Re: OT: Oldies but Goodies
I really liked Ultima VII (one of several major omissions) - it had a good storyline, lots of funny bits somewhat in the longstanding tradition of Zork, and it even looked decent (well, thats a relative measure i guess, nothing on todays games, but pretty nice)
-Actually, there's a runner for it, Exult, which runs it on any OS, and a bunch of slowdown utils to make it workable on new, too-powerful comps. Methinks me will try to dig up the old disks again. :-)
-The wizardry series, starting with Wizardry 1 ("written using all the power of the new programming language PASCAL!") - i got an apple ][e emulator just so i could play the first few after discovering the original manual tucked away in a bookcase. Then I started to port it to the TI-83 calculator, but the 3d maze wireframe took too long to render. Mebbe i should take that up again. :-)
-Wizardry 8 - newest (and Last, alas for SIR-TECH) in the series - really neat, nice 3d first person RPG, with good gameplay and character dev, a bit combat-heavy for some, but overall a great game, lotsa people play it over and over to try out different parties (or to go hardcore and beat it with 1 character rather than the usual 6, with only one savegame . . . etc. I'm still working through it my first time, I just discovered it.)
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