 |
The Town Hall Archives
Ahh, the nostalgia.
|
| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Jared
Cute and Cuddly
Joined: 23 Nov 2002
Posts: 4672
Location: Pennsylvania
|
 Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 6:06 am Post subject: |
|
| David O wrote: | Jared, have you played any PC games at all, or do you truly despise them? You needs be must play Sim City 3000. It will (maybe) challenge you, and (fo shizzle) entertain you.
Check it out. |
I actually have played that game, believe it or not, although I cannot attest to a version number. If 3000 is relatively recent, as I would presume it to be based upon your mention of it, then I have not played that version, but back in my Macintosh days (I got rid of my last Mac in 1999 -- kept it some time after I got a Windows machine), I had the game. Last played it years before that; I'll leave it to you to discern which version it was.
[UPDATE: Well, it was a better version than this one, anyway. For one thing, the roads looked better. They were gray instead of blue. (Always good.) And they had a dashed line down the center.
Come to think of it, they had a dashed line down the center. Were all my roads going in but one direction, or could one pass on either side into oncoming traffic anytime one wished?
Perhaps this was why my cities were considered so dangerous. It was either that or the nuclear meltdowns, which occurred with alarming frequency. One Three Mile Island a week, you can live with, but when two Chernobyls happen within the span of three minutes, the easily frightened townspeople seemed to panic.]
Whatever the number, I didn't find the game interesting in the least. Click to zone something residential. Click to zone something commercial. Click to add a park or something. Try to avoid rolling brownouts. Also bizarre attacks.
You could avoid the brownouts and blackouts by giving each house its very own nuclear power plant, as I recall, but for some reason, no one ever moved in if you did so. (Don't they realize the bargain it is to be given -- GIVEN -- your own nuclear plant?)
All in all, a boring and rather unending game. Could you "win" that game? Or was it simply a matter of going as long as you could before either losing or losing interest? There was no point in the game, that I recall anyway, that it determined that your effort was good enough to merit ending the thing.
As for other games, well, I've played other games. I had a handful of games -- many of them installed from one or, in case of the really high tech stuff, two floppy disks -- on the Macs, especially in my early years of computing. When I was four through perhaps six, I believe I had some "learning" "games" (mutually exclusive words?), but I don't particularly remember their titles and don't recall considering them very game-like.
I had a few "normal" games as well, but none worth writing about -- or playing all that much. That's what you get when your game is only 950KB.
On my current computer, I have a variety of chess programs, mostly purchased for learning, not playing, purposes, but some of them have "play against the computer" modes built in, so those qualify as games. And the XBoard client I use to connect to freechess.org in the rare event that I have time to play an entire game (I think I've done this as many as three or four times this year) could certainly be called a game.
Or, if you mean real computer games, my video graphics card came with some sort of racing game, which I did try, but found dull. (What does one expect from a freebie? No doubt they included it because the CDs would all sit in warehouses otherwise.) And I was given a copy of another racing game -- called, as I recall, "Motocross Racer," -- a few years back, and it's not altogether bad, although I don't even know if I have the CD anymore.
On the other hand, I can't imagine I threw it away. Every once in a while, I look at the jumbled mess of power cords under my computer desk and it suddenly hits me that some loose item was an adaptor for something I had two Macs back. And in terms of disks, I rarely have use for the 3.5 inch floppies, so if I ever need one, I use a reformatted one that once held Mac software. I also run into really outdated CDs. "Grolier 1992," for example, a free encyclopedia program that came with either a Macintosh or with something Mac-related long ago. So I probably have the CD.
Somewhere.
If one was inclined to look hard enough, one could dig up just about anything -- outdated computer periphrials, papers printed back in 1994, the Rosetta stone -- in my room.
Not that I don't keep things neat in there. I simply ascribe to the theory that the best way to do this is to have somewhere to toss everything. In a closet, for example. And who has time to ever sort that stuff out later?
The only computer game I actually still play on occasion is a quite recent edition of the Madden NFL game. It's 2003, I believe, although, like cars, the date on such a game is rather forward-looking.
So there you have it. I'm an experienced gamer!
I can hear your responses now: what, no role playing, no big war games, no... well, nothing that would even vaguely interest all of you? Well, as for war games, don't be so sure. You may all play your "protect the world from evil forces" games, but I once had one too, even it it didn't rival your 3-CD games in terms of graphics: I once had a Mac disk that contained several programs, including a game called Missile Command, which I think comes either from Atari or from old arcade games, or perhaps both. You know. Click. Line appears. Blows up incoming lines. Also incoming dots which look vaguely like planes. Protect the world, until the enemy blows you up.
I even played it a bit.
So, you see, I am indeed an experienced gamer, as sad as it is to admit.  |
|
 |
Eugene Kendall™
The Official Town Hall Nutcase
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Posts: 3713
Location: Grandma Land!
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:31 am Post subject: |
|
| WHAT!?!?!?! no halo , no allied assualt,no mario!!!,no final fantasy,....lern to pick out...good games not those stinky ataris and those apple 2 games |
|
|
AREM
Has Learned That We Don't Accept Demands
Joined: 12 Jul 2003
Posts: 2502
Location: GONE... like frank sinatra
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:16 am Post subject: |
|
| age of empires 2 is a great game, so is the star wars version of it: Galactic Battlegrounds... Worms Armageddon is great too, as is Star WArs Jedi OUtcast, Return of the King, Episode 1 Racer ,etc. 8) |
|
|
AREM
Has Learned That We Don't Accept Demands
Joined: 12 Jul 2003
Posts: 2502
Location: GONE... like frank sinatra
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:16 am Post subject: |
|
| age of empires 2 is a great game, so is the star wars version of it: Galactic Battlegrounds... Worms Armageddon is great too, as is Star WArs Jedi OUtcast, Return of the King, Episode 1 Racer ,etc. 8) |
|
|
Ferder-
Brickfilm Maker Extraordinaire
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Posts: 1730
Location: BC, Canada
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject: |
|
| AREM wrote: | | age of empires 2 is a great game, so is the star wars version of it: Galactic Battlegrounds... Worms Armageddon is great too, as is Star WArs Jedi OUtcast, Return of the King, Episode 1 Racer ,etc. 8) |
grrrr! LucasArts is spending all their silly time making silly SW games instead of more Monkey Island games. |
|
|
-Mellow boy
Head Banger Drummer Dude
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Posts: 3123
Location: Canada BC (like you even know where that is)
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:30 pm Post subject: |
|
and sam and max  |
|
|
AREM
Has Learned That We Don't Accept Demands
Joined: 12 Jul 2003
Posts: 2502
Location: GONE... like frank sinatra
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:46 pm Post subject: |
|
| Ferder- wrote: | | AREM wrote: | | age of empires 2 is a great game, so is the star wars version of it: Galactic Battlegrounds... Worms Armageddon is great too, as is Star WArs Jedi OUtcast, Return of the King, Episode 1 Racer ,etc. 8) |
grrrr! LucasArts is spending all their silly time making silly SW games instead of more Monkey Island games. |
its because star wars games are their best sellers and always will be 8)
the games rock! you play any? |
|
|
Bmuntz
Cursor Always on Submit Button Member
Joined: 12 May 2004
Posts: 950
Location: CANADA
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:13 pm Post subject: |
|
| Age of Empires 2 is so an great game same with Ceaser 3. Also Super Smash bros. and MKDD!!. |
|
|
AREM
Has Learned That We Don't Accept Demands
Joined: 12 Jul 2003
Posts: 2502
Location: GONE... like frank sinatra
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:59 pm Post subject: |
|
what is MKDD??
double dash racing is great too 8) |
|
|
Bmuntz
Cursor Always on Submit Button Member
Joined: 12 May 2004
Posts: 950
Location: CANADA
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 2:05 pm Post subject: |
|
| Mario kart double dask or MKDD or is this more of your sarcasm. |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group
|
Search
Memberlist
Log in