RIP: Sir-Tech, Interplay, MicroProse, Sierra

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@Hacksaw :nod:
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@Everyone posting on here :nod:

I've been sticking to the 80's and 90's mostly, but that's because i was born in 85. But i got some older stuff in line too. But for now, and even though i realize everyone on here has probably played this, I just had to put it up :)
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Someone just told me about pillars of eternity, and holy moly do i want to start that, but given my current circumstance it will have to wait. Also i won't mind having expansions or whatever available when i do finally take a stab at it.
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boom one of my faves and I just started playing the series again.. pretty cheap on Gog.com

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I recently got Wing commander 3 as a free give-away from Origin. I spent hours on that game. Love the whole series. My personal favorite was Wing Commander Armada. Playing head to head space combat before the internet was the internet. One of the great features is the ability to replace your taunts to the other player with your own personal .wav files. Taunting in Vader's voice "I have you now!" as I launch a missile at them. Too fun!!

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He's Real. He was last spotted in Finland.
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eye of the beholder.. this game started it all for me..
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Origins free game right now is Pagan Ultima 8. Looking forward to play this one again!

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Ok, throwing a few more oldies out there.

Adventure on the Atari 7800, way ahead of its time.

Sinclair Spectrum

Lords of Midnight
Doomdarks Revenge
Spy vs Spy
Elite
Rebelstar Raiders

Commodore Amiga

Ishar Series.

Happy days.
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I still have the game paddles for this
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Old 2nd grade memories of the atari 2600 *sigh*

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Friend and roommate of mine from college made a TV commercial for his store. A little off topic but still relevant.
:arrow: https://youtu.be/5JG_aFKqsy8
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Wierd i remember posting this yesterday and seeing it, but i guess the preview button had me fooled.

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this is all very distressing, all the old games and names I remember and played yet not 1 single mention of the game that started ALL of this. the first Wizardry by sir tech on the original Nintendo it started the video RPG genre. alas how soon we forget. :cry:
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lilbear68 wrote:this is all very distressing, all the old games and names I remember and played yet not 1 single mention of the game that started ALL of this. the first Wizardry by sir tech on the original Nintendo it started the video RPG genre. alas how soon we forget. :cry:
Hate to say this, but Wizardry's 1 through 5 all predate Nintendo as a company, and was actually written for the Apple (Actually in a cross platform Pascal language but since they had started in AppleBasic I'll assume they used Apple's)

I even found a version for the iPhone. :)
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and yet this insignificant detail does not address the salient point that wizardry in and of itself started the RPG genre and there was no mention of it. whether it started on the original Nintendo or on a pong screen is irrelevant
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