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

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:32:04 +0000

Can we please smush the brains of the above spammer?

By: wow gold

wow gold — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:04:10 +0000

This looks like an interesting game. It’s probably worth playing after playing World of Warcraft endlessly. I wonder if other games like the ones you’ve featured in your article is still being played by many.

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

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.