OT - What was your first TBS/War game?

Puke · #1 January 27th, 2004, 10:58 PM

Anyone remember a text based adventure game, where you played an AI? you were a large computer with artificial inteligence.

You could look around the laboratory that you were in, by interfacing with the cameras and microphones, and spy on doctors and technicians and things. that was about half the game

the other half, was inside a simulation that was being run on you. you (the AI) were a simulated man, in an artificial world. you interact with the world and go about your daily business, as the events develop and bad things start to happen to you and your family.

The goal of the game, was to decipher the purpose of the simulation, and to figure out how it related to events in the real world. It was probably one of the best text adventures ever written, but I cant think of the name of it. I didnt finish it, so I cant tell you how it ends.

Any help? Anyone remember this one?

Phoenix-D · #2 January 27th, 2004, 11:19 PM

I think that was A Mind Forever Voyaging.

Gryphin · #3 January 27th, 2004, 11:24 PM

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Really? It was actually a bit more difficult in my Version on the Atari ST (i think there were at least three iterations of the game). You actually had to have both sides withdraw all of their influence from smaller countries, stop funding other governments or insurgents, and basically mind your own business.

Yes that was harder. I just sat their and hit End Turn (or what ever it was) and would win by a small margin. I would love to see someone update it.

PvK · #4 January 28th, 2004, 01:04 AM

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Originally posted by PvK:
First? Probably Trek, on mainframe computers. Oh no! My photon torpedoes caused a stellar nova chain reaction again!

PvK

OMG, your right!
I played Star Trek, written in basic, on the offline training IC test system. The IBM PC wasn't born yet.

Yeah, it's a pretty interesting game, too, particularly the later Versions where people had modded in a lot of additional weirdness that could be discovered. Lose the Enterprise but escape, and get to take over the obsolete ship USS Faerie Queen - I remember doing that on purpose, to see what it was like. Or, push the damaged warp engines too far, enter a time warp and get sent back in time to an old game position the game secretly had saved for that purpose. Pretty clever. Oh no - the Klingon super command ship has used its long-range tractor beam to pull me across the galaxy into its sector... Tholians... Romulans...

PvK

Paul1980au · #5 January 28th, 2004, 01:08 AM

Interesting a game that learns how you play and presents a bigger challange the more games you play - could that be put into SEIV i wonder or SE5

Puke · #6 January 29th, 2004, 12:24 AM

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
I think that was A Mind Forever Voyaging.

Yes, it was! Thank you, sir!

Kamog · #7 January 29th, 2004, 09:11 AM

I played that old Star Trek game, too, but it was on the Commodore 64. That was a fun game. The program was written in BASIC. You could open the program and edit it if you wanted.

One time I shot a photon torpedo at a star base to see what would happen. The base was destroyed, and I got a message saying I was going to be court martialed. Another time, I had destroyed all the Klingon ships except for one, and I had no energy or torpedoes left, so I used the self-destruct to blow up the quadrant. Unfortunately, somehow the Klingons still won.