[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Murph:
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 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.

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?

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.

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.