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That's why I like retro games sometimes. The only people talking about some obscure game I got running on a Windows 3.1 emulator on top of DOSBOX are other oldies like me that are like "hell yeah that game was fun."
The outrage pornographers are such miserable creatures, slouching from one rant to the next on a never ending journey of being unhappy about a hobby. like take up whittling or something, goddamn.
fuck yes, i love retro games since there's no hype cycle to affect my thoughts, and they come on discs or carts so i can hold them, and my poor little PSX whines every time it spins the CD (also it hates burned games lol for some reason, despite my buying it from the retro games shop with a modchip in it that they "found accidentally")
Exactly! It's not part of the hype cycle. You said it perfectly. It's on my time and at my discretion. Exactly the way I want to spend my leisure time.
totes! what are you playing lately? @[email protected] convinced me to try tactics ogre since i like stragedy games
Been playing an old Roguelite called Castle of the Winds from 1989, it's got many of the classic Roguelike features you might expect but it's a bit more casual friendly with mouse support, a save/reload feature and tile based graphics instead of ASCII. It's a lot of fun.
I LOVE THAY GAME OMG
I spent so many dumb hours in that game when I was tiny, the tiles were pretty great. I can still remember the layout of the first floor with the single dumb kobold lol.
I think I was finally about to beat it at one point and nicked the second game but I dont remember that as much.
I remember being endlessly fascinated with the textures of the money and all the different armours, and I love paper doll games because of this game. The colours were magnificent too lol, that shade of cyan for the floors is burned into my brain.
Edit: I never did figure out how the church spells worked in the town
Me too! So many hours as a kid spent exploring the dungeons using the light spell to turn everything cyan. It's been a trip playing it as an adult. I actually know which stats to boost on character creation instead of "maximum strength because I am a big tough guy and I don't know what dexterity means."
haha oh man the character creation was so win 3.11core i loved the sliders - there weren't even numbers, right?
You're right no numbers, just gotta guesstimate with your eyeballs. Perfect for a kid with zero idea what the fuck they are doing lmao
I couldn't get it to work exactly how I wanted it (so opted for a version i run from my drive) but here's a browser version if you want to take a quick step down memory lane: https://archive.org/details/win3_CasWin1
DM me and later on when I get home I'll send you a link to the emulator version I'm using that you can have on your hard drive that runs via a single batch file, it has both parts 1 and 2
lol yep i set them randomly each time! totally clueless, oh man i'll check the link out tonight, thanks!
oh, sick, would love that, would work with Wine you think?
The game I've been playing the most lately is Flicky for the Genesis lol. I cant get enough of it and its endless so.
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