Space Combat is a play-by-mail game that was published by Twin Engine Gaming. It was computer moderated. Space Combat was a game of tactical space combat...
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play-by-mail game (also known as a PBM game, PBEM game, turn-based game, turn based distance game, or an interactive strategy game.) is a game played...
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Centurion is a space-based play-by-mail (PBM) game. Centurion was a closed-ended space-based play-by-mail wargame. It was based on the tabletop game Centurion...
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of play-by-mail (PBM) games. It includes games played only by postal mail, those played by mail with a play-by-email (PBEM) option, and games played in...
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closed-end, science fiction play-by-mail game of expansion and conquest published by Zephyr Enterprises and MBT Games. A game of space exploration and conquest...
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Death by Starlight is a closed-end, computer-moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) science fiction combat game run by Twin Engine Gaming in the 1990s. Death by Starlight...
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strategic science fiction play-by-mail game that included space exploration, colonization of worlds, and options for diplomacy or combat with other races encountered...
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Capitol is a closed-end, computer-moderated play-by-mail game created and moderated by Adventures by Mail beginning in 1983. Capitol involved twelve identically...
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A play-by-post role-playing game (or sim) is an online text-based role-playing game in which players interact with each other and a predefined environment...
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Space Hulk is a board game for two players produced by Games Workshop. It was originally released in 1989. The game is set in the fictional universe of...
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play-by-mail (PBM) space opera. It was published by the Orpheus Publishing Corporation in January 1990 after playtesting. The game was playable by postal...
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Cosmic Crusaders (category Play-by-mail games)
Crusaders is a play-by-mail (PBM) game of tactical space combat that was published by Genesis Games Design beginning in 1993. The game was closed-end...
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Galactic Prisoners (category Play-by-mail games)
) is a closed-end, play-by-mail (PBM) wargame. Galactic Prisoners was a space-based, science fiction play-by-mail game published by Grandel, Inc. It was...
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developing the game in 1984, eventually publishing it in December 1989 as a play-by-mail (PBM) game after over a year of playtesting. The initial game comprised...
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Supernova II (category Play-by-mail games)
computer moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) game of space conflict. Supernova II was a play-by-mail game of space conflict designed by Peter Donnan and Russel...
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Takamo (category Play-by-mail games)
computer moderated, space-based play-by-email (PBeM) game. Advent Games launched it as a play-by-mail game in 1982 with a subsequent game, Takamo II, in 1990...
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Rimworlds (category Play-by-mail games)
fiction, play-by-mail (PBM) game. Rimworlds was an open-end computer moderated, play-by-mail game with a space-based setting. Rimworlds was published by Palace...
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a space strategy video game created by Nathan Lamont of Bigger Planet Software, and first released by Changeling Software in 1998. In 1999 the game was...
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space-based play-by-mail (PBM) game. Designed in 1983 and launched afterward by Kevin Flynn of Australian Wizard, the game was also offered for play by...
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closed-end, computer-moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) wargame. It was published by Game Systems, Inc. in 1989. Twenty players role-played demigods battling for supremacyby...
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Alien Conflict (category Play-by-mail games)
Alien Conflict is a play-by-mail game by Schubel & Son begun in 1983. Alien Conflict was a play-by-mail computer-moderated game in which the players are...
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commercially published game to be played by mail (PBM); only chess, which is in the public domain, saw significant postal play earlier. Diplomacy was...
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of Destiny was a play-by-mail game created by Maelstrom Games in the early 1990s. It was a "low to moderately complex" game of space conquest for twelve...
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Empires is a space-based play-by-mail (PBM) space opera. Designed and published by Geoff Squibb in 1984 in the United Kingdom, the game was hand-moderated...
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Mobius I (redirect from Mobius I (game))
closed-end, space-based play-by-mail (PBM) wargame of space conquest. The game was first published in 1984 by Mobius Games and was subsequently published by Flying...
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A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional...
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Cluster Lords (category Play-by-mail games)
Lords is a closed-end, play-by-mail science fiction, space opera. Palace Simulations published the game which was available for play in 1992. Cluster Lords...
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computer-moderated, play-by-mail space-based game of intrigue. It was published by Entertainment Concepts Inc. (ECI). By late 1985, an updated version of the game, Power+...
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Elite is a space trading video game. It was written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell and was originally published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro...
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moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) fantasy wargame. It was published by Karl Zeimettz in the US and Triad Simulations in the UK Similar to Risk, the game pitted...
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