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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "8 Classic Games You Haven't Played (but should)"
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On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:44:10 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:

>On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:25:51 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

>>Can we both agree, though, that "Syndicate" was the better of both
>>games? ;-)

>Yes.

    :-)

The gameplay of "Syndicate" was awesome, but what I really remember
about it was its intro cinematic. A full-screen animation (back when
full-screen anything was still rare), it was incredibly stylish and
hinted at depths to the world that neither the manual nor the game
itself lived up to. It could be launched with its own executable
(intro.exe) which I would run again and again, just because it was
_that_ cool. To quote an earlier poster in this thread: 

     "The music was great to a younger me sitting in a dark 
      cold bedroom staring at a 14" CRT with small speakers 
      blasting out, the soundtrack, happy days"

(And speaking of music and games from Bullfrog... "Lemmings", amirite?
Such catchy remixes of old classics, all 'sung' through the squeal of
a Soundblaster's OPL3 chip. I'm pretty sure that the game itself
wouldn't have reached the heights of popularity it did with a
different soundtrack.