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can’t remember for the life of me what the game was called, but i had my first experince of on-line gaming the other day (on a friend’s computer-mine can’t handle that sort of thing!). involved wandering around a very dark scenario trying to kill everyone else that was there. i think the longest i lasted was about 2 minutes, but there you go. 😆 loadsa fun!!
seeing as some of you peeps seem to have had more experience of this gaming lark than me, i was wondering if there were any good sci-fi games on the net? anything like the classic ‘Elite’ (about the only game i was ever any good at, apart from ‘River Raid’ 🙄 )? i need to get a new computer for my studies next year anyway, and the go i had the other day has given me a taste for games again 🙂[quote=”snooklepie”]can’t remember for the life of me what the game was called, but i had my first experince of on-line gaming the other day (on a friend’s computer-mine can’t handle that sort of thing!). involved wandering around a very dark scenario trying to kill everyone else that was there. i think the longest i lasted was about 2 minutes, but there you go. 😆 loadsa fun!!
seeing as some of you peeps seem to have had more experience of this gaming lark than me, i was wondering if there were any good sci-fi games on the net? anything like the classic ‘Elite’ (about the only game i was ever any good at, apart from ‘River Raid’ 🙄 )? i need to get a new computer for my studies next year anyway, and the go i had the other day has given me a taste for games again :)[/quote]Lol, River Raid was the best! Did you ever finish it? When I was a kid my family stayed up on New Years eve playing it, taking turns, and *supposedly* my father finished it and reached the end of the River. I still suspect he was lying 😛
Elite was also great!!! You can still play it too on Windows.
That site hosts “Abandonware” games that are no longer for sale by retail. You can get all those old games you remember there =)
My favorite all time Sci-Fi game is probably “Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic”
As for current Sci-Fi games =/ I had fun playing Bridge Commander, and I’m not really a Star Trek fan. The only other Sci-Fi game I’ve played recently is Homeworld2, which is more of a strategy game in a Sci-Fi setting. But I can’t recommend any “epic” Sci-Fi games, there just has not been any to my knowledge =( Hopefully someone else has found some gem, I could really use a good Sci-Fi game
THe official sequel to [b]Elite[/b] was [b]Frontier[/b] (and the ill-fated Frontier: First Encounters), but since that was a DOS game you’d be hard pressed to get it to run on modern computers even if you could find a copy. A more recent game of the same ilk was [b]X – Beyond the Frontier[/b] which I believe ran under Win9X and you’re probably more likely to find lying around as it’s newer.
i have actually got a copy of Frontier that i bought from a charity shop sometime ago, amd it will run (at least on my computer!(P120, Win 98SE). the manual with it is 103 pages though, and up until now(ish), i’ve never had the time to get into it. i just loaded it, and got fed up of continually crashing back into the ground about 30seconds after taking off! at least with the original Elite, i knew what i was doing (apart from docking. my main priority was trying to make enough money so i could buy a docking computer….)
as i recall of River Raid, there was some kind of competition for those who played it. if you got over 40000 points, you sent a photo of the display and you won whatever-can’t remember what now. i played that game so often, that getting less than 40000 meant i was having a bad day, and 40000 was a low score. can’t specifically remember the end of the river as such, i think the sections began repeating to a degree after a while. played it on an Atari 600XL, if you remember that computer! 😀 that must have been about 16-17 years ago….
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