Originally Posted by
MiDiablo
My dad ran "Outer Limits" BBS back in the day. I don't remember the games we would play, but I remember that was before anything like AOL or Forums had really taken off. I think one of the games we could get money and buy hookers
I was like 12, buying hookers, learning how to play on the computer instead of studying for school
There were several BBS that I was into back in the day. Some for trading games. They would let you download but only after you uploaded something first. It would keep track of what you uploaded and then you had a ratio to which you could download. Usually 3:1 and some of the good ones had 5:1 ratio. Being on a 9600 baud modem took hours and forever to download some of the game. Fortunately most were only a few discs in size. I remember Mudd. I remember scroll shock when the lag finally caught up. remember the old copy protection? "Turn to page 5,.. 4th line down 3rd word." So we had to provide either a scanned image of the book pages or a text file describing what you needed to know. Remember the first Monkey Island? Or Apache Attack chopper? Stunt driver? Even at 43 I'm still a big kid at heart. Still love my video games. We still get 3 way Star Craft going on the lan here between my son, my brother and myself. Or we'll get some good old Quake or UT going. My son wants to be a video game programmer.
Hurst