How old are Dom2 players?

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by HotNifeThruButr:
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.

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.

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

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.

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

[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.

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Taqwus:
*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...

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.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Cainehill:
I thought that Temple of Apshai sucked, personally... Telengard was better. But ... cartridge games for the C64?

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.

A roommate had the C64 - something like 15 minutes to load Apshai from cassette tape.

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.

[mikegamer]

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.

[mikegamer]

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

[Zapmeister]

Age and trechery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm

But treachery and spelling nazism will always overcome age and trechery