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What are your favorite retro PC games? (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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For me, it was the game Rocket Jockey released by Sega Soft in '96. It was perfect. The game featured a surf rock soundtrack by Dick Dale. The entire premise of the game was to ride around on rockets and using long cables to yank your opponents off theirs. Referees were also fair play. I don't think I've met anyone else who has played the game, so if you have, let me know!

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I keep playing Total Annihilation. I play it at least once a day.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Sometimes that's me an Supreme commander: forged alliance.

    You'd think I'd be better by now.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I've tried both Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation.

    I think what mostly bothers me about updated versions of the concept is that there are too many "this type of unit counters that type of unit" pairs. You'll start a campaign level, build yourself a nice mixed bag of versatile units, and then an enemy will show up with a horde of some specific unit X that completely overwhelms you, because you didn't have enough Z artillery which is like the only effective thing against X.

    I rarely had that problem in the original TA. Generally, all units are vulnerable to all other units, so you have to use geography and consistent resource-denial strategy to your advantage.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Oh heck yeah, nothing beats the original Total Annihilation. My dad would play LAN against each other and online. We would absolutely destroyed cause we sucked, but it was fun! Nothing beats picking off the enemy command with a Big Bertha!

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