OT: Any One Remember

[Atrocities]

Does any one remember the web browser based game called Planetarian or something like that?

It was one of those web based games that you joined and played 3 month rounds in. I gave up on it back in 2001 when I was told by one of the long standing players that the game was rigged and cheating was rampant. (Very discouraging.)

But recently I ran across an old friend on line, purely by accident, who used to play Planetarian and Earth 2025 with me. It brought back some interesting memories.

At lot has happened since 2001. I guess when you have no life, you have no life so the years just whiz buy. I find myself up at 3 am this morning because I cannot sleep and am a bit down about things. I miss many of the older games that I used to play. Every now and again I install one and play it for a while. Right now I am playing TRIBES again and for the most part having a good time of it.

I am thinking about installing UNREAL and playing co-op with my nephews. Too bad Jedi doesn't allow co-op games like the old Quake II series did.

When I think about the time that I have spent playing SE IV, I get a bit sick. I have been playing this game since August 2000 when the demo was released. Since that time many things have changed in my life, but the game, the game has remained. I often wonder if it is the game that I should blame for how my life has gone? I do wonder about it and many other things as I sit here posting my God only knows what number post in these forums.

I look back over the last decade and in that time I have seen the coming and going of so many things. From TV shows that I enjoyed watching weekly, now a DVD collection on my shelf, to the development and advancement of PC's and technology. Hell I remember my first PC, an ACER P75 with a whopping 850 meg hard drive and 4mg ram. That was way back in 1995. I can remember when 3dFx was the video card that dreams were made of and the names of great game companies that no longer exsist; Interplay, Dynamix, Microprose, and so many more.

Today I recieved a news letter from Shrapnel Games. At first I thought it is said FAG, but then I realized that I had misread it. Imagine my embarassament. As I read the news letter my sense of nastalga (sp) just grew. Perhaps I am being a bit more emotional because of my cold, the medication, or even lack of sleep. I simply don't know.

One thing is for certain, my fingers hurt from playing TRIBES, my mind continues to wonders about new and interesting ways to make SE IV and now SE V better, and about those kind of things that ones mind conjures up at 3am in the morning regarding what may or may not come with the future.

Simply put I am dog tired and just felt like typing for a bit as I ware myself down and try to fall asleep.

Any who, I will most likely read this tomorrow, blush red and delete it. So enjoy it while you can.

[Xrati]

Leave it posted. Just as random thoughts hit you, they come and go. The words on paper will always be there. So I say "Let It Stay" and let people know where you came from.

[AngleWyrm]

I remember playing Starfleet Command I with a friend, and having a really good time. He was better at playing, but I was better at inventing tactics. We made a good team.

History is a valuable thing. Craigslist has become worthless as a forum due to censorship. Better to keep it all, as it has the elusive character of humanity. The good kind, that is so hard to find.

Hope that cold runs out soon.

[Makinus]

Your post made me remember my Stars! e-mail games... i never won a single game (i was that bad!) but i spent hundreds of hours playing it and having lots of fun....

I don´t consider it a waste of my time, since it helped me to develop strategy and planning, beyond exercizing (dos this word exists?) my mind...

My wife says i spend too much time at the computer, and i think thatm, in a way, she is right, but the computer (and literature) is my way of discharging my daily stresses and everyone knows me for a very calm and centered person, especially at court (i´m a lawyer), and i think my use of computer and my reading are the main things that allow me to reach my "inner peace" and to not become nervous in stressing situations...

So, while my wife is right that i spend too much time at the computer (and reading), i agree that, as a hobby, it consumes too much of my time, but that it´s not only a hobby, but a way of "centering" myself and, as such, is not excessive or a waste of time...

Just some rambles after a exaustive court session where i won (i think) because the other lawyer was too nervous to do a good defense (she was extremely nervous and upset, and forgot to point some issues that i would have pointed to the judge if i was in her place) and i showed to the judge all my clients proofs in a calm and patient manner...

[StarShadow]

I remember my very first computer, it was a Vic-20 and it had a whole 3k of ram. Didn't take me very long to fill it up. My first IBM-clone was an 8088 PC-XT with a 20Meg HD and 1Meg of memory with a green monochrome monitor.

[Makinus]

My first computer was a 286 with 20mb HD, 640kb Ram and a CGA (4 colors) monitor...

I still remember the long nights on GP1, Prince of Persia and Simcity...

[PvK]

Atari 1200XL. 64MB RAM. Action games that are still better than most modern action games, if you don't count the graphics.

[Ludd]

My first was an Apple IIc. 1mb ram, floppy drive only and monochrome monitor.

The games for it were great though. War In Russia by Gary Grigsby being my favourite.

My first game for it was all text with a map and counters provided. I think it was called Waterloo. Strange game.

[capnq]

I got started with home computers rather late, with a used Amiga 500 that was four years old when I got it. One of the games that came with it was Reach for the Stars (3rd ed. by SSG); I think that was my first 4X title.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Vic-20. I still remember a game where you had to steal (Gold, I think) from a witches house and avoid her cats. Or one that was a collapsing mine-maze or a star wars trench run game...Games that came as basic programs in computer magazines...