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Discovered an abandonware copy of Seven Cities of Gold. It's a DOS version that's different from my old C-64 copy, but it's familiar enough. My goal is to prove to B that Europeans had no choice but murder native peoples. :shifty:
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http://www.polygon.com/2016/8/8/1240527 ... ne-archive

AAAUGH! Sonofabitch! Why didn't I hear about this when it was still up?!?! I lost all 6 years of tattered issues from my subscription a decade ago. :angry:

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Anyone play Rocket League?

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I randomly thought about this game this morning. Think it was from around 1995. It was creepy as hell - weird stop motion animation. Story was based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The characters looked like they were modeled in clay - weird, exaggerated features. William S. Burroughs did a large chunk of the voice work. Thomas Dolby did the music. It was one of those games that came and went without much notice - not sure how I even picked it up. Probably just happened upon it while browsing the racks at Best Buy. I think I still have it packed away.
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WestwayKid wrote:
07 Feb 2019, 9:17am
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I randomly thought about this game this morning. Think it was from around 1995. It was creepy as hell - weird stop motion animation. Story was based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The characters looked like they were modeled in clay - weird, exaggerated features. William S. Burroughs did a large chunk of the voice work. Thomas Dolby did the music. It was one of those games that came and went without much notice - not sure how I even picked it up. Probably just happened upon it while browsing the racks at Best Buy. I think I still have it packed away.
Wow, had no idea Burroughs did vo work for computer games. Should have arranged a heavily licensed rifle range simulator. Billy Burroughs' William Tell Overture, with his grinning face on the cover, as he gives a thumbs up.
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Silent Majority wrote:
07 Feb 2019, 4:02pm
WestwayKid wrote:
07 Feb 2019, 9:17am
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I randomly thought about this game this morning. Think it was from around 1995. It was creepy as hell - weird stop motion animation. Story was based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The characters looked like they were modeled in clay - weird, exaggerated features. William S. Burroughs did a large chunk of the voice work. Thomas Dolby did the music. It was one of those games that came and went without much notice - not sure how I even picked it up. Probably just happened upon it while browsing the racks at Best Buy. I think I still have it packed away.
Wow, had no idea Burroughs did vo work for computer games. Should have arranged a heavily licensed rifle range simulator. Billy Burroughs' William Tell Overture, with his grinning face on the cover, as he gives a thumbs up.
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"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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I had to share this with my group at work.
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Kory wrote:
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I had to share this with my group at work.
It's the kind of headline that would get me to pay for a newspaper.
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Folks, Return To Monkey Island is so, so goooooooooooooooooooooooood.
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Flex wrote:
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Folks, Return To Monkey Island is so, so goooooooooooooooooooooooood.
Ah man, thinking about playing the first two games again then this.
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Flex wrote:
21 Sep 2022, 3:54pm
Folks, Return To Monkey Island is so, so goooooooooooooooooooooooood.
When I saw "Vintage Videogaming" my first thought was that I wanted to post something about Monkey Island!? I loved, loved, loved those games back in the day. I have not yet played Return to Monkey Island, but it's on my to do list. LucasArts had some of the best games ever: Monkey Island series, Loom, The Dig, Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones, Full Throttle. I think most are still available on Steam.
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Centipede and millipede here!
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung

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Sparky wrote:
22 Sep 2022, 9:36am
Centipede and millipede here!
Ugh, I hated those games with the track ball in the arcade (Pole Position had that, too, I think). You ended up scraping skin off the palm of your hand.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
22 Sep 2022, 9:41am
Sparky wrote:
22 Sep 2022, 9:36am
Centipede and millipede here!
Ugh, I hated those games with the track ball in the arcade (Pole Position had that, too, I think). You ended up scraping skin off the palm of your hand.
It’s actually much better on a PC using a mouse, more control IMO.
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung

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