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Do you know MUDS (mean ugly dirty sports). That was a great sports game.

Or Speedball 2. God I loved that game.
What happened to Bitmap Brothers?

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I turned 14 in February, so I'm in the lonely little age group of 15-. I remember downloading Masters of Magic off an abandonware site once, and it KICKED ***! You gotta love them Adamantium hammerhands.

*puts on asbestos suit* I thought all the old games were supposed to be simple and crappy.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Wow, I'm 28 and I think that's my first Strat game too (for the Amiga). There was another one too based on Japan.. Lords of the Rising Sun I think. Cinemaware was the best series of games!

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I am 28 and my first computer game was F19 in about 1988 I think. I was playing it on very bad rip-off of IBM PX XT, called "EC-1840". (it didn't had hardrive and come with monochrome Hercules-type display). These were the days... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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I seem to be right in the middle of the most common age Groups (I'm 28), and I didn't even remember a lot of these games until people here reminded me of them. The one I've been expecting to see here was Temple of Apshai (or was it Legend of Apshai-dear god I feel old) for the C-64 (sweet commodore cartridge games), and Rule Babylon, a great old text-based kingdom sim.

I guess it's nice to know that I'm not alone in having been a hopeless gaming addict all my life.

Oh, and I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Warlords? Warlords 1 got me into hot-seat gaming, and for some obscure reason, even in this age of ADSL and multiplayer, it still bothers me when a turn-based game does not have hotseat. Without hotseat, how can you role-play AND wargame at the same time?

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There were several Apshai games. I believe there were both Temple and Legend games. Warriors of Apshai sounds familiar too. I'll have to go looking around some day. I remember having fun with them waaaaay back when on my C-64.

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*g* I think I still have Archon, The Ancient Art of War, Wasteland, Articfox, Pinball Construction Set, The Seven Cities of Gold and others of that era on the original 5.25" floppies. Not that I've used a 5.25" for a while...

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Better than hammerhands - adamantium (or even mithril) berserkers with a few spells cast on them. IIRC, they were 8 to a unit, multiplying the benefit of all bonuses, and they had a thrown attack, meaning that one of the best foot/melee soldiers could also attacking flying units. Awesome.


<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Heh. The graphics were crappy, but the gameplay was often wonderful.

LodeRunner, for instance - unbelievable quantity of hours playing that, trying to figure out how to beat the different levels. Or Wizardry - graphics that could've been done on an EtchaSketch, but addictive enough that I bought a copy before I owned a computer - $70 in, mmm, 84? Sometimes had three of us playing at the same time on computers in the office, including a staff sergeant who made fun of us for games until he tried it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Or Sword of Aragon, in some ways one of the original precursors to Dominions....

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I thought that Temple of Apshai sucked, personally... Telengard was better. But ... cartridge games for the C64? I had a C128, bought with reenlistment bonus money; it had a floppy. A roommate had the C64 - something like 15 minutes to load Apshai from cassette tape. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The original Warlords was one of my Favorites - I still wish they'd include it as a bonus on one of the new Versions. Lots and lots of hours playing it hotseat - weekend parties, beer, whiskey, loud music, and constantly someone taking their turn at the computer. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

A classic really, because all the different nations played with such different flavor, and most had several possible "key" strategies. Orcs rushing for a couple of cities to the south, Bane all alone in the NE, elves sandwiched between giants and the knight nation... I wish I still had that one.

Heh. Something else we used to do for hotseat games, of Warlords and Anacreon (a great text-based sciencefiction 4X game) was to play at work, with 3-5 games at once, so people almost never had to wait for a turn. The brass thought we were dedicated, 'cause there'd often be someone there to answer the phone and give tech support long after duty hours. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Played or owned all of those, but definately don't still have any - finally ditched boxes full of 5.25 floppies a move or three ago. If you could find a computer with a 5.25, odds were that a given disk couldn't be read; if it could be read, odds were the game was unplayable on faster CPUs - some you couldn't even see more than a blur of action on screen. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Jumpman Junior came on a cartridge that plugged into the back of the C64. I found it to be much harder than the original Jumpman.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">There was a floppy drive for the C64, but the first Version wore out extremely quickly. We went through several of them in a short period of time.

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I started out on an Atari 400 with a tape drive and my first non cartridge game was Eastern Front, WWII with weather effects, fortification and lots of good times. Telengard was also fun and even my non computer friends liked 4 player M.U.L.E. I still regularly play the first Sid Meyer games Civ, Colonization, MOM, etc. Cartridge games I remember are Joust, and Dig Dug.

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Has the age profile changed much? I just voted and made the first on in the 55 to 60 age group.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">But treachery and spelling nazism will always overcome age and trechery http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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If this thread goes on much longer, I'll have to resubmit my answer http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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I just recently turned thirty. My group or four are all roughly in the same bracket.

Oh, and regarding Master of Magic, you are all way wrong. The unit to have is of course hobbit slingers. Adamantium bullets go through knight and horse. Got to love that thwack-thvack-thvack sound. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Those hobbit slingers still warp the way our Warhammer group sees halflings to this day.

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Too bad they're no match for the undisputed power of the Klackon Spearmen!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Cute. Actually I have a birthday coming up in a few days but it doesnt quite change my Category yet.

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Temple of Apshai on a 5.25" was the very first game I got for my C-64, and I promptly wrecked it by titling my saved games as "level 1", "level 2", etc.

After several restarts, I found the first few levels were entirely empty of monsters and treasure - apparently, the game had titled the original starting levels files "level 1", "level 2", etc, and it had let me save right over them. By the time I figured it out, things were so depopulated on the early levels, I was unable to get enough experience/equipment to survive at all on the later levels. Game over.

Better gaming memories:
- Impossible Mission for C-64: I still remember the bad guy's line: "Ahh, another visitor...Stay a while. Stay forever!"
- M.U.L.E. for C-64: This game cries out for a full-blown remake.
- Conquered Kingdoms for PC: Awesome. My first real turn-based strat game I was heavily into, I remember it very fondly. I really miss developer QQP.

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just thought I would remind people that there is an interesting poll at the beginnning of this thread

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I'm another Atari 8-bit fan, for the record. I think some of the games for that platform are still the best of their type that I've seen, though perhaps partly because their type (action over graphics) isn't in vogue and won't sell massive amounts to foolish newbies these days.

Star Raiders
Necromancer
Encounter

Other amazing games for their day, on the Atari (and some others) included:

Omnitrend's Universe
Eastern Front 1941 (Already mentioned)
War In Russia (I think I prefer this original Version to the later PC Versions)
Computer Ambush
The Cosmic Balance

PvK

[ April 24, 2004, 18:41: Message edited by: PvK ]

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The average age has gone down abit since Last I looked but still higher than many game communitys.

NEW PEOPLE: jump to
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...424;p=5#000001
and "vote" in the Poll

[ May 14, 2004, 15:58: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]