Comments on: Gaming Made Me, #2 – Alec’s Meeriad Influences

By: Marcin

Marcin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:19:10 +0000

Wow, Gobliins. That’s probably the only adventure/puzzle game I actually made progress in. Haven’t even thought of it in AGES … it actually had some halfway decent sound effects, I think? It’s probably better I don’t try to track down an emulated copy and let it live on in nostalgia.

By: bonuswavepilot

bonuswavepilot — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:41:37 +0000

Oh! Oh! Scorched earth! I’ve been moved to comment (uninformatively) by pretty much all of the articles in this series, marvellous stuff.
I specialised in playing the psychological game – stocking up on dirtballs and seeing how many rounds of being buried it would take my mates to actually become apoplectic.
Good times.

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:01:17 +0000

The…. the yellow house exists? [My world collapses].

By: fgbfdg

fgbfdg — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:59:26 +0000

Yeah what’s funny is that there actually IS a special version of Dune II, mentioned above, with a yellow camp among other things.

Dune II, I think it’s the first game I played, and probably turned me into the nerd I am today.

By: Pestilence

Pestilence — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:08:15 +0000

oh for shame!

By: Pestilence

Pestilence — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:07:30 +0000

XCom and Dune 2 left have left a warm place in my heart.

Has anyone tried Super Dune 2? Its a hack/mod for Dune 2 http://www.cdosabandonware.com/std_games_details.php?gameid=1143" here.

It changes the playable sides to sard, fremen and mercs. Might be fun for kicks.

By: Bret

Bret — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:47:56 +0000

I didn’t get one in my first playthrough, and paranoia meant game 2′s Muton invasion was a shooting gallery. I love the flying suit combined with the lifts.

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:42:59 +0000

Aye, I used to be delighted upon a base invasion in X-COM. “I get to see my own stuff!”

By: ascagnel

ascagnel — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:19:27 +0000

EyeMessiah: When I picked up XCOM off Steam, I had the same experience. On a laptop. In the middle of class. Oops.

… the professor almost threw me out of the lecture.

By: Mika

Mika — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:04:45 +0000

Legends of Valour was garbage even back in the day. Only decent thing was the graphics where it did a few neat tricks.

By: EyeMessiah

EyeMessiah — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:02:22 +0000

Also, the first time I got base invaded in XCOM exploded my world (I certainly did not read the manual, so did not see it comming). I was completely amazed that I was getting to run about in my poorly constructed base, getting massacred by aliens, seeing it *from the inside*. Its hard to express.

I really wanted to tell someone — anyone, but I quickly realised that the adults in my home couldn’t possibly comprehend the awesomeness of what was happening – I doubted that they’d even be able to parse the graphics. My younger brother would understand in a few years, but at this point he didn’t even have a PC!

Anyway it was a great, and rare moment when a game truly exceeded my expectations.

By: EyeMessiah

EyeMessiah — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:45:31 +0000

“FUCK OFF SYNDICATE!” And then quickly turning off the monitor when my parents came in to find me busily doing revision and not cursing some mysterious cartel at all. Monitor switching off was never particularly confidence inspiring solution though. I lived in perpetual fear of my parents realising that the monitor being black didn’t mean that there wasn’t anything there. I remember a few, painful, progress erasing reflexive reboots too…

Kids have it too easy these days with all their alt-tabbing!