Re: Lost Forever Games

On 12/06/2025 17:27, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

But it occurred to me --whilst thumbing through the back pages of an
old copy of "Computer Gaming World"-- that there is one genre of games
that will/never/ be preserved and, in fact, seems likely to be
forgotten forever. And that's the world of PBM/PBEM games.

The only one I've played was It's A crime (I believe it's still going) in the mod 80's. It was fun but as my source of income was my paper round I gave it up as it was just too expensive.
I also have an sorta one as we used to play Diplomacy at work with two, or maybe three, turns a week. That was really good fun although we did have one player that got a bit upset. I'd say that was of their own making. The game is called Diplomacy for a reason so if you point blank refuse to try and form alliances, and you're Austro-Hungary, then you really shouldn't expect to last very long and they didn't.