Dominions clone ?

[sansanjuan]

Gandalf Parker said:

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]

Gandalf Parker said:
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]

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]

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]

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]

JimMorrison said:
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.

[Gandalf Parker]

Heehee. Im really very good at google.
Apparently it might have been the first
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_based_games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29

and a site of other text games including links to playing them online. Oh the nostalgia!
http://www.ascii-world.com/ascii-tex...lated-websites

Gandalf Parker
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ASCII me no questions and I will ANSI you no lies.

[JimMorrison]

Well hot damn, I didn't know that the Wumpus wasn't an original creation of Dan Bunten.

Everything sure has changed in the last 20-30 years..... Everything was so exciting and new then, games didn't have to be good, they were more a springboard for imagination than anything else. I think that's why we love Dom3 so much in particular, because it's such a deeply interesting game, but without all of the frills of a mainstream studio title, it can still touch that part of us.


And I remember that Star Trek game actually. I didn't think it would be the same one, but I had a copy of the BASIC 2.0 port, with a manual run off of a dot matrix printer, it was as thick as a magazine and so much fun to reference, with the accordion folding.