I very much miss the days of BBS's. Text and ascii games, and sometime some more sophisticated games. Back when you had login time limits etc..
Met a lot of friends local and around the states using those, was a great time as a teenager. Thus I feel a lot of this is nostalgia, but I look back on it fondly and some of the games were amazing.
I'm there with you as well. Put thousands of hours in. That game was a pure grind, but was so fun and boring at the same time lol