: Tue May 21, 2002 11:34 am Post subject:

For us who arent familiar, what exactly is trade wars?
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BitterBeerFace · Posted: Tue May 21, 2002 12:20 pm Post subject:

Trade Wars was (about a decade ago) a cutting edge multiplayer universe where you trade stuff, get rich, buy big ships and a lot of fighers and cool other weaponry, and try to be the biggest, richest, most heavily armed person (or corporation) in the universe. It has fancy 16-color (not 16-bit) graphics, too! *ooooh, ahhhh*

I know there are some significantly more up to date versions, but the one we're playing with runs on a 486 with wildcat BBS and a 2400 baud modem

It's up and working, now... at least for test purposes... we haven't been able to get the wanderers (a planet that just appears randomly) or the Borg loaded into the universe and working, though...

(+)ASSASSIN(+) · Posted: Tue May 21, 2002 3:33 pm Post subject:

Did you ever play a game called scorched earth?? very similar where you have your tank and its a 2d game and you kill each other and get money to buy different weapons and shields etc. we used to play that in high school all the time, cool game
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Goldom · Posted: Tue May 21, 2002 3:36 pm Post subject:

I played scorch for about the first 10 years of my life... best.. game.. ever.

(my funky bomb ownz j00.)

Violent Pacifist · Posted: Tue May 21, 2002 4:11 pm Post subject:

Scorched earth is the best old game ever. What's really fun to do is to dig the ground out from under an opponent and then shoot napalm all over them

Goldom · Posted: Tue May 21, 2002 4:21 pm Post subject:

pff nonono none of your new stuff, ORIGINAL scorch was best one, no napalms back then.

(+)ASSASSIN(+) · Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 3:03 pm Post subject:

Ahhh yes the days of Deaths Head and the ORIGINAL MIRV, what a game
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Snaggletooth · Guest

I'm more partial to Lemmings myself.....at least when it comes to old school. That or the old Atari Empire Strikes back arcade game.