Hello, I just wanted to ask what doorgames even are. I'm quite confused on this because the name tells me nothing about what it could be, so please someone tell me! Thanks.
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Hello, I just wanted to ask what doorgames even are. I'm quite confused on thi
because the name tells me nothing about what it could be, so please someone tell me! Thanks.

Doorgames are games you can play on a BBS, designed for BBS use.

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Re: What ARE Doorgames?
By: Al to Alys W on Mon Mar 03 2025 08:23 pm

Huh... I see. That's a lot more simple than I thought it would be. Why are they called doorgames (or is there even a specific reason)?
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 09:03:16 -0800
"Al" (1:153/757) <Al@f757.n153.z1.fidonet> wrote:

Huh... I see. That's a lot more simple than I thought it would be.
Why are they called doorgames (or is there even a specific reason)?

I'm not sure where the term doorgame originates but BBS games have
been called "doors" since before I came on the scene.

I guess when you select an option on a BBS menu it is similar to
going through a door.

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RBBS-PC was one of, if not the first, to use the term "door". It's like
opening a door to another set of programs that the BBS can run. The
author of PCBoard was instrumental on pushing DOOR.SYS.
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Re: Re: What ARE Doorgames?
By: Al to Alys W on Tue Mar 04 2025 09:03 am

Oh yeah, huh. Interesting.
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Huh... I see. That's a lot more simple than I thought it would be. Why are they called doorgames (or is there even a specific reason)?

I'm not sure where the term doorgame originates but BBS games have been called "doors" since before I came on the scene.

I guess when you select an option on a BBS menu it is similar to going through a door.

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Re: Re: What ARE Doorgames?
By: Nigel Reed to All on Tue Mar 04 2025 11:46:30

I'm not sure where the term doorgame originates but BBS games have
been called "doors" since before I came on the scene.

I guess when you select an option on a BBS menu it is similar to
going through a door.

i'm not sure where i saw this decades ago, but doors were referred to as 'doors to another world"
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i'm not sure where i saw this decades ago, but doors were referred to as 'doors
to another world"

For RPG and space games, that would certainly be appropriate.


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