I’ve had a few close calls, of course: There was this one hostile-looking Corvette a few hops away from Sol that had my name on one of its missiles … but I digress. My life is subject to the whims of whatever ill-tempered battleships or unluckily-placed pirates that happen to be around, and if I’m playing on Strict Mode (no reloading saved games), that puts me in my place pretty quickly. Space is huge in its infinite repetitive grid of black with a few stars scattered here and there in the background, and it’s doubly huge when I’m the smallest, most insignificant little blip on a radar screen that I could be. I am my own Han Solo buying low, selling high, running errands when it pays (and mining asteroids when it doesn’t), running away from pirates when I’ve got cargo to deliver and sneaking by the local authorities when my cargo is less than legitimate. I begin my space-faring career with a brand new shuttlecraft – the bottom of the totem pole – a handful of credits, and not a whole lot else. To go back and play Escape Velocity, in any of its incarnations (vanilla EV, EV: Override and EV Nova, respectively), now is like playing interstellar Grand Theft Auto, but of course, simply calling it “Game X in space” doesn’t do it justice. This one goes out to Escape Velocity, the only game I’ve ever played that made me begin to realize exactly how darn big space is. I try not to repeat myself too often, but today I’m going to tell you about another trend-setter that made its way onto the Macintosh long before anything like it was seen elsewhere. Games like X-Wing and Wing Commander and Galaga all take place in space, of course, but the, uh, size of it all, it just kind of gets lost amid the scrolling screens of enemies and gigantic battleships and Mark Hamill. At least space is pretty easy to draw.īut you know, there’s an awful lot of it. Not a bad place for a game to take place. Guns and aliens and cargo smuggling and intergalactic rebellion and all that. and enemy planets would turn red in the map screen.Space is pretty cool, I guess. There was some enemys to the east with really bad shields but excellent armor and you could conquer planets, i remember conquering earth really well. but you could buy things to add on to your ship and buy different ships and to travel to a new area you had to bring up a map and click on a little circle i also so remember there was like a star wars ad-on because i remeber dad telling me not to use the old save files because i would be in a strange area with a really fast ship, and when i say fast you would go flying across the screen. what you did was transport passangers, cargo in a certain amount of time or did missions for the army or something, im not sure it was a LONG time ago. or something like that (im not sure if they are old but i am only 15 and i played the game when i was 5 -8) its sorta like elite. Ok, this game i had A LONG time ago LOL, it was on a. And not even that, look at Wizardry 8 if you fancy graphics so much. Just look at Blades of destiny or Star Trail available on this site. Uhuh? Baldur's gate was good but not that good, and the recent Kotor is just a shade of what the good DOS games of old times were capable of. RPG are difficult to pull of on a computer and I would not know of a single one for the DOS era worthy to put on any abandonware site. Those two combined with a few others are sadly rare exceptions. Hour upon hour I slaved away behind my computer wandering around the sword coast finding my lost heratige. Gorgious graphics and even better gameplay. The Baldurs Gate came out and showed us how it was done. Up until the late nineties RPG had no place on a computer. There are of course now people who are trying to find my home adres so they can brutally murder me for saying this but I stand by my words. The graffics where always bad and the gameplay only slightly better. The problem with RPG on the computer, at least until a few years ago, was that you where better of playing them as they where ment to be played, on a table rather then on the computer. Okay it's not just a RPG and the RPG elements are not the most important of the game but still.
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