The Gaming Center
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The Gaming Center (TGC) was a South Florida based BBS that was popular in the "gamer" scene.
The original BBS started around 1995 and shut down somewhere around 1999. It had 40 dial-up nodes which support unlimited PPP internet access. 20 of those lines were for the 954 area code (Fort Lauderdale, Florida area) and the other half reached to the 305 area code (Miami area).
The BBS software used was Galacticomm's Major BBS/Worldgroup, which is probably the most expensive BBS software available on the market. It also had a Major BBS add-on called "Game Connection" which allowed it's users to play games such as Descent, Doom, and Quake, among other popular BBS door games such as Legend of the Red Dragon, Lunatix, TradeWars 2002, Major MUD, BladeMaster, and Swords of Chaos.
Although the original BBS went down some time ago, a reincarnation of the BBS was started by a user named "Palpatine". When Palpatine's former employer Valueweb, Inc purchased Galacticomm's old data center, found that Galacticomm had left a licensed copy of Worldgroup at the data center, he exercised his employee benefits and obtained the licensed copy of the software, and is now Sysop.
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