Through The Grapevine?

[Fionn]

I'm a newcomer to the SE line. I hadn't even heard of the series until about a month ago when I read something from somebody who mentioned he wasn't too excited about another game's release since he was too preoccupied with the upcoming SE4.

I noted that someplace in the back of my mind but didn't think much about it until I spotted the demo listed on GameSpot's "Newest Downloads" sidebar. I thought I'd give it a try, having nothing else to do at the moment.

In a nutshell, I'm glad I did. :-)

Anyway, I feel like I came very close to missing something extremely good here and that got me to thinking: how did other people discover the series? Through the grapevine? Friends and neighbors? Alien intervention?

IOW, how did y'all end up "in the know"?

(We'll leave "why didn't anybody tell me before now?" for another thread . . . )

[jars_u]

Well to make a long story short I found SE4 by reading a review in Computer Games Magazine (my faviorte computer games magazine) for AOA:WDK which I purchased from battlefront.com about a year ago (was originally available from that site - at the moment Combat Mission is their "big game") then when the patch/new Version came out Mike had moved over here to shrapnelgames.com which is where I first heard about SE4, having never played any of the older Versions. I played the demo to death and pre-ordered my copy. Even though I work for a major retailer of "main stream games" I tell anyone who will listen about all the smaller devlopers that I know of because I find the support and end products are usually much better.

Jim

[Master Belisarius]

I have discovered Se3 in December of 1997, in Games Domain Review (http://www.gamesdomain.com/gdreview/...egy/index.html )
They gave to SE3, the Gold Award (considering that the game was shareware).

[Paladin]

I heard about Se3 Last year (A99), when two friends, (both fellow students in physics, I'm in computer engineering ; ) were discussing about it. I didn't notice it that much at first, because the graphics seemed crude at best.
Then again, this summer I noticed the MM site showing up in my browser, so I decided to have a closer look, and I saw there was now an Se4 demo!! Back then the demo was down for refit, so I played Se3 for a while, to get the hang of it...
Since then, what's left of my spare time (total minus girlfriend, job, family obligations, friends, chores...; )

And I am glad I did too, as I try as much as possible to push the game to all my friends so that we can all go multiplayer 8*))

[Darwin]

Man,
Do I feel like the old timer here. I discovered Space Empires in August of 1995 when I bought a shareware CD. SE2 was on there and I spend hundreds of hours playing the shareware in fact the only reason I reqistered was it had a bug in it. And crash when you went into combat. (Think about this for a second. Would you ever register something that didn't work in the first place.) Don't know what possesed me to do that, but, I'm glad I did.

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Lord Darwin,
Space Empires Fan since
Space Empires 2 in 1995

[Dweeb]

I actually started out playing Space Empires 2! I don't remember how I found out about it, possible a search on a shareware site. It was the first Windows-based conquer the universe game I played. I liked it and registed it. I was impressed that Malfador mailed me a new disk when they developed a new Version. One note - a friend of mine actually prefers SE2 to SE3, although I came to believe that it was just not difficult enough to win.