Re: Old PBM's still around?

From: Juggernaut Press <juggernaut@tightbeam.com>

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Terry Cline asks:

> Just checking to see if any of these old PBM's from the late 70's
> to early/mid 80's are still around in some form.
> SivlerDawn (A AD&D PBM from Entertainment Concepts Inc.)

Silverdawn went under with ECI's other games (Star Trek PBM, AD&D PBM, Power,
others) in the mid-1980s. Earlier this year ECI sprang up again with an
on-line version of Power subtitled "The Star Throne Beckons".

> Tribes of Crain (I think differant companies ran this one.)

Tribes of Crane was only run by Schubel & Son in the United States. It
resurfaces periodically in the United Kingdom. I remember folks like Terry
Tallman spending hundreds of dollars each month to buy themselves a power
position in Crane. Schubel made a mint for awhile. Nowadays, it's rare to
find a game where you can buy an unlimited number of positions, and rarer
still to find people interested in doing so.

> Crassimov's World (Not sure who ran that.)

I think Adventures by Mail postboxed it for KJC Games in the early to
mid-1980s. Crasimoff's World is still run in the UK by the aptly named
Crasiworld. I believe Crasiworld updates the game periodically.

> And Hyborian War is still out with RSI running it, right?

Right. And just to tie things neatly together, the license for AD&D PBM
(Forgotten Realms) passed from the fallen ECI to RSI in the late 1980s. RSI
has run the game ever since.

> Just looking over really old stuff that survied the
> latest move.<g> Many thanks!

Thanks for the trip down mem'ry lane!

Bob McLain

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Old PBM's still around?
tcline79@aol.com (TCline79)
Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:00:00 +0000

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Old PBM's still around?
tcline79@aol.com (TCline79)
Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:00:00 +0000