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Seven classic BBS door games, played in your browser. Nothing to install.

Before the web there were bulletin boards, and the best thing on a bulletin board was its doors: games you played a few minutes a day against everyone else who called. The dragon in the forest, the trade routes between the stars, the arena, the catacombs. They are all here, running exactly as they did in 1995, on a DOS machine that boots inside this page.

Make a free account, pick a door, press Play. Your character waits for you between visits, and so does everyone else's.

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Legend of the Red Dragon

The door game that kept callers coming back daily. Fight in the forest, flirt with Violet or the bard, slaughter rivals and send them gloating mail. Grow strong, for the Red Dragon waits at the end of the legend.

nobody in it right now 4 players at once

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Usurper

A dark fantasy door game from Sweden, born in 1993 and named for what players do: grab the throne by force. Play a Troll barbarian or Elf sage, raid a hundred dungeon levels, hold the town with a gang, marry, and...

nobody in it right now 4 players at once

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TradeWars 2002

The space trading classic of the BBS age, in its last DOS release. You fly a Merchant Cruiser through a thousand sectors, buying low and selling high in Fuel Ore, Organics and Equipment. Profits buy fighters and new...

nobody in it right now one player at a time

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The Pit

Regal City had a problem with street violence, so King Hornbluff built an arena and charged the townspeople to watch. You arrive as a farmer's kid who saved every penny for a sword and armor. Then you fight your way...

nobody in it right now 4 players at once

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Drakeville

Name four adventurers and lead them under a city ruled by the demon Malaky. Fight for the Council as humans, elves and dwarves, or for Malaky as orcs, goblins and trolls, turn by turn in the catacombs below. Other...

nobody in it right now 4 players at once

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LORD II: New World

Walk a big overhead world screen by screen, Zelda style: Legend of the Red Dragon's sequel is a very different game. Push against the table at home for cash, and against odd patches for berries and surprises. Fight...

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Arrowbridge II - The Guardians of Darkness

The sorcerer Zombre Bryan wants the seven Orb fragments the hawks hid; his Guardians roam the land hunting them. Lead up to four heroes across Arrowbridge to find them first. Raid nine dungeons and dragon lairs...

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Last callers

ArielUsurperOct 7, 07:39
ArielUsurperOct 7, 06:07
ArielUsurperOct 7, 06:06
sysopUsurperOct 6, 07:32
ArielTradeWars 2002Oct 5, 16:08
sysopLegend of the Red DragonOct 5, 15:58
ArielLegend of the Red DragonOct 5, 15:57
ArielLegend of the Red DragonOct 5, 15:57

From the sysop

Oct 5, 2026

The board is open. Seven doors on the line: Legend of the Red Dragon, Usurper, TradeWars 2002, The Pit, Drakeville, LORD II and Arrowbridge II. Make an account and pick one.

Oct 5, 2026

Every door keeps its own clock. Turns come back at midnight, board time (US Eastern). TradeWars and Usurper run their daily maintenance on the sysop's Night page, so their worlds move whether or not anyone calls.

Oct 5, 2026

New here? The first time you open a door your browser fetches the game, which can take half a minute for the big ones. After that it is quick. Leave through the game's own quit so your character is saved.

2 members · 15 calls · 7 doors · since 2026-10-05