civ1 was not perfect either

[Zoid]

Bah, I remember back in my youth when we had to make our own games with a slab of rock and a chisel. Damn spoiled punk kids today have it all to easy...

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Dr Zoidberg
Bah, I remember back in my youth when we had to make our own games with a slab of rock and a chisel. Damn spoiled punk kids today have it all to easy...

Luxury.

When I were young - we used to 'ave to make our OWN rock. And chisel.

[DrSpike]

You had a chisel? That's luxury.

Edit: damn, too slow.

[DrSpike]

AND:

I had to get up at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our mother and father would kill us and dance on our graves singing Halleluja.

[Zoid]

But when you try to tell the young people about this today, they don´t belive you.

[Enigma_Nova]

Thread Delivers.

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by DrSpike
AND:

I had to get up at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our mother and father would kill us and dance on our graves singing Halleluja.

Bah! Bragger!

Anyhow, if this should turn out to be true, I'm glad it's past.

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Combat was minimal unless you played the Evil Spanish until the dust up with the Even More Evil home country at the end. Actually I only played the British so I never got to try the other three.

The Dutch were the Colonization powerhouses- with a stable economy, you could buy all the specialists/ships/weapons you needed...

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Rommel2D

The Dutch were the Colonization powerhouses- with a stable economy, you could buy all the specialists/ships/weapons you needed...

Ah. I just remember seeing them starting on all the fiddly islands and often had the most aggressive natives to deal with, ISTR. Now I really want to dig it out - and an old PC to play it on I expect.

[Nikolai]

It works on my XP machine.

[Zoid]

I bought Alpha Centauri today (for the third time I might add ) The moral of the story is: don´t lose or sell games you might want play later on

[DrSpike]

I have boxes full of Spectrum and Amiga games at my mum's house.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by DrSpike
I have boxes full of Spectrum and Amiga games at my mum's house.

Your mum is very generous with her attic-space, then.

I had to throw out all my ZX81, Spectrum, Oric, Sharp MZ80K, Atari ST stuff long ago.

[Zoid]

I had the Philips Videopac G7000 with a bunch of cartridges, but I don´t know where it went. It was probably thrown in the bin My gran has a Pong game in her attic though, I must take it home before that one disappears also...

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


Your mum is very generous with her attic-space, then.

I had to throw out all my ZX81, Spectrum, Oric, Sharp MZ80K, Atari ST stuff long ago.

Alas, your mum training skills are clearing lacking.