Als Geek Lab | Back to the BBS - Part two: Games and Mods @AlsGeekLab | Uploaded February 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
In this part of Back to the BBS we introduce Games and Mods. There are interviews with the authors of some excellent brand new games, as well as talking to sysops that make add-on software (mods) to BBS's that give it some modern and fun functionality.
Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's) were what people went online with before the web. This multi-part documentary shows you what BBS's do, why they are still relevant and fun to use today..

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This episode features interviews with (in order of appearance):
Richard Orr (Hayes Zyxel)
Daniel Kelly (aNACHRONiST)
Shooter Jennings (Dark Rebellion)
John Riley
Tony Pascale (Dream Master)
Dan Richter (BlackPanther)
'Denis'
Chris Eldridge (Kurisu Yamato)

Excerpts from:
"The View" - ABC Television; Shooter Jennings

Intro sequence: Scrolling ANSI: Acid Trip (2013) provided by Blocktronics. Computer user is from "Intro to ANSI 8-bit Animation / Happy Birthday" also by Blocktronics.
Thanks to Agent-037 / Matthew Anderson for the Darkness 2.0 Capture
Big shout outs to Stackfault / Dave Cloutier, Author of Multi Relay Chat (MRC)

Audio included under license from Adobe Stock:
Live Long by Falcon Dives / Epidemic Sound - ASLC-D296774-7DA3EE01AC
Catch Up by Falcon Dives / Epidemic Sound - ASLC-D2966B7-533EF240FB
Daytona Synthwave by SilverboxStudio - Jamendo - ASLC-D296642-A6D6F885D5
Midnight Safari by Lupus Nocte/Epidemic Sound - ASLC-D2965CE-943861BBD1

Full credits are given in the credit roll at end of video (there wasn't enough space here to fit it!)."

Contents:
0:00 Introduction
1:29 Door Games
2:50 Interview: Richard Orr, Author of "Baud" Game
3:30 Demo of baud
4:53 Interview: Daniel Kelly, Author of "Skyraiders" Game
5:17 Interview: Shooter Jennings. "Getting back to the BBS"
7:10 Shooter talks about making his first games.
8:54 Daniel Kelly talks about "Darkness 2.0" game
9:32 Shooter Jennings introduces his new game "1NS0MN1A"
13:20 John Riley talks about games attracting new users to BBS'es
14:35 Door Games: Conclusion
15:07 Mods: Giving a BBS individuality
15:50 Daniel Kelly talks about adding internet content to BBS's
16:44 Richard Orr talks about chat rooms and inter-personal connections
18:00 Interview: Dan Richter talks about mods
20:00 Tony Pascale talks about modding Mystic BBS software
21:49 Shooter Jennings talks about his mods
23:34 What is programming for Wildcat like?
24:14 Spotlight on a few mods
24:54 For the love: The BBS community as described by the following:
24:56 Richard Orr
25:33 Christian Sacks
27:01 Denis
27:21 Shooter Jennings - Accomplishment
27:52 Denis - Censoring
28:14 Chris Eldridge
28:47 End Credits