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We could do with some of those asteroid impacts (random) to liven up the colonisation feature. Imagine you've just built a planet port and you get the message that your station has a 99% chance of getting hit!....there'd be enough salt from some players to introduce seas (water features) on some of the inhabited atmos planets.

Jack

If that means we finally get landable water worlds (the skiis on my Mandalay are calling for it!), then let it be so…!

 

[CMDR Lefty Jackson]

same has always supporting the squadron with base buildings ,and restarting the second system. this time a planet version.(tourist board).although they not going to see much , no planet bases there yet,

also still celebrating my 60th

Happy Bday!

And yes, welcome to the 60 Club.

At 62, I'm amazed at the number of gamers in this age group. It's a good thing to see. We basically were the first gamers starting WAY back in the 80's. Some of us even were playing D&D when it was still on paper. I first played it back in 82-83. And we played video games at the local game arcades. I remember when Dragon's Lair was released in 83. A cabinet arcade game, on LaserDisc.

What a long strange trip it's been!

 

[Dormant account - pls delete]

D&D came up in a Elite Discord the other day. And yes, my social life in 1985 was friend's house for D&D, my house for Elite.

 

[AngryAntz]

Happy Bday!

And yes, welcome to the 60 Club.

At 62, I'm amazed at the number of gamers in this age group. It's a good thing to see. We basically were the first gamers starting WAY back in the 80's. Some of us even were playing D&D when it was still on paper. I first played it back in 82-83. And we played video games at the local game arcades. I remember when Dragon's Lair was released in 83. A cabinet arcade game, on LaserDisc.

What a long strange trip it's been!

Thanks for the reminder... My first game was pong.

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

ditto D&D....... space invaders galaxian missile command asteroids have them all on mame for occasional retro trip
my ship in game voice is very much akin to metal mickey and twiki
from the first red display digital watches i was kinda hooked and somehow knew this day would come
(yep had a bineatone pong)
i can honestly say i have always been a big kid and wanted to be one at a very early age striving to be a "big boy now"
oddly i have memories of being 5 years of age and can recall certain days quite well for eg i stayed up with dad glued to the bw for the lunar landings
mum saying "dont sit too close youll go blind" (i was always allowed to watch the sky at night with sir pat)
i think i learned more from the open university on telly than i did in school in those days tbh)

 

[0threeleven]

I remember when Dragon's Lair was released in 83. A cabinet arcade game, on LaserDisc.

What a long strange trip it's been!

I pumped many a quarter into the machine playing that game, the character's name (hero), was Dirk the Daring iirc.

I remember that little bar distinctly in Malibu, Ca. when I was stationed at Camp Pendleton.

 

[aRJay]

same has always supporting the squadron with base buildings ,and restarting the second system. this time a planet version.(tourist board).although they not going to see much , no planet bases there yet,

also still celebrating my 60th

Happy Birthday youngster!
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[Codger]

also still celebrating my 60th

Buncha whippersnappers in this thread!

(Happy Birthday)

 

[AngryAntz]

It was amazing how immersive those games were, the youngen's complain that a fully rendered game isn't "immersive" enough, when I used to get fully immersed in Zork, nothing but white writing on a black background.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

It was amazing how immersive those games were, the youngen's complain that a fully rendered game isn't "immersive" enough, when I used to get fully immersed in Zork, nothing but white writing on a black background.

It was a completely different time. We had learned to use our imagination from reading books and having to make do with what we had as little kids.
My first contact with computerized gaming was in the 80s, when I visited my uncle who had a NES and a giant TV. Castlevania looked stunning on that thing.
Later, I would encounter an arcade cabinet. I don't remember the game(s) we played there, but it was some fun after school.
But it would take me until the early 90s, when I already was an adult, to buy a SNES. Two games from that era have a warm place in my heart: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Terranigma. I'll stop here, as I could go on for some time, but I need a nap.

 

[K Olley]

While you are talking about old times, yesterday I made myself some flying saucers.

When I cleared out my dads place a couple of years ago I found hiding in the kitchen a Tempo Taste-T-Toast, one of the original toasted sandwich makers. I remember my mother using this in the kitchen stove to make cheese filled (or if we were very lucky ham and cheese) flying saucers for our tea.

Although I do not have access to an open fire it still works perfectly on a gas stove apart from upsetting the fire alarm

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

we imagined the rest having grown up with books like EE doc smiths classic lensmen series TAT spaceship books forever war etc
elite 84 i i was in that game immersed proper let me tell ya................
D&D imagination came as standard requirement at least the magic roundabout was intelligible and not the telly tubbies as for the humor of basil brush original side spliting

 

[AngryAntz]

It was a completely different time. We had learned to use our imagination from reading books and having to make do with what we had as little kids.
My first contact with computerized gaming was in the 80s, when I visited my uncle who had a NES and a giant TV. Castlevania looked stunning on that thing.
Later, I would encounter an arcade cabinet. I don't remember the game(s) we played there, but it was some fun after school.
But it would take me until the early 90s, when I already was an adult, to buy a SNES. Two games from that era have a warm place in my heart: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Terranigma. I'll stop here, as I could go on for some time, but I need a nap.

Young ones just don't appreciate the benefits of a good nap

 

[aRJay]

While you are talking about old times, yesterday I made myself some flying saucers.

When I cleared out my dads place a couple of years ago I found hiding in the kitchen a Tempo Taste-T-Toast, one of the original toasted sandwich makers. I remember my mother using this in the kitchen stove to make cheese filled (or if we were very lucky ham and cheese) flying saucers for our tea.

Although I do not have access to an open fire it still works perfectly on a gas stove apart from upsetting the fire alarm

I don’t know what the make of ours was, the outside was far to heat affected to find any ID, but I remember those fondly. Mum used to by a cylindrical loaf, milk loaf, to minimise off cuts.

Modern toastie makers are OK but lack the magic.

 

[K Olley]

Modern toastie makers are OK but lack the magic.

And no crispy burnt bits around the edges

 

[AngryAntz]

Great now I am nostalgic and hungry

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

of the many trade skills i have making fresh pizza is also one of them
sometimes i feel like that bloke from the movie "he never died"
i also mix a fine frozen rum heavy pina to wash it down
(i helped dad re solder and flow that bjnatone pong board and fix the tv learning continuity testing before the age of ten)

 

[KnezBP]

Last night's stint towards the GGG had me traversing several stretches of brown dwarves with a gas station every few jumps.
So far, the gas stations were just in time to fill up for the next stretch, though the last jump was a little too far, I had to do a little infusion to make it.
No first discoveries, so far. But still a few first footfalls. And probably a few first scans. But that I'll only know for sure once I've returned.
Put up my tent in a system with three terraformables and one ELW.

I hardly pay attention to jump fuel anymore since I've always been able to redirect to a nearby scoopable. Risky though. At least in an empty part of space.

Happy Bday!

And yes, welcome to the 60 Club.

At 62, I'm amazed at the number of gamers in this age group. It's a good thing to see. We basically were the first gamers starting WAY back in the 80's. Some of us even were playing D&D when it was still on paper. I first played it back in 82-83. And we played video games at the local game arcades. I remember when Dragon's Lair was released in 83. A cabinet arcade game, on LaserDisc.

What a long strange trip it's been!

Dragon's Lair kinda confused me as a kid. Plus I think it was one of the more expensive arcades, like Hard Drivin'. Another game I found tricky.

It was a completely different time. We had learned to use our imagination from reading books and having to make do with what we had as little kids.
My first contact with computerized gaming was in the 80s, when I visited my uncle who had a NES and a giant TV. Castlevania looked stunning on that thing.
Later, I would encounter an arcade cabinet. I don't remember the game(s) we played there, but it was some fun after school.
But it would take me until the early 90s, when I already was an adult, to buy a SNES. Two games from that era have a warm place in my heart: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Terranigma. I'll stop here, as I could go on for some time, but I need a nap.

A Link to the Past might be my favourite game of all time, and I played through it twice just to enjoy the end 'credits'. I bought the US cartridge for my SNES emulator system a few years back but I haven't gotten around to fully playing it yet.

 

[Codger]

It was amazing how immersive those games were, the youngen's complain that a fully rendered game isn't "immersive" enough, when I used to get fully immersed in Zork, nothing but white writing on a black background.

It was a completely different time. We had learned to use our imagination from reading books and having to make do with what we had as little kids.

While this is true, I am myself unable to play games that have really bad graphics nowadays. The graphics can be fairly simple, if the game is good enough, but if it's a 3-D type game I can't get into shabby looking games anymore. I am now spoiled. I like it.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

I hardly pay attention to jump fuel anymore since I've always been able to redirect to a nearby scoopable. Risky though. At least in an empty part of space.

Well, I once had to call the Fuel Rats inside the bubble because I made that mistake. I stranded in a system without a scoopable star and the nearest station too far out for me to reach.

A Link to the Past might be my favourite game of all time, and I played through it twice just to enjoy the end 'credits'.

I don't know how many time we've played that game through. Thank goodness these weren't stored on tape...

While this is true, I am myself unable to play games that have really bad graphics nowadays. The graphics can be fairly simple, if the game is good enough, but if it's a 3-D type game I can't get into shabby looking games anymore. I am now spoiled. I like it.

Yeah, I can relate. We had the time to get used to it over the decades.
It's kinda crazy to imagine that there are adults out there who weren't even born when I played Need for Speed Most wanted...