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LOL. You're right: every time I see it, I think Count Duckula.

I liked this when I was 12-- HBO used to show it all the time:
"A pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neuralink."

1984-- a very good year-- Macintosh first appeared, Firefox on HBO, and Airwolf on CBS. Best... tv show theme... ever.

Welcome to the reason why I've given up writing free software in my spare time.

Sorry, but if your hobby can't survive the least criticism, maybe you do seriously need to reevaluate it.

I tell you, my hat's off to those programmers who keep going in the midst of what all-too-often seems like a huge population of spoiled brats.

Oh, purlease. This is like me, a writer, saying "I tell you, my hat is off to those writers who keep going with their attempts to rewrite Moby Dick in l33t-speak." If you think what you are doing is great, at least have the courage of your convictions.

And I'll tell you, one of the reasons why you don't see more innovation in the free software world is because of idiots like yourself who would rather bitch about what is out there that they don't like, rather than put a little effort into finding a game they might like and helping them out, even if it's only testing builds.

Someone has already what-the-fucked this sentence, but I'll reiterate. What does criticising a clone of a 13-year old game have to do with stifling creativity? In my mind, it's the exact opposite. What next - should we start praising a Linux version of "Horace Goes Skiing" for the sake of it?

Want original games? Here's a starter's list: Wesnoth, Worldforge, XConq, Holotz's Castle, Glest, S.C.O.U.R.G.E., Cube, Gate 88, Globulation, Adonthell... oh, who am I kidding? If you weren't willing to look before, you're probably not going to now. That's not even including the really neat ones that are in development right now.

I'm sure there are neat open-source games out there. But we're talking about Freeciv here I thought.

P.

You're thinking of Spitting Image. The famous "I'm an actor" sketch can be found here: http://www.80snostalgia.com/classictv/spittingimag e/movies.html

Here's a group of them out on patrol.

I find Family Guy to be way overrated. Its like Simpsons, but on speed or something. Once in a while, its funny, but they really over do it.

Family guy
Wait Till your father gets home

I have to admit... I was first turned off from Family Guy because I found it to be very similar to "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home". In fact i'm still convienced that the characters were modeled after this little known Hanna Barbera cartoon. The "why me" father figure... the brain damaged son with bad hair... the wife that puts everything into perspective... the daughter who's obsessed with losing weight... and the child/baby who's plotting for money/world domination. It grows on you and you accept the fact that it's just a very good parity of the old great family comedies like "All in the family" and "Happy Days". It makes you sit back and smile and question whether or not television has improved over the past 30 years.

Wanna see a Robosapian program then ride a Big Trak into a big line of plastic, green army men?

It's such a nostaligic cornucopia!!

Just me, huh?

and if i you can find them. Call the A-team.

We have all heard of those "One For All" remote controls. Well if you need all these different devices to use it ; isnt it more of a "All For One" system?

For some reason I'm thinking of the Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds

See? I can play Shakespeare:

To be or Not to be, that...
that is illogical Captain!

why re-invent the wheel?

Horace Goes Skiing was loads of fun!

"A supersonic helicopter anyone?"

You mean like this one? :)

Here's another example

i dont think you really want MCP on your computer

do you?

Ask for it by name, dude. What you are really asking for is a time machine ;)

I was just about to suggest Driller, but it seems to be just a different name for the one you suggested! According to this article it came out in 1987. IIRC it was released for Spectrum/AmstradCPC/C64, and I've a vague memory there was even an early PC version.

It used solid 3D, was first-person perspective, and you did have a laser to shoot with, so it seems a valid candidate for first ever FPS.

Can anyone better that?

Crackerjack was a UK kids TV pantomime/game show.

It was introduced whit: "It's friday, it`s 5 to 5, it's CRACKERJACK !"

The prizes were pretty crap - you could win a cabbage, or a crackerjack pencil. Later I guess they must have gotten a budget and you could win a crackerjack pen.

One of the things the show had, was that anytime any of the hosts said the word "crackerjack" the audience would yell out "crackerjack" really loudly.

It was a very strange show.

Heres a short clip