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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Game Drought
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 18:10:05 -0000 (UTC)
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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.
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