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I am a bit nestalgic and often have a hard time moving past things. Case in point, back in 98 I bought a game called Tribes. I did not have high expectations for this game as it was the first all Multiplayer game ever released. I played it a bit and found that I was no good at it. I hated it in fact. A month later I came home early from work, and could not sleep so I logged onto tribes and started playing. Twelve hours later I realized I was hooked. The game was just so damn fun and addicitve.
Later I discovered the mods, Renegades and then Shifter. Oh how I loved shifter. A bunch of my good friends also bought the game and we formed our own clan named PCP (Population Control Police). We played this game like no other game before, we were the best of the best of the best and enjoyed it. On any given day during the high life of the game, you could not find a server to log onto unless you were an elite player. We made maps, many maps, skins, and voice packs. Tribes had so much to offer in the way of game play that all other mp games just pailed in comparission. This game was going strong until Dynamix, a division of Sierra released Tribes 2. The community immedately split and what was was no more. I could loose myself in tribes for literally days. I would play 24 hours or more at a time. The game was simply the best all time game that I have ever played before or since. Tribes will always be my favorite game. This morning I logged onto Tribes for the first time in over a year and played. I had the feeling of being the Last soldier standing on the battle field after a battle as I gazed out acrossed the game landscape and remembered all of the great games I had had on this particular map. Once so busy with players, now empty.. It was a lonely empty feeling that depressed me horribly. Eventually I was joined by a player and we tangoed for over 45 minutes. He'd kill me and I'd kill him. I even made a few of my patended moving kill shots with my old favorite the Rail gun. Oh how I loved that gun. After playing for a while I released how much I truely loved this game. I had stopped playing it because of all the cheaters and hackers. I was an elite player and even at my skill level I found it hard to play a game without becoming angry at those who employeed cheats. (Simular to the ones used in HL and CS) Now a days I am the only one left of my large circle of former friends who played. I can get one other guy to play, but his ISP is very limiting. I am proud of the fact that I was considered one of the best players of all time. On the tracking sites, out of over 75k players listed I was listed in the top 25 with a high of 3 and an average ranking of 10th. What hurts the most is knowning that was will neve be again. That I had something wonderful and it went away forever. Sure the game is still around, but it is dying off and all of the old players no longer play. The feeling that I am left with is one that can only be described as pale lonelyness. I wish you all could understand the power this game held for me and others. SEIV is a wonderful game and is ranked Number 2 on my list, with a wonderful community, and a solid fan base. But Tribes held something far more for me. I was, for a brief time, something that I had always wanted to be, but will never be again, engrossed in something larger than me, more powerful, and inspiring. I was amoung the Elites players and proud of it. The feelings of accomplishment, of being important, of being good at something, special, inspired, wanted, of being a team player are all gone. Tribes filled a void in my on line gaming life and now it is gone. And I do so horribly miss it so. SEIV, although fun, could never be what tribes was to me. When SEIV has passed into oblivion, and this forum is no more, I will look back upon this time I have spent here, the things I have done for the game, and the people of this forum and miss it as badly as I miss tribes. [ August 28, 2003, 14:25: Message edited by: Atrocities ] |
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So what is Tribes anyway?
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If you have to ask, then it is too late. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
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Forget nostalgia, and move past it! Everyone else has. Find out what your friends who used to play Tribes are playing now. Nothing Lasts forever. Go with the flow, and get into new and better things! You hated Tribes at first, so you'll probably hate everything else, but in time you'll find something better, just as everyone else has.
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Lately games that have come out are lacking the very qualities that made their predecessors so popular. Moo3, SimCity 4, Civ3, and Unreal 2 for examples. I never played SEIII, so for me SEIV was a new game. Unfortunetly, a few of the poeple that I used to play tribes with are dead now, and those who are still around, don't do much of anything on line any more. What I was trying to convy was the emotion the game brought out. The feeling that I had once experienced while playing. For me that time has passed, and I do miss it. Much like one would miss an old friend. You see, the game is really all I have left to help me remember my fallen friends. Sarcasim aside, I do understand your point about it being time to move on, I have, but such is real life, we do miss the good times, and that I hope I never move past. |
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Tunnels & Trolls on my TI-99/4a. I'm sure it still works but can't find the right kind of coal to power it. Simple and unpredictable....And so was the game. It was one of the first computer roll playing games I ever played. I had fun playing it and that's how I judge other games now. When I play a game now I ask myself "Am I having fun, or is this just another job"
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have you tried eve Online atrocities?;p
me and deadmeat have, its pretty cool... needs some work, but its just so damn beautiful if you play in 'altered states' ever, its really fun |
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The mans right, you young pups might not follow him, though.. Its not about the game, its about the experience playing. It could be anything, any group of people, any team or community. Any sport, martial art, race team, motorcycle club, or group of bar-flys.
I went into my favorite corner store about a year ago. I hadn't been there in about a year, since then. It was owned by this Italian family, they always a broad selection from many cases of wine, and this little deli where a little old lady that all the regulars called "mom" would make the best sandwiches you ever had. fresh sliced meat, sharp cheese, and a lot to choose from. When I showed up Last year, it had a new owner. He had pulled out the deli and only sold cheap wine. He told me there were some packaged sandwiches in the fridge, next to the bottled juice. It wasnt the same. I remember walking in empty places where my friends and I used to congrigate, where I could find people on any given night to cause trouble with. I remember going back to old bars and finding all the regulars gone, and the grizzly old bartender replaced with some young girl with great tits, but that couldnt pour a drink to save her life. some things do change forever, but you have to make new memories as you move on -- knowing that in time, those too will fade. all things die, its a part of living. you can keep a part of it alive as long as you carry it with you, and as long as you remember, theres a good chance that someone else does too. but things are never the same. |
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i almost miss tribes. and i never liked that game much.
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Terrible Swift Sword by SPI, Board Game on Gettysburg, Since computers very very little time to play board games anymore. This game was IMHO the best civil war game ever made...
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Wydraz um, it was nostalgia that brought me back to Empire Deluxe. Almost Ironic in light of your post.
As it is, I long for the days of Armored Miniatures (1/285). Still I admit I could never go back to them. I doubt I could find my old friends there. I remember the human interaction, the laughter around the table, Having dinner, Drinking beer (before there were micro brews aavailable). The zingers that would fly, The reparte, The comraderie. I almost established it here in the old Gryphin Growltiagga thread. It is not the same. :: Lifts a bottle of Michilobe in salute :: In the name of my old alias, "Ka ta din" Here's to the olde days. Peace my friends. Long may you live, May your victories be often and sweet. [ August 29, 2003, 03:28: Message edited by: Gryphin ] |
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Interesting replies. I don't mean to knock nostalgia per se, but when a game dies, there is no need to mourn too much. I came to SEIV because I was missing games like Star Control and the original MOO (I won't touch MOO3).
I guess you could say it was because of nostalgia. But I'm not going back to the old games. Compared to today's games, they begin to pale. But the feelings and wonder of discovery was what it was all about for me. So I'm not disagreeing, I'm just saying that new things can often be better than old, if you keep an open mind. Take Starfury, for instance. I can't wait! |
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I miss SEIV... and it is still around and kicking, how sad...
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i miss Battlezone. single and multi player. Still the best, for me.
i miss the thrill i had playing doom 2. i miss the long hours i spent playing SE3, there's no that addictivity in SE4 for me. i miss civ2, the original one. there are a lot of games i miss, old games. modern games... they're made to be sold and eye-candy, and do fit in timelines and budgets, plus the monopolies of the gaming world. |
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Commander Keen...X-Com:Terror from the Deep...the original Oregon Trail...Prince of Persia...Pac Man...Biomenace...Outlaws...Artillery...Centipede. ..Digger...Hang-Man
Do not miss playing Zork. Stupid guess which synonym to type crap...rage... |
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I miss Armored Core, the original on playstation. A bunch of us would sit around the tube trying to blow the bejeezus out of each other. Constantly trying to re-engineer the mech to better be able to dodge missiles or to be able to squeeze on two grenade launchers at the same time without slowing to a crawl.
Some of the most fun games were the ones with self-imposed limitations like the melee games, or the all rocket games (few things were more satisfying than pasting a buddy in the mellon from across the map with an unguided rocket and claiming that it was due purely to skill http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif ). The gasps of astonishment and sheer joy of dodging to the edge of the bLast radius of a grenade launcher, taking a mere ten damage of what would have otherwise been an armor shredding death to my stripped down chassis with a laser strapped to the arm. Ahh... but I ramble. I miss the laughter, the competition, the sharpening of our collective reflexes. Ahh, the joy. |
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i miss test drive for the a500. even though i still have it, it's one of the games that won't tranfer over, for some mysterious reason - not non-standard.
i can still play it on the amiga, but i'm kinda afraid to...that the graphics'll be to bad, relativily. i could do the entire thing without one cracked windshield. in the one that was good on turns. lexus, i think. could hardly get the ferrari to turn and the lambrougini was worse. |
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I'll be honest the only game i miss playing is the demo of seII. I can remember the time i installed that, and went on a 48 hour playing binge lol. Many sleepless nights because of that game! To use Quarian Rex's quote:
"I just defeated the galaxy on easy mode, with only 4 AI players, I outnumbered their ships 3 to 1. I'm so skillfull!!!!" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif But seriously i still dust down the cd from time to time and play it for a few days. The one thing that annoyed me was i never got the hang of tactical combat that much http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif |
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Its amazing you can go from a twitch of the finger type game to a slow methodical game like SEIV, Atrocities. I always find the former interesting, but they don't hold my attention like the latter. As for my own nostalgia, amoung computer games I miss my first few the most. Reach for the Stars (the original) I still play sometimes on the Apple II GS when I am home for christmas (that is where the II GS is). It was a spreadsheet but it was fun and it started the 4X experience for me. Oh, and I was way into cyberpunk around this time. A game called Nueromancer for the IIGS was the best adventure game and the best cyberpunk rendition I have seen. Even though noone ever heard of it. And my first wargame and multiplayer game was the original Empire at a local bookstore after hours in CGA 4 colors: black, white, baby blue, and hot pink http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif [ August 30, 2003, 10:17: Message edited by: cybersol ] |
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I miss SE III on purly nostagic reasons. I was playing 20 hours a week when she divorced me.
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The first stages of the addiction are: 1. Obssive behavior often associated with the phase, "Just one more turn." 2. You begin to miss work because you stayed up all night long playing Space Empires. 3. Your partner leaves you because you spend all of your time playing Space Empires. 4. Rapid weight gain. 5. Lack of desire to bath 6. Sleeping at your computer desk. 7. Forum addiction. 8. Days will pass by and you will still think is is sunday when in fact it is Friday. 9. Nothing begins to matter except beating the Eee. 10. You burn up your mouse, and must buy a new one. Later stages of the addiction are most powerful and best discussed later. |
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
http://www.classicgaming.com/reviews/nes/rtk.htm I did not know the game was based on a book: http://www.threekingdoms.com/ I actually got the book (in translation) via inter-library loan this week. It is really quite good. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I could not have been older than 16 when I first played ROTK... I feel old. |
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</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif There were so many. EDEN, ***, LOD, PCP, DOW, KIN, etc. I forget most of what the clan tag names stood for. But EDEN and *** (Assassins Secret Society) were among the best of the best IIRC. As Nueromancer, I had a friend who played it. He loved it. I even recall him calling into work sick so he could go to Incredible Universe and buy a help guide on the game. LOL. Like non of us have ever done that before. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif |
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I miss mom, Mom, MOm, MOM mOM moM mom !!!
The best game ever. Well, AI sucks big time and the idea of "game balance" is anathema , but still, it it was a marvelious game. |
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Atrocities
No offence taken, < gryns > The following apply: 1. Obssive behavior often associated with the phase, "Just one more turn." - Yes, big time 3. Your partner leaves you because you spend all of your time playing Space Empires. - Yeppers 4. Rapid weight gain. - Almost 5. Lack of desire to bath - For 2 days at most after that the ichyness interupts my train of thoughts 10. You burn up your mouse, and must buy a new one. - Wore out the springs 2 Kensington Track Balls in less than 5 years (which they replaced for free) 11) Has a list of Priortys and playing SE IV is at or near the top. 12) Warned all potential girlfriends of my addiction and made it clear where they stood in priortyes. |
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I used to love playing Tribes. I found the game annoying because I couldn't figure out how to play. Then I discovered the Storm voice pack, and everything changed. I would spend more time trying to figure out which South Park/Simpsons/Wrestling quote to fire off with my next death, or the unoccasional successful kill. That alone made the game worth playing. I eagerly bought Tribes 2 and still don't understand what people hate about it, except that the voice packs didn't work. Why they would make that change mystifies me. It's not as much fun unless I can scream "Screw you, hippie!" as I get blown to pieces by a mortar, sniped from some mountain, etc.
I pretty much stunk to high heavens at it but it was fun all the same. Few things will match nailing some ultra-good player (judging by all the silly letters attached at the front of his handle) with a mine or, in my few shining moments, a shocklance. My connection has never been terribly good or fast, so I was generally outmanuevered and outskilled. Unless I played one of those ridiculous over-hyper games, when the railgun fired like a machine gun. I would laugh watching a piece of Tribes landscape go up like it was hit by a cluster bomb, or see death coming my way, swift and certain. I miss Doom 2. I played that game pretty steadily, and had a laptop. I would be at some laundromat and people would be wondering what was happening on my computer, with all the gunfire and demonic screams. Best moment was, while playing at around 4:30am (through the night of course), I was racing forward and suddenly heard some god-awful pig squeal noise. I don't know how I went from running forward to running back, but that sound completely freaked me out I had to stop playing for a few minutes. That was my first encounter with an arch-vile (I think!), and that was great! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif |
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Commodore 64:
Carriers at war Gettysburg Romancing the Kingdoms IMPERIUM GALACTICA Amiga: Earl Weaver Baseball Windows: Alpha Centuri Waterloo All multiplayer and played with great friends, this I now miss |
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After reading this thread I miss tribes, and I never even played it.
Seriously... Those late-night, lights-out, slightly beered-up face-too-close-to-the-screen sessions of llamatron 2112 on the Amiga will always have a special place on my scarred and abused retinas. Oh, and playing "Alien Breed" with my bestest buddy back in my teenage days, crapping our pants as we ran for the decklift while the self-destruct countdown ticked on, lost and panicked and mobbed by a horde of giger-esque 16-bit beasties... |
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llamatron...the robot was nice. kept me alive nearly twice as long.
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I just played a game that I bought about a year ago. Star Wars Galactic Battle Grounds. Now this game is not that old, yet the game play and graphics are horribly, and I do mean horribly, out dated. They look absolutely horrendous. I had to check the game to be sure it was a true Lucas Arts game, and sure enough it was. WTF happened! Did Lucas Arts just decide to take a gaint leap backwards in technology? My god!!! This game sucks so bad that it makes MOO3 look like a My Sims champion of the year.
The laser beams look so fricking hooky that I nearly fell out of my chair in discust! What an absolute horrible excuse for a POS antiquited game! I guess Lucas has poored off into more than one area of his Star Wars empire. A bad leader is a bad leader. Time to fire Lucas and higher in some talent! Not since MOO3 have I been so utterly and completely disappoined in a game. All they did was take AOE (ONE) and swap out graphics. Dated graphics no less. Here is a game that could have rocked, especially after their first attempt at it was a failed POS, and they drop the ball again. Hell Empire Earth set the sandard, and Lucas Arts fell far far far far far below it with this game. It is like going from a computer game of today back in time to the day of the old Atari 2600 games. That is how bad this game is. I thought Civ 3 was a bad game, boy I had no clue. If you have not bought Galatic Battle Grounds yet, DON'T! not even on the budge rack. Wait to pick it up at a garage sale for 50 cents. Hell that is all that I will get for this POS crap fest game of all time. What a hunk of utter bantha fodder! If I could take this game and give it back to Lucas Arts, it would be in a billion peaces with a note attacked explaining where they can put the peaces. What a horrible and nasty trick to play on the fans. Hell I though what Quick Silver did was bad, I had no concept that they had learned it from Lucas Arts. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being SEIV, SW GBG rates no higher than a 3. (Moo3 rated a 4.) I can not believe that I spent the money to buy this game, and never played it. I feel cheated by it. I need a shower now. I will never buy another lucas arts product until long after it has gone to the junk discount bin, and then only if it has a favorable review from people like those who come here. |
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Warsong for Sega Genesis
Battlefront for Commodore 64 Red Storm Rising for Commodore 64 Gunship for Commodore 64 Baseball Stars for Nintendo |
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i spent a while today wandering around outdoors. on trails. it's fun. small trails. still fun. me monosyllabic. oops.
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I had Red Storm Rising for the PC. Great submarine game.
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One of the best, most thrilling, spine tingling games that I have ever played was the Alien Vs Predator of the The Atari Jaguar. I am telling you that game stood hair on end in places that I did not think possible. I actually recorded myself playing it from star to finish on a VCR. I can remember when we had no clue as to what to do or where to go, and then you hear it, that unmistakeable purring sound of a predator. He is near by and you like hell to get away. The trip through the Alien mother ship was especially frightening. This game scared me more than any game since. I still get chills think about it.
Sim City 3 UL. This game has got to be one of the best of the series. IT was fun, easy, difficult, playable. Unlike SC4 that is not fun at all. System Shock II. NOW THIS GAME, is a damned good example of excellent game making. It has a good story, excellent game play, awsome playability and so on. I especially enjoyed it, and just finished playing it again. Now on to DeusEX again. BOTF. One of the most under appreciated games of all time. For a star trek game it had a lot to offer, but the lawsuites over the Civilization licenses torpedo Microprose and the game was never supported. Rebellion by Lucas Arts was for all intents and pruposes the first game that I was ever addicted to. Back in 98 when it came out I would stay awayke after work for hour playing it. I loved the game and wish I could have found the fan base sooner than I did. The game had a horrendous learning curve, but once learned, it was a lot of fun to play. I do miss it so. Doom. Nuff said. Freespace I - An excellent game that really set the standard for space flight sims. Zelda and the Legend of Zelda were two of Nintendo finest games. they don't make them like that any more. |
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Ultima Underworld I & II, why did they have to have an end??
I don't miss Civ 2 as I still play it, but not as much as I play CivNet. (Both installed on my computer and I've played them in the beginning of this year) Space fighters: X-wing (The original before Tie-fighter) and the two Freelancer games, goodies! But apart from the Ultima Underworld games and Civ 1&2 there's really no old game I'd play again, (kind of a lie as I play old arcade games on the MAME emu...but thats something completely different!) For the Last 6 months I haven't played any game except SEIV. Will have to brush up on some other games as we're having a LAN weekend this autumn though; Unreal tournament, Heroes of might and magic IV. [ September 02, 2003, 21:28: Message edited by: Ruatha ] |
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TROPICO
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what's MAME?
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What was it - I thru IV was Commodore 64 Then V-VIII DOS or windows 3.1 a few were a little buggy as I recall. Then Ultima IX Ascension for 95+ Ultima IV and Ultima IX was my favorite. However I never Finished V-VII My son loves ultima IX Ascension. I never have time to even try the On Line Version, besides once I am on, I will never get off, so I don’t dare [ September 02, 2003, 21:50: Message edited by: JLS ] |
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Has anyone tried the Sierra series games of Caesar, Pharaoh, and the new one Emperor? My wife and I play Emperor LAN when possible and it is fun. New upgrade has just been released and adds much more to multiplayer... |
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Red Storm Rising was in my opinion Tom Clancy best work. Is there a game Red Storm rising, this would be centered around a all out war with NATO versus USSR with Jack Ryon to the rescue [ September 02, 2003, 22:16: Message edited by: JLS ] |
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MAME is Multi Arcade Machine Emulator, Currently emualates 4083 coin op games, I mostly play Space Duel.
Mame net Mame DK has screenshots of all games [ September 03, 2003, 21:04: Message edited by: Ruatha ] |
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this thread got me thinking of some old games i used to love...
one game in perticular i used to play for hours on end has escaped my memory, i cannot for the life of me remember what it was called... i think it started with an 'F'... Farscape, Farlight, Freesomthing... i dunno... it was a Sidescrolling shooter/adventure... takes place far into the future, i think the character escapes from jail at the beginning of the game...(Fugitive?) Very dark game, well for its time, enemies include aliens, living planets, and sercurity bots... had an energy pistol for a weapon... anyone know what im talking about? PS: game was out around/b4 Doom1... 486/386 days... [ September 03, 2003, 22:02: Message edited by: openair ] |
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Paradroid on the C64. Now that game was just too good for words.
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