Fun fact: there’s a football field-sized arena originally built into the White House laundry room for the final boss battle against James K. The one Ven would see hidden by a waterfall? Terra enters the door and finds a huge a cavernous underground room that the game will identify on revisits as a water “Purification Facility.” Terra finds a boss arena conveniently constructed over the facility purely for his viewing pleasure. The Outer Gardens are the room where Ven found Terra at the end of Ven’s meandering Radiant Garden finale, so off you go back to the courtyard and then to the gardens to find the building in the centre, which I mentioned briefly in Ven’s scenario. Terra admits he still doesn’t believe it, but decides to humour this stranger, because he really does have nothing better to do with his time.
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Please don’t confuse that with the “Gardens” from Ven’s route, but feel free to blame the developers for the similar names. Braig also doesn’t give any motivation, and only has a single demand: for Terra to come to a place in the Outer Gardens. Terra doesn’t believe him, and Braig doesn’t have any proof besides Xehanort’s name, so this doesn’t exactly look on the level, even for a kidnapping. Speaking of the uniform, Braig’s connection to the palace goes largely unexplained until a much later scene, and you could be excused for not noticing the uniform under that scarf, especially if you came to Terra’s storyline first and have yet to catch sight of Dilan and Aeleus with Ven!īraig gets straight down to business: he says that he’s taken Xehanort prisoner and that Xehanort has been asking for Terra ever since. His eyes are not yet yellow, and while this was visible in Ven’s storyline, I forgot to mention that his hair is all black instead of black striped with grey like Xigbar’s. Dressed in a palace uniform and a torn red scarf, Braig is still in possession of both eyes, has no scar on his face. Bought a house with a giant barn to work in.Since Terra has no particular objective at this point, the game teleports him back to the the lower levels of the aqueduct, where he’s greeted by a familiar stranger: Braig, whom we saw at the end of Ven’s storyline. (LORD for that version sold for $300 a pop, so it didn't take many sales to add up) Later with MajorBBS, I remember a few $1200 days. During the DOS door days at the peak I made $500 a day, all from receiving letters in the mail. The money did roll in and I sold maybe around 30k registrations of my various DOS doors, and then moved on to special versions created for Major BBS with extra real-time multi-player features that kept the income flowing. (Until that happened, it only ran on only one rather unpopular Amiga BBS software) I sold seven copies or so the first year before deciding to write it again for the PC, as that's where all the action was. At some point, some people asked if they could purchase the game for their own BBS and I packaged it up.
I was proud to have a game nobody else had. Seth: LORD was a "Darkside" (my bbs name) original for quite a while.
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GB: Considering that your games were released as shareware with the option to buy a registration code, was your plan always to make your BBS development a for-profit venture? Can you give us some idea of how many registrations were sold during the most popular BBS years and what sort of impact the revenue had on your life? In order to bring the BBS online with a bit of fanfare, though, I've also conducted interviews with several of the developers who brought us these titles - Seth Robinson (Legend of the Red Dragon), John Pritchett (TradeWars), John Dailey (Dungeon Master), Amit Patel (Barren Realms Elite), Michael Preslar (LORD and LORD 2), and Scott Baker (Land of Devastation). It was a considerable amount of fun, a great learning experience, and something I've looked back on fondly despite the technological advancements that have come along since.Īnd so it's with much enthusiasm that I announce the launch of the GameBanshee BBS, which will serve as a place where a nostalgic itch can be scratched and for many of the classic role-playing and strategy titles of yesteryear to be preserved and enjoyed for what I hope will be many years to come. Over two decades ago, pre-dating the explosion of the Internet and well before I ever started, I ran a small bulletin board system powered by WWIV in the rural community where I grew up that hosted all of the latest online games (mostly role-playing game doors) and shareware files.
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