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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: CRAP Poll: Favorite Era of Gaming
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 09:11:12 +0100
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On 04/09/2024 15:39, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Sep 2024 18:09:54 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
> 
>> JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
>> spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>
>>> On 31/08/2024 19:25, Mike S. wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:08:11 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
>>>> <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> That era would get a better mark from me if it wasn't for the fact that
>>> it was period in my life when I transitioning to my 'hobbies' became
>>> centred around going out and generally drinking. It's rather hard to get
>>> enthusiastic about playing games when your weekends consist of getting
>>> up in the afternoon with a head that feels like it's been used as
>>> football!
> 
>> Pity they never come out with "English Football Hooligan" then playing
>> it in that condition would feel perfectly natural.
> 
> 
> <pedant mode on>
> [pushes glasses higher up on nose] Achsually...
> 
> May I introduce you to the 2002 video game, "Hooligans: Storm Over
> Europe" https://www.mobygames.com/game/7235/hooligans/ where the goal
> is to lead a gang of rowdies and smash up as much as possible.
> 
> </pedant mode off>
> 
> Admittedly, the release of that game doesn't fall into the '16-bit
> era' (so I cheerfully deleted references to that bit :-)
> 
> Is there an equivalent to Internet Rule 34, except about video games
> and not sex? Because it does seem to be getting to that point that
> there's a video game made about every topic these days.
> 

Only a boardgame but still!

https://www.brexitgame.com/