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  5. Posted

    I just had a look on YouTube; it looks like an interesting sim.

    It looks pretty light graphically. How do you rate the game overall,

    and what is it about the game that you particularly find fun or

    engaging?

    Note: All the apostrophes I typed in the message below keep disappearing. Editing to add them doesnt help. Anyway...

     

    I havent played it in a bazillion years, but in college a friend and I used to play it together collaboratively, strategizing together. We even stayed up all night playing it a few times.

     

    Ive always enjoyed simulation games, especially ones with an economic component, all the way back to my first taste with Kingdom.

     

    In fact, Nobunagas Ambition was a bit like Kingdom on steroids. The point of the game was to conquer, but you had to keep people happy and fed, too.

     

    Later I bought Romance of Three Kingdoms, which was from the same publisher, but it was a little over-complicated to me, and never saw the amount of play Nobunagas Ambition did. I think I bought a follow-on Nobunagas title later on, and didnt really play it much.

     

    Maybe it was just the right time & place for the first one, but its stuck with me as one of those titles I really enjoyed.

  6. Posted

    As you probably already know, we have a fairly well developed

    beta of this already and available source code. This is a really

    fun game and looks like it translates well on the A8's. So it's just

    waiting to be finished.

     

    Yup. And Im eagerly awaiting it!

     

     

     

    Don't we already have this on the A8's, or there's some other

    Wizard's Crown game out there?

    Youre right, we do. I even own a boxed copy! Ive just always played it on the Apple ][, and forgot all about the Atari version. Doh! :)

     

    Let me replace that with an old NES favorite of mine that was ported to many systems and computers: Nobunagas Ambition. That should be doable for the A8, I would think.

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    Was he rewriting history in his favor, or was he just telling his side of it like everyone else has been all along?

     

    As for the private jet and such, it sounds like he didn't really want to take the job and so he asked for the sun, moon, and stars. Does it make him a bad guy that Warner agreed to give it all to him? :)

  12. Posted

    That's a very good interview with Ray Kassar. Thanks for linking to it!

     

    There's no doubt Atari needed real management, and Ray brought that. His term at the top wasn't all sunshine and rainbows for everyone, but nothing ever is. There can be no doubt that he presided over the golden age. And also no doubt that it wasn't he who ruined the company.

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    Both have their uses. I prefer real hardware, and real cartridges in real boxes. But when I just want to play a game for a couple of minutes, it's more convenient to fire up an emulator. Or when I'm on the road, I'm not going to lug a 1200XL and a 1050 with me, but my computer will emulate them both pretty well these days and it's always with me anyway.

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    Is it true that "most" collections sprawl out of control?

     

    Sure, it happens, but in my experience that doesn't seem to be the case most of the time, just as most oenophiles aren't alcoholics. The people I've known who collect something -- and I've known collectors of all sorts of different things over the decades -- haven't let it take over their lives.

  22. Posted

    I remember paying more per hour of access to CompuServe than I was making at the time. I think I was making $5/hour and it was $6/hour. Something like that. This was around 1990, when I was in college. Fortunately, they had a special deal for the CB Simulator (chat room), which is where I was spending most of my time (Channel 14 represent!). It was something like $100/month for unlimited CB Simulator usage.

     

    Depending on where you were, you could tack on long-distance charges and/or a fee to a third-party service you'd dial into to get to CompuServe if they didn't have a bank of modems in your area.

     

    The good old days, when only the well-off could be online. Kept the riff-raff out! :P

     

    Later on, I migrated to GEnie, then to Delphi ($20/month with free access to the Internet, including Gopher and WAIS!).

     

    Throughout college and for several years after, I was also running a WWIVNet BBS. All the ANSI art on it was made by my then-future wife, using TheDraw.

     

    Good times.

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