What? A post in the Arrowbridge echo? *Looks around for other signs of the   
   Apocalypse*   
      
   Though I still play the games on a few of today's BBSes, I have much nostalgia   
   for both games and their place in my memories of BBSing's heyday. The   
   original game was the first door game I'd played with any sort of large-scale   
   overland movement system. It may have been simply text characters, but it   
   really felt like playing a game like Zelda, except with multiple players!   
      
   A specific thing that stands out in my mind is playing Arrowbridge I in some   
   of its earlier versions (c. 1993), before it displayed the number of turns   
   left to the user. It was always exciting if you were in the middle of a war   
   with another player and had loaded up on armies at the nearest city to take   
   to siege your enemy's castle. You sometimes didn't know if you'd make it   
   overland before getting the "You feel tired" message mere turns before you   
   ran out. If you didn't make it and your enemies discovered you, they'd surely   
   have stocked up on defenders by the time you got another chance.   
      
   God, if I could find a game active enough today to have people fighting over   
   the castles!   
      
   LoRD, Trade Wars 2002, Usurper, and Overkill seem to get all the nostalgia   
   love as we sit 20+ years down the road from their introductions, but for me,   
   the Arrowbridge games will always be my favorites.   
      
   --- Mystic BBS v1.10 (Windows)   
    * Origin: Archaic Binary (Orlando, FL) (1:123/10)