10 Greatest PC Games of All Time
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Friday, 21 October 2011, 00:57 IST
10. TradeWars 2002
TradeWar 2002 (TW 2002) is a space game, developed starting in 1984 and continuing through the 1990s by Gary Martin, later versions developed by John Pritchett both and, starting in 1998.
It's a text-based space strategy game hails from a somewhat secret world of Bulletin Board System doors early online games played on dial-up BBSs, which peaked in the 1980s and 1990s.
The player is a trader in a galaxy with a fixed set of other players either human or computer. The players seek to gain control of a limited set and amount of resources like fuel ore, organics, and equipment and travel through sectors of the galaxy trading them for money or undervalued resources. Players use their wealth to upgrade their spaceship with better weapons and defenses and fight for control of planets and star bases.