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Justisaur wrote:
> On 4/19/2024 12:30 PM, Ant wrote:
>> ... Which ACTION PC games do you still own when you bought them back
>> then? My parents still kept my Fire Hawk (Thexder 2) which I discovered
>> in my toy box that they kept. I remember playing that game on my IBM
>> PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC back then. :O
> 
> Elite may be considered an action game, space combat after all.  I have 
> a copy of From Dusk 'till Dawn which was 2001, that might be my oldest I 
> still have.  I don't actually remember ever playing it though
> 
> I wasn't really all that that big on action games, more RPGs, I'm not 
> really sure what my first action game was.  If I say one that I really 
> got into, it's probably Magic Carpet or Wing Commander III.  Populous 
> maybe, I'm not sure that counts either?  I played WCIII on a friend's 
> Computer first and only got it many years later.  I'm not sure when I 
> actually bought it.  I don't have any of those left of course.  I had 
> Doom of course at some point, probably years later than it came out too. 
>   I had an Atari ST after my C-64 that I played a of games on.  I might 
> count my intellivision before the C-64, All I remember liking was the 
> D&D game, tennis, and blackjack, though those aren't PC games.
> 
That Intellivision AD&D game was good.  That's why I think they will 
have something powerful in the VR version.