Bobby's World BBS

Orlando, Florida 1989 – 1999 Wildcat! 4

Door Menu

Dial the board for a touch of nostalgia.

Below you'll find our list of supported door games. If there's an old door you remember and miss, let me know.

  • Legend of the Red Dragon

    Multiplayer RPG door · shared realm · needs a keyboard

    The big one — and it's not a remake anymore. This is the actual registered copy that ran on this board until 1999, Seth Able's LORD 4.00a, off the original hard drives. Fight through the forest, train, buy better steel, flirt your way to charm at the Inn, and duel the other callers. One shared realm, and the door reads your handle off the board, so your warrior is yours. You get a set number of forest fights per day — it's a call-back-tomorrow game, exactly like it was.

    Fight Legend of the Red Dragon

  • Trade Wars 2002

    Space trading & combat door · shared universe · needs a keyboard

    The game that was this board for ten years, and it's the real DOS program running in your browser. A thousand sectors, four hundred ports, and one shared universe — find a trade route, work it, buy a bigger ship, claim a planet, and watch your back. The door knows your handle, so your trader is yours. The board runs the game's nightly maintenance, so the galaxy keeps moving while you're gone. Fair warning: it eats evenings.

    Trade Trade Wars 2002

  • The Pit

    Arena combat door · shared world · needs a keyboard

    The famous Midas Touch arena door, and this is the real 1994 DOS program running in an emulator in your browser — graphics mode, sound, and all. Make a gladiator, buy some steel, and fight your way up from Trainees to the Norse Gods. Everyone plays in one shared world on the board — climb the same rankings and challenge each other's fighters. One line, one caller at a time, busy signal and all.

    Fight The Pit

  • Pimp Wars

    Street hustle door · shared world · adults only

    The 1994 Ahpah Software door, running as the real DOS program in your browser. Buy girls, work the street, bank the take — then check the rankings and steal from, or firebomb, the other callers. One shared world, and the door knows your handle, so your pimp is yours. Fair warning: it's crude — sex, drugs, and 1994 shareware humor that hasn't aged a day in the good direction.

    Hustle Pimp Wars

  • DopeWars

    Trading game · solo

    The old Drug Wars door — buy low, sell high across the boroughs, dodge the cops, and clear your debt to the loan shark before 30 days run out. The one a lot of you actually remember.

    Deal DopeWars

  • A Dark Room

    Text adventure · solo

    You wake by a dying fire with nothing but the cold. Light it, and see what comes. Starts as almost nothing and quietly turns into something much bigger — the closest thing here to the spirit of an old text door.

    Enter A Dark Room

  • 2048

    Number puzzle · solo

    Slide the tiles, match the numbers, chase 2048. Dead simple to start, deceptively hard to finish. Works with arrow keys or a swipe on your phone.

    Play 2048

  • Hextris

    Arcade puzzle · solo

    Tetris folded onto a hexagon. Spin the block to stack matching colors before they pile up. Speeds up the longer you last. Easy to learn, hard to put down.

    Play Hextris

Bulletin: Top Callers

Every door reports back to the board — high scores, times played, hours in the chair. Read the bulletins to see who's on top, and log in so your runs count under your own handle. Guests welcome too; your bests just age off after a week.

Disclaimer

Nearly all of these are open-source, hosted here with their original licenses kept alongside them. Credit to their authors — DopeWars by Nicolas Hurtubise, A Dark Room by Michael Townsend, 2048 by Gabriele Cirulli, and Hextris by the Hextris team. The Pit © Midas Touch Software (James R. Berry) and Pimp Wars © Ahpah Software (Paul J. Martino) are long out of print and preserved here as abandonware — if the rights holders object, they come down. Legend of the Red Dragon is a different case: it's by Seth Able Robinson, © 1992–97 RTsoft, Inc., and the copy here is the board's own registered install from the original hard drives. LORD is still supported — newer versions and registrations come from Metropolis Gameport.