Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: TangoBakerWizardry on an Apple II was pretty much my first PC game. That and the original flight simulator.

I remember some other game about a space fleet moving around a galaxy and assaulting planets where you had to decide how many resources you had to allocate for air battles and then for the ground assault, but that may just have been something someone wrote.

I think the game you're refering to is X-Com: UFO defense/UFO: Enemy Unknown.

Also I'm gonna be a frustrating nitpick.
The original flight simulator and Wizardry were also something someone wrote.

Sounds more like Galactic Empire or perhaps Imperium.

Wow, I think it was Galactic Empire. In my mind, it was always associated with Battlestar Galactica and I see on the Wiki page that the homeworld was named "Galactica" I've been looking for it on and off for years. Thanks. Now I've got to find a copy and see that really is it.

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: TangoBakerWizardry on an Apple II was pretty much my first PC game. That and the original flight simulator.

I remember some other game about a space fleet moving around a galaxy and assaulting planets where you had to decide how many resources you had to allocate for air battles and then for the ground assault, but that may just have been something someone wrote.

I think the game you're refering to is X-Com: UFO defense/UFO: Enemy Unknown.

Also I'm gonna be a frustrating nitpick.
The original flight simulator and Wizardry were also something someone wrote.

Yes, technically true, which we all know is the best kind of true. I actually meant someone in the same computer lab or who shared the same system on a regular basis. Before PCs, you would occasionally find something on the mainframe, have no idea where it came from and find it was someone's pet project.

And this was long before X-Com. It would have been '82 or '83, and was mostly text based. The disposition of your forces was presented in boxes around the screen and you could recruit from the worlds you had conquered to replace losses. Aside from that, the only other thing I remember is that there was a planet named "Alhambra" or something similar. I've searched for it for years and never found anything about it but there was a lot of stuff from back then that is essentially lost.

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Wizardry on an Apple II was pretty much my first PC game. That and the original flight simulator.

I remember some other game about a space fleet moving around a galaxy and assaulting planets where you had to decide how many resources you had to allocate for air battles and then for the ground assault, but that may just have been something someone wrote.

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Marvel's Midnight Suns

Because there's a game that everyone's dying to get their hands on. C'mon guys, at this point, you should be paying people to play midnight suns.

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Quoting: Th3_Fr1ng3What would be an epic move, is when you could launch your games by using this game. This would be pretty meta.

If you pick up the game box and open it, you get an option to start the game from there. What I haven't found is how to delete the starter desk.

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Not going to lie, that was an awesome trailer.

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The "creative" part of their name is becoming increasingly less relevant.

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I've been using Intel for 30 years and I've bought my last anything from them.

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I'm just hoping it's a better remaster than the execrable Space Marine master crafted edition.

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So I installed it, set it up and spent the last few hours grinning like an idiot.

Only problem I've found so far is that my lasers don't make sound. I can hear music and tie fighters roaring by but no sound from my weapons. Textures seem sort of washed out but other than that, I'm impressed.

Edit- seems the audio issue only happens when playing the classic version.

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