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Play-by-mail game The Land of Karrus, as portrayed in Paper Mayhem magazine [1]. This is a list of play-by-mail (PBM) games. It includes games played only by postal mail, those played by mail with a play-by-email (PBEM) option, and games played in a turn-based format only by email or other digital format.
A play-by-mail game (also known as a PBM game, PBEM game, turn-based game, turn based distance game, or an interactive strategy game. [a]) is a game played through postal mail, email, or other digital media. Correspondence chess and Go were among the first PBM games. Diplomacy has been played by mail since 1963, introducing a multi-player ...
Starweb (or StarWeb) is a closed-end, space-based, play-by-mail (PBM) game. First published by Flying Buffalo Inc. in 1975, it was the company's second PBM game after Nuclear Destruction, the game that started the PBM industry in 1970. Players today can choose a postal mail or email format.
www .kjcgames .com /mi /mi .htm. Monster Island is a play-by-mail (PBM) role-playing game. It was initially published by Adventures By Mail in Cohoes, New York. Jack Everitt, the game designer, came up with the idea for the game in 1985. The game, which was open-ended and computer moderated, was active by 1989, expanded rapidly in North America ...
It's a Crime (also known as It's a Crime!) is a play-by-mail (PBM) game initially published by Adventures By Mail in September 1985. On publication, it was an introductory PBM game that took place in New York City in the 1990s where players attempted to raise a gang leader to the position of Godfather. [ 1] During its initial decade, gameplay ...
Middle-earth PBM Fourth Age, circa 1000 won the Origins Award for Best New Play-by-Mail Game of 1997, [9] and the Best Ongoing Play-by-Mail Game of 1998 [10] and 1999, [11] and Middle Earth FA 1000 won for "Best Play By Mail Game" in 2001. [12] In 1998, the game was inducted into the Origins Award Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame. [13] The game ...
Starmaster was a strategic science fiction play-by-mail game that included space exploration, colonization of worlds, and options for diplomacy or combat with other races encountered. [ 2] The premise of the game was that new races that achieve "faster-than-light" space travel would naturally explore and colonize neighboring star systems, and ...
Technology was basic at the outset and advances during the game. [1] For combat, players had access to "infantry, tanks, aircraft, and ships". [3] Nuclear weapons were possible later in gameplay. [1] Diplomacy was part of gameplay, through an in-game messaging system or outside of the game. [1] Players achieved victory by gaining control of 20% ...