The Gaming Center

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The Gaming Center (TGC) was Founded by Aztech and Player, and helped managed by EllisDee in Southeast Florida based BBS that was popular in the "gamer" scene.

The original BBS started around 1995 and shut down somewhere around 1999. It had 50 dial-up nodes which support unlimited PPP internet. The Gaming Center BBS Serviced all of Southeast Florida, including (Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Miami and West Palm Beach areas. TGC was able to achieve the ability to canvas this large calling area by exploiting a little known and legal tariff of Bellsouth called MultiPath Call Forwarding. This allowed multiple calls to be forward to another location via a single phone line. Using this technique, Aztech was able to grossly expand the BBS to many calling areas by installing phone lines in strategic locations which were bordered in different calling areas. Thus when a caller called that number, it was forwarded to the main number, at no cost to the caller. This unique and highly effect technique was a trade secret which gave TGC a tremendous competitive edge.

At its peak, The Gaming Center BBS hosted more than 5,000 individual users. Recently a usergroup on MySpace has started a group to unite many of the former members: The Gaming Center BBS MySpace Group. You also find the original members at The TC Zdaemon and Skulltag Doom Clan Website

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.