Dominions clone ?

JimMorrison · #1 June 10th, 2008, 07:45 AM

VI?

Ultima III and Phantasie got me started..... not long after you were born.

Gandalf Parker · #2 June 10th, 2008, 10:32 AM

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JimMorrison said:
VI?

Ultima III and Phantasie got me started..... not long after you were born.

Heehee. And Im older than vitual dirt. Literally. I got hooked on text mode. Before there were screens.

llamabeast · #3 June 10th, 2008, 10:40 AM

Aaah! Yes, I meant necromancy!

Morkilus · #4 June 10th, 2008, 01:01 PM

Is this the nostalgia thread? Sweet, I can make my 1000th post here. I've been here something like 4 years! (Internet for 15)

This board is great, by the way. I think of it as the cream of the strategy crop. I just wish I was better at Dominions so I could feel more like a peer and less like a peon

sansanjuan · #5 June 10th, 2008, 01:27 PM

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Gandalf Parker said:

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JimMorrison said:
VI?

Ultima III and Phantasie got me started..... not long after you were born.

Heehee. And Im older than vitual dirt. Literally. I got hooked on text mode. Before there were screens.

Me too. First "Adventure" (remember go east,go west) and then... ZORK!
-SSJ

JimMorrison · #6 June 10th, 2008, 03:56 PM

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Heehee. And Im older than vitual dirt. Literally. I got hooked on text mode. Before there were screens.

You played games with punch cards? <3

And yeah, I played Adventure, and Pirate's Cove, on VIC-20 cassette, we were so excited when we finally got them on cartridges.

Gandalf Parker · #7 June 10th, 2008, 04:00 PM

Actually yes I had alot of experience with punch cards. But I meant the old star trek game on the mainframes where you had to print the screen each turn. Yeah had the Vic-20 cassette, and the Pet 2000 before that.

MaxWilson · #8 June 10th, 2008, 04:04 PM

I see I'm a young punk here. I first got involved with computers by going through the APTs (Advanced Playing Techniques) in my dad's Computist magazines to find out the right bytes to hex-edit to give Conan the Barbarian infinite lives and hatchets, in the Apple IIe game by the same name. From the sound of things that's probably after all the rest of you had gotten rich off the microcomputer boom and retired.

-Max

JimMorrison · #9 June 10th, 2008, 04:19 PM

No way Max, we were all too busy playing adventure games.

My dad had a subscription to Compute's Gazette, the magazine that had a game in the back of every issue, listed out in assembly language. He would program them all in, and modify them for game speed issues or to add little features he thought would make them more interesting. I'm pretty good with numbers, but looking at assembly language makes me want to curl into the fetal position.....

In your estimation Gandalf, would Star Trek possibly be the first pop fiction to have an actual game based on it? That would be an interesting bit of trivia to throw at people. People who care anyways, wish there were more of us. <.<

Gandalf Parker · #10 June 10th, 2008, 04:31 PM

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In your estimation Gandalf, would Star Trek possibly be the first pop fiction to have an actual game based on it? That would be an interesting bit of trivia to throw at people. People who care anyways, wish there were more of us. <.<

Probably not. The first one usually sucks more. Star Trek I remember playing so much that I got in trouble for it. And so much that I can see the screens in my minds eye even now. I think I even remember most of the commands.