I can only say this is a well deserved induction. The first game I ever ignored real life for was Civilisation and I have been a rabid fan of the series since!
The version of CP/M I used was for a Microbee, and on that machine I _NEVER_ successfully filled a 360kb disk! Granted all games came on their own disks and I never copied them off there, but the days where you could have massive numbers of (monochrome bitmap) graphics and wordstar documents on a single floppy will be missed!
The company I used to work at (a mailing house) to this day still uses DBase III+ and the DOS based Clipper language (no they haven't moved to XBase) for all their list maintenance functions. They claim all other data packages have too much overhead to use efficiently. I agree that Access would for their flat databases and cleaning up of client lists, but I would have thought using something more up-to-date would have prevented the predictable once every 2 hours crash!
"I'm gonna rip off your head and s___ down your neck" (followed not long after by him sitting on the creatures neck, trousers down reading a paper whilst whistling his own theme song... I can still hear that in my head!)
You are right, it was "Return to Zork" and IIRC his name was Booz. I also remember "I need a new battery... do you hear me, a NEW BATTERY" from the orb and the lighthouse keeper saying "Don't you give me none of those double negatives".
This leads me to believe there could be a new DDoS style attack... list some poor pleb's email address on a so called "Bulk-Mail Club" website, post it here and watch innocent./'ers kill them with every weapon (including weapons from Counterstrike?!?).
I feel I may be alone in this memory, but my first PC (Microbee 64 running CP/M) playing Hordes of the Deep Realm (aka Lode Runner clone) and a Boulderdash clone.
Not to mention in the days before the Infinity Engine, Diablo and other similar engines the greatest games, the GOLD BOX RPGs, and Bard's Tale series. (I shouldn't be alone in those fond memories).
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This explains what people mean when they say "Well I'll be a monkey's uncle" !!
Maybe nobody at NASA has fine enough stick control? I recommend a strong course of GTA: VC, GT and any other game they can find.
I still believe the best one was the "Nine Inch Nails" ammo for the Nailgun in the first Quake (boxes of nails with the NIN logo on them).
Scratching and looping? Sounds exactly like "Max Headroom" from the early 80s!
I can only say this is a well deserved induction. The first game I ever ignored real life for was Civilisation and I have been a rabid fan of the series since!
What about:
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4. Profit???
In soviet Russia circuits are on a Nanotube Transistor?
I thought the TRUE golden age would start when Duke Nukem Forever finally comes out?!?
Preview button is your friend.
I meant "LESS TIME for a sim to cook a meal...".
Maybe I should spend more time proof reading
I will second this - the time flow was a HUGE problem in The Sims. It took longer for a sim to cook a meal than it took them to process it on the loo.
No weekends, being trapped in your house except for work (as I never purchased any expansions).
I think the game had a total of 2 days fun for me, longer for my partner, but we still ended up selling it to a workmate for her kids.
So tell me - if someone later invented quantum communications, would a quantum link simultaneously be both up and dead until you observed it?
The version of CP/M I used was for a Microbee, and on that machine I _NEVER_ successfully filled a 360kb disk! Granted all games came on their own disks and I never copied them off there, but the days where you could have massive numbers of (monochrome bitmap) graphics and wordstar documents on a single floppy will be missed!
The company I used to work at (a mailing house) to this day still uses DBase III+ and the DOS based Clipper language (no they haven't moved to XBase) for all their list maintenance functions. They claim all other data packages have too much overhead to use efficiently. I agree that Access would for their flat databases and cleaning up of client lists, but I would have thought using something more up-to-date would have prevented the predictable once every 2 hours crash!
I still like (frome Duke3d):
"Nobody steals all our chicks.... and lives!"
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"I'm gonna rip off your head and s___ down your neck" (followed not long after by him sitting on the creatures neck, trousers down reading a paper whilst whistling his own theme song... I can still hear that in my head!)
You are right, it was "Return to Zork" and IIRC his name was Booz. I also remember "I need a new battery... do you hear me, a NEW BATTERY" from the orb and the lighthouse keeper saying "Don't you give me none of those double negatives".
I don't know if he _originated_ the quote, but it is used in "The Truth" by Terry Pratchett. First uttered by Lord Vetinari.
Required Evil Dead 3 quote:
"You can find it in the Sporting Goods Department... That's right, shop smart, shop S-Mart!!
Was I the only one who read "(Cth[you know the rest], Gates, Balmer)..." ??
This leads me to believe there could be a new DDoS style attack... list some poor pleb's email address on a so called "Bulk-Mail Club" website, post it here and watch innocent ./'ers kill them with every weapon (including weapons from Counterstrike?!?).
"And over here we have this SCO-water croc. Crikey it's getting a bit cranky. It doesn't like it when I poke it here. *SNAP*"
Only problem with that is I don't know who I would want to win... they both annoy me!
Do you perchance mean "Jill of the Jungle"? Another great platformer that I never played any of the sequels of.
I miss going to the local computer shop and looking excitedly for the latest $2 Shareware games on 5 1/4 (cost of the media only of course!).
I feel I may be alone in this memory, but my first PC (Microbee 64 running CP/M) playing Hordes of the Deep Realm (aka Lode Runner clone) and a Boulderdash clone.
Not to mention in the days before the Infinity Engine, Diablo and other similar engines the greatest games, the GOLD BOX RPGs, and Bard's Tale series. (I shouldn't be alone in those fond memories).