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Subject: Re: Game Drought
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2024 10:35:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On 8 Nov 2024 at 19:10:05 CET, "candycanearter07"
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

> Samuel Söderberg <samuel@samuelsoderberg.se> wrote at 10:55 this Friday (GMT):
>> On 7 Nov 2024 at 16:43:39 CET, "Spalls Hurgenson" <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 14:04:06 -0000 (UTC), Samuel Söderberg
>>> <samuel@samuelsoderberg.se> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Also, one of my brothers gave me UFO 50 as a birthday gift:
>>>> https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50/
>>>> ...it is not a strategy game, but if you do not love UFO 50, you do not love
>>>> games.
>>> 
>>> Strange, I do not love "UFO 50" but I do love video games. I must be a
>>> some sort of paradox. I'd better off myself before I destroy the
>>> universe. It's such a bother when that happens; I don't want to have
>>> to go through it again. ;-)
>>> 
>>> But seriously, 8-bit style games do nothing for me. More so if they're
>>> themeatically based on console titles. My formative computer gaming
>>> years were spent with flight-sims, RPGs, adventure and strategy games;
>>> platformers, shooters and sports titles were never my that important
>>> to me. And I've embraced the increased complexity that each generation
>>> of tech has allowed games. I've no desire to go back to such simple
>>> fare as passed for entertainment in the early 80s. "UFO 50" does not
>>> scratch any itch for me. Even the few games in the collection that
>>> matched up to my gaming in that era aren't going to do it for me; I'd
>>> much rather play a modern version of those games and not some
>>> throwback.
>>> 
>>> I do not like "UFO 50". It's got nothing I want from a game... or even
>>> 50 games.
>> 
>> To each their own!
>> 
>> Did you play Seaside Drive? Cyber Owls?
>> 
>> Okay, just checking. :)
> 
> 
> Seaside Drive is one of my favorites, but man Golfaria and Party House
> are like the two best. I didn't like Cyber Owls.

I will try them at once!