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Re: Old space game

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:23:45 EDT

Masque posted : That's it.

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Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:15:51 EDT

Koil posted : Is this it?

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un ··· eo_game)

From the wiki:

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The game comes on 4 disks and included in the US$89.95 cost was two free hours a month on the Universe BBS. Upon mailing in the included warranty card, users were also mailed subsequent versions of the game on replacement disks, based on suggestions from the BBS. A review in Computer Gaming World praised this dedication to customer service.

Holy crap...That shit better have made me breakfast. I'm surprised that they were able to pull that kinda price tag.
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Re: Old space game

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:23:00 EDT

Masque posted : Okay....circa 1983....did anybody here (my age) play Universe? A very extensive game. Played the hell out of it due to the fact that a friend of mine was one of the beta testers for it.

Re: Old space game

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:15:02 EDT

tonydenton88 posted : I think it's elite... amazing game

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Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:20:15 EDT

Koil posted :

said by RavonTUS:

Greetings,

What about Tradewars 2002? That was online gaming at it's best. I'd get home from school and hook up my 300 baud modem and auto-dial my favorite BBS. The ANSI graphics were so modern. After playing my 25 turns or so, trading, travelling port to port, battling ships and buying upgrades, I'd strategize tomorrow's turn and hope for the best.

Agh, I am old!

-Ravon

Played the hell out of it...I played it at least on 4-5 boards, since you were usually limited to x amount of turns a day.
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Re: Old space game

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:21:23 EDT

RavonTUS posted : Greetings,

What about Tradewars 2002? That was online gaming at it's best. I'd get home from school and hook up my 300 baud modem and auto-dial my favorite BBS. The ANSI graphics were so modern. After playing my 25 turns or so, trading, travelling port to port, battling ships and buying upgrades, I'd strategize tomorrow's turn and hope for the best.

Agh, I am old!

-Ravon

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Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:20:13 EDT

royhandy posted : I used to play Elite on an Apple IIc. That game was a friggin' blast!

Re: Old space game

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:30:48 EDT

urbanriot posted :

said by Deo85:

When was/is the golden age of gaming?

I really feel it was the late 70's to mid 80's, when society was discovering gaming for the first time in arcades, then having them in their homes in the form of Atari 2600's, home computers and NES's.

I sit down and say 'wow' at the lush graphics I see in some of these games today, but I don't get the same high I had the first time I saw Pac Man on my home TV seemingly perfect on my Atari 800XL or the movie-like experience of Karateka or exploring Ultima 1 in '82... then a few years later Super Mario Brothers, Bionic Commando, Excite Bike, wow...

Since then we've had some serious technological changes that brought us from a couple pixelated lines representing a horizon to lush, realistic graphics; but that excitement isn't as continual now as it once was. I walk into an arcade in Japan and marvel at the crazy stuff I see around me, but I don't feel that high that I felt concerning the need to play everything I see.

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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:28:06 EDT

TigerLord posted :

said by EUS:

if memory serves, there was a button to auto harvest in HW1 if you so wished?

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It was added in Cataclysm only, and could only speed up time, not auto collect what was left.

Yeah, salvaging was cool... I hope HW3 restores that.

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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:20:15 EDT

EUS posted : Gameplay was way different. Since my favorite play was to steal ships, I feel salvage corvettes getting the bum's rush was a mistake.
The auto load out of the next chapter's enemy's fleet auto-scaling to what the player ended up with was a turn off as well.
Sometimes I actually enjoyed taking a break between scenes and letting the collectors harvest at their own speed... if memory serves, there was a button to auto harvest in HW1 if you so wished?
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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:02:36 EDT

TigerLord posted : Why? It was very similar, except resources were auto harvested at end of game.

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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:53:01 EDT

EUS posted : I'm shocked to see that you enjoyed Cataclysm & HW2 better!
I couldn't finish, couldn't even go 5 chapters with HW2, it was such a disappointing departure from HW.
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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:48:33 EDT

TigerLord posted : Homeworld is a gem of a game, Cataclysm and Homeworld 2 even more so.

Homeworld 3 is apparently in development.

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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:45:59 EDT

EUS posted : I love sins, but it is no Homeworld.
There is no z-axis in sins.
Nor is there any way for me to hide salvage corvettes far above (or below) a baited dreadnaught, then use them to steal it away (while it was busy battling the destroyers I set on it).
At one point my whole fleet was made up of stolen carriers, destroyers, dreadnaughts, crazy ion-shooting white ships.....
Good times, good times.
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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:39:50 EDT

Deo85 posted : what about sins of the solar empire? that was so fare the best rts for space games to me so fare.

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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:24:51 EDT

EUS posted : I'll admit using old as an adjective is too qualitative, that being said, to me, X3 from '05 is an old game.
So to clarify, my own opinion is that any game that came out when 4:3 monitors were the standard, and win'98/2000 were used is an old game.
I'm glad there are patches/expansions etc to bring X into the present, with all the bells and whistles that are now available, and am looking forward to the new standalone rebirth.
I wish they would do that with the original Homeworld, still the best (IMHO) rts space game ever made. Best use of the z-axis I have ever seen.
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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:09:29 EDT

footballdude posted :

said by Deo85:

When was/is the golden age of gaming?

The early 80s. Gaming was new and exciting. Every mall had an arcade and every time you went in, there was something new to play. Home gaming machines were in their infancy but those that had an atari or intellivision had a constant stream of friends coming over to play. Every little tech innovation made people marvel.

Games are certainly better now, with huge development budgets and much better tech, but there is a lot of retread material out there. The feeling of seeing something you haven't seen before is really difficult to come by these days.
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Re: Old space game

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:02:47 EDT

TigerLord posted :

said by Deo85:

wait how does one classify a "old game" when a gamer can have been playing video games as early as in the 80's some of us were born then others of us were old enough to game then... hell some of us on here can be in there 50's + and gamed back then...

I suppose if you speak of PC gaming specifically and use the birth of the 386 and 486 processors to set a beginning timeline, then you could start with DOS games as being the oldest?

I was a child when I got my first PC but Windows 3.1 wasn't out yet and I could only play games in DOS. I did have a 5.25 floppy on my first PC.

First CD Drive was such an awesome moment too.

In any case, X3 is a very modern and still new franchise since expansions are coming out every 2 years or so at the most. And now, X Rebirth is a total game redesign, and is set to go out this year.

Anyone remember playing Wing Commander III and IV? Luke Skywalker was in those games!

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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:02:10 EDT

Deo85 posted : what about the geeky artist and sound guys :P or the designers for that matter it takes a team to make a products after all the programmers seem to always be in the for front of most peoples minds on who makes a video game.

I don't know about you but seeing code wiz on by on a screen does not sound like a vary interesting game to me... Must be what "playing" the matrix would be like.

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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:59:08 EDT

TigerLord posted :

said by thefett:

how about Darkstar One?
that wasnt bad.. still have it installed in fact

Certainly wasn't bad. I enjoyed it.

It stops there :)

Re: Old space game

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:58:15 EDT

TigerLord posted :

said by EUS:

Or taping a quarter to a string, and getting many games off 1 quarter.

I always laugh when people say pirating is a modern problem to gaming. Piracy was just as popular back in the old days!

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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:50:51 EDT

Koil posted : I don't think it's really hit it yet...I don't think there has been a decline enough to look back and say that the games that are out now are worse than before...as technology has progressed, so has the industry.

I mean, I had amazing times playing my Atari 2600, NES, SNES, then onto my PC with Zork (et al), BBS Door games, Bards Tale, Kings Quest (or anything by Sierra), Single player adventure / RPG's of all kinds, and then into MMO's, etc...and that is just one niche.

Not even mentioning logic, puzzle, war, racing, turn based strat, and on and on...there is just so much that has come to be and is continuing to evolve that I don't know if we'll see a down turn in gaming any time soon, imo....is some of it crap, sure, but that is true back then, too.

It's those amazing titles that take whatever genre they're in to the next level that really keeps it going and keeps players involved.

Not to use an obvious choice, but look at Skyrim...I mean, that game just set the bar ahead for almost everything out there, and it will take some time before the 'standard' games even begin to compare at that level (if they ever do).

I think with tech, innovation and geeky gamers who become programmers, we should see the industry continue to thrive for quite some time. (I hope!)
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Re: Old space game

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:40:19 EDT

Deo85 posted : Damn we got some old gamers on these forums I completely spaced the revolution of the "pin ball" machine. So you guys that have been around sense the text game's and pinball machine fads started. What do you think about the industry and were it came from and were it seems to be going?

When was/is the golden age of gaming?

Re: Old space game

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:38:48 EDT

EUS posted : Yes, I remember when hi-tech gaming meant pumping quarters into pinball machines.
Or taping a quarter to a string, and getting many games off 1 quarter.
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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:58:18 EDT

footballdude posted :

said by Deo85:

hell some of us on here can be in there 50's + and gamed back then...

I remember playing text based Star Trek over a phone line in 1978 with a teletype machine that reprinted the entire map every time you put in your one letter command. And it was awesome.
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Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:02:47 EDT

urbanriot posted : Pong was a terrible fad. I hadn't seen it until the late 70's and it was 20 minutes of fun and then... let's go play cards.

Re: Old space game

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:56:34 EDT

Deo85 posted : wait how does one classify a "old game" when a gamer can have been playing video games as early as in the 80's some of us were born then others of us were old enough to game then... hell some of us on here can be in there 50's + and gamed back then...

I guess you could even go father then that when was "pong" released? 1972 according to wikipedia do we got any old time avid pong gamers in here? Now that is a old gamer...

Re: Old space game

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:54:16 EDT

thefett posted : how about Darkstar One?
that wasnt bad.. still have it installed in fact

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Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:24:20 EDT

TigerLord posted :

said by praetoralpha:

Ah Freelancer. Great game that.

It seems that after more than a decade, space sims (and mech games) are coming out of hibernation. Glad I supported Star Citizen.

I pledged Rear Admiral because I'm excited. Time will tell if it was a good idea.

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Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:49:26 EDT

praetoralpha posted : Ah Freelancer. Great game that.

It seems that after more than a decade, space sims (and mech games) are coming out of hibernation. Glad I supported Star Citizen.

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Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:37:24 EDT

JBear posted : Star Control 2?

»www.star-control.com/sc2/

A truly great game from what I remember

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Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:35:59 EDT

urbanriot posted : Hey, in 1984 that was a big deal!

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Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:42:21 EDT

footballdude posted : You just described Elite, which is an old C64 game. Horribly unforgiving with no story line at all, just trading and trying to dock manually while outrunning (or outgunning) pirates. There were some hidden events in the universe if you happened to stumble onto them (like tribbles invading your ship and cluttering up your screen) but it was mostly flying from one system to another loading up on goods and selling them at the next stop.
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Re: Old space game

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:44:06 EDT

urbanriot posted :

said by TigerLord:

Old is like Privateer or StarLancer or Freespace 2. Games and hardware age differently

lol that doesn't seem old to me...

Typing up the game Starfighter for my Atari 800XL from a summer issue of Compute Magazine in the early 80's and storing it on tape, that's old. Elite referenced above, also old. Wing Commander 1 on 5.25 discs (high density!), that was fairly old. Privateeer, Starlencer, etc., not that old... or maybe I'm old :D

Re: Old space game

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:56:05 EDT

TigerLord posted : Old is like Privateer or StarLancer or Freespace 2. Games and hardware age differently :)

X3 has had AP and TC in the last three years and now X:Rebirth in the next few months.

Re: Old space game

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:54:13 EDT

EUS posted : Not old?
2005 is at least a century in computer game terms.
Which would make me Methuselah, I suppose.
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Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:44:23 EDT

TigerLord posted : Privateer (Wing Commander)

It's on GOG.com

Edit: X3 isn't old... lol

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Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:38:29 EDT

urbanriot posted :

said by Marduk:

I loved Freelancer. We seriously need an update for a game just like that!

Relevant link for myself, Marduk and Carrot - »www.kickstarter.com/proj ··· angerous

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Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:50:41 EDT

urbanriot posted :

said by Carrot:

Elite

lol Elite was the first game that popped into my head too. Or Frontier : Elite II...

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Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:00:05 EDT

Marduk posted : I loved Freelancer. We seriously need an update for a game just like that!

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Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:10:15 EDT

EUS posted : Funny, old man.
I remember now why I stopped playing it, the crosshairs were leaving a burned in image on my monitor!
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Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:04:23 EDT

Koil posted : That game came out in 2005! I've got underwear older than that...I thought you were talking OLD OLD!

NOW GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!

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Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:25:17 EDT

Carrot posted : Elite

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Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:23:06 EDT

EUS posted : Hmm, the screenshots do not look familiar to me at all.
It may be x3, but I don't recall having missions. I do recall the name toucan however...
Argh, I'm gonna have to take the old hard drives out, and start searching through them.
thanks.
*Edit* It is X3, you can claim ships by ejecting into space, and going aboard.
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Re: Old space game

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:19:29 EDT

Krisnatharok posted : Sounds similar to Escape Velocity and EV: NOVA, good old Ambrosia Software shareware (but insanely good) game.

Old space game

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:13:47 EDT

EUS posted : Hope someone can help me out.
there's an old space game where you're a pilot, the universe is open, the idea is to start trade routes with ships you buy, and have to purchase equipment for so that they trade automatically.
There are free ships (3 or 4) throughout the universe, the universe is huge.
First person perspective, when you encounter a trading station you can land manually or automatically.
Name?
It's not Freelancer..
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