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!!! YESSSSSSSS Thanks for the private message because uh, I think the last time I even contemplated entering this subforum was when I almost "Let's Play"ed Wasteland in 2012 I played this on a shared public library computer as a 6-year-old (thanks for the shout-out omg) and, as ManxomeBromide pointed out in the Games Only You Liked thread, this meant I had absolutely no chance of making any progress in this game, between being a young child and playing it where obviously any save I made would quite likely be overwritten by the next time I played Oh and Spinnaker Software being a Massachusetts-based company and Metallica's debut album not even coming out until 1983 and their earlier tapes probably barely making it to the East Coast that soon... yeah even given this it was probably still that Metallica, but Tom Snyder probably did not envision the name as a reference that was going to have the same kind of name recognition years later as naming the city "Michael Jackson" Man. SMOKE STORE AUCTION I always wanted to go to the bottom and hang out there, because of course I wanted to do anything but actually play the game the right way from an early age I am pretty sure I did get kicked out of his room for waking him up too quickly and then was convinced I could not talk to him again. I have memories of this game thwarting me in so many different ways, and I have no idea why I kept coming back to it. Maybe because I could not get past the part of Grolier Software's "The Isle of Mem" where you had to name Mohammed's tribe. Ah, the Quraysh. All right, time to go see if my save is still there at the Normal Public Library Apple IIe station, which surely must still be set up, as this is 1990. Good lord Popberry Trees, the specific nostalgia from these posts is feeling to me like encountering the ruins of the progenitor race in an RPG; you knew they must exist, but you thought all these fragments would never be seen by human eyes again Oh glad that Huulk Hogaan's Popberry Rind Shoes would get some use in this game OH MY GOD THE STORE SCREEN AHHHHHHHHHHHH wow. WOW. I think I just got shivers from seeing that again. The context this should be put in is that it is a game with something resembling an economy, something resembling action gameplay, and something resembling a storyline with defined goals. Finding these things in conjunction in 1983 elsewhere seems virtually impossible. Caverns of Freitag is the only candidate that immediately comes to mind, and the action there was tile-based. Yes I am sure someone else will point out a dozen other titles but yeah, obviously I agree it is a possible ancestor of Starflight/Star Control, but if you think about it, it is also an ancestor of Ultima VIII! Oops wait. But still an astoundingly forward-looking game in some ways, since again nobody knew what was really possible so nobody knew what to limit themselves to yet
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2019 06:10 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:48 |
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This game is roughly 10x as complex as absolutely anything else available for computers at the time, how is it even real? I had a flashback from your "oops flew the wrong way with the jetpack" screen; either I or one of the random kids who was often at the library at the same time as I had the idea that there must be secrets if you flew far enough either direction on that screen. Pretty sure there are no secrets.
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2019 06:42 |
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Wow, you are clearly the ideal person to be making this thread, as you have even helped me understand nuance I never appreciated about my beloved Atari 8-bit computer (specifically why its sprites kind of sucked despite the machine being so otherwise capable) in the process.ManxomeBromide posted:... says the poster with the Wasteland avatar. Also thanks for name-checking The Gostak as looking into that has me terrified but also pleased with the game's creator. The Gostak via Wikipedia posted:At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds.
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2019 23:02 |
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I think I would have had a very "be sure to drink your Ovaltine" feeling from that climax if I had actually gotten that far as a child. But wow, am I glad to actually know what I was missing!
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# ¿ Dec 15, 2019 01:45 |