Because many BBS’s had a single incoming phone line game play would be slow with one player at a time. There were various games available for users to play, many of which were multiplayer games allowing one user to compete with others. Super brilliant in their day not to mention expensive too.
From a CPU power point of view these machines were 386 40 Mhz or perhaps even a 486. If I wanted to send email to someone in England from Australia the journey could potentially take a day or two. They could also send email around the world in much the same way as we can now, albeit slower. A crude menu was presented offering functions such as ‘Read Mail’, ‘Play Games’, ‘Download Software’, etc. Their computer had a MODEM (Modulator / Demodulator ) attached through which they dialed the telephone number, making a connection before logging in. They were used by computer enthusiasts to converse with like minded people or download files, such as games, images or read articles and email. What was a BBS?Ī BBS is Bulletin Board System.
Legend of the Red Dragon was one of those games and it was a lot of fun. They could browse the BBS via a menu, send mail to others, download images or play online games. Before the internet became a thing people who wanted to send email or download games would connect, via their telephone, to a BBS.
