Friday, February 18, 2011

Thunderdome II


If you enjoy games like Fallout you may like Thunderdome II, a text-based RPG game that has been online since 1994.Often likened to Wasteland, the Commodore 64 prequel to "Fallout", Tdome offers a dark, and often humorous perspective on a futuristic world set sometime after a nuclear holocaust. Human society, now composed of roughly governed gangs, must now contend with aliens and mutated creatures for control. The game boasts over 13k rooms, and players can choose between 12 different classes, and are allowed to log on 3 seperate characters simultaneously.

Guns (dozens are available), biological implants and magic are available, offering alternative methods for a character in a life filled to the brim with danger and adventure. Inexperienced players soon learn that for survival chances may be increased by joining one of Tdome's many gangs that offer a variety of advantages.

The homepage for Thunderdome is here. To connect, either use a telnet client or one of the Mud clients offered in the links page, such as AL client, zMud or WinTin++.

If you are the sort that enjoys a game that walks on the wild side, come seek the challenge of survival in a world gone mad. There should be plenty of room to accommodate you..

43 comments:

  1. I am usually not a fan of text-based RPGS (except for Pen&Paper), but I believe this is worth checking out.

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  2. Althought that game is online since 1994, I never heard of it.

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  3. heh.. I've gotten wayy too addicted to a few muds in the past. Don't want to walk that path again :P

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  4. Fallout games are amazing! Text based RPG games are also quite good fun! keep up the blogginG!

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  5. Text rpg are so oldschool, maybe alil bit too oldschool for me

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  6. love old school text rpgs so much fun

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  7. Haha. That's a bit of a dated game for my tastes. But I'll definitely play that if I'm stuck with a crappy computer lol

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  8. I'm in the same boat as Daan as I've never heard of this game before stumbling across your blog.. Going to check it out for sure.

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  9. Hmm, I might like this game, I loved the original Fallout games.

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  10. never heard about this game before, I'll check it out!

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  11. WOOP! FOLLOWER NUMBER 100!!

    congratulations bro...

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  12. not a fan of text based games, too much reading!

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  13. Nice game! Thanks for share. I'll try it on weekend

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  14. I loved text based games, I remember this one that started with the command "pick up pumpkin" but I kinda forgot the name.

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  15. Love how you can develop your own personality in these games, just wish the end game was more diverse.

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  16. i agree, i dont like text based games.
    i recently finished fallout new vegas. it was too short.
    good quality, long, and in depth games are hard to come by nowadays.
    morrowind would definately be one of the greatest rpg games of all time.

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  17. looks good, i'll check it out. Love those post-apocalyptic scenarios

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  18. Didn't knew this game before but i will sure check it out it sounds awesome thnx!

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  19. Amusingly exemplified in this case

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  20. So this has nothing to do with Mad Max?

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  21. Dude old school PC games are by far my favorite. Fallout as a great game, this one looks dope as shit

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  22. cool post -following and supporting bro

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  23. I've never heard of Thunderdome II... sounds awesome though. Thanks for sharing. =)

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  24. it sounds like STALKER text version

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  25. Im not into text based stuff.
    I can see why its fun though. Basically a novel, isnt it?
    Actually i take that back, i love Phoenix Wright games :D

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  26. Wow that's craxy! I've never even heard of this type of thing. Great man.
    I've just started to telnet into cisco routers so this is going to be cool!
    Cheers for the info :)

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  27. Dude I just started playing! It's great, thanks for the AWESOME link. I'd never even thought of doing this kind of thing

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  28. never got into a text based rpg, but this one sounds enticing.

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  29. Looks interesting, might give it a shot later.

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  30. Pretty cool, going to check out the link ^^

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  31. I'm a huge fan of fallout!...so I'm gonna check this out whenever I get some time. Seems pretty epic.

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  32. Interesting, I'm gonna try it out.

    Also, I'm following.

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  33. Awesome, might check it out :D followed

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  34. never heard about this game before, I'll check it out!

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  35. Same here i absolutely loved fallout, but never heard of Thunderdome

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