John Pritchett includes this figure on the statistics page at his TradeWars Museum wiki.
RegistrationsĪ better, apples-to-apples comparison would be the number of registrations sold to sysops. He based his estimate on registrations, his guess at pirated copies, and how many players an average game had.īut that figure is pretty squishy. He said in an interview with that LoRD was being played about 1 million times per day at its peak. Seth Robinson, author of LoRD, once made his own estimate along these lines. To me, “most popular” means “had the most players.” So let’s start there. But which was the most popular? Is it even possible to know? I don’t think anyone would dispute that TradeWars 2002 and Legend of the Red Dragon were the two most popular BBS games.
Early in our back and forth on LoRD, I said: “It became… you know, depending on who you talk to, probably the number one or number two game out of BBSes.” Blackwolf followed up by saying: “TradeWars is usually number one, LoRD is number two.” When I was on the Bobby Blackwolf Show in February, we discussed TradeWars 2002 and Legend of the Red Dragon.
