Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:34:04 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away Day #02 Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:34:04 -0500 Message-ID: <62urkjl4q4sfs89kl4t7q9jpbqbt9q06b7@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 93 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-6exTD6ng9ghldWPdEsc4rVX0wvbPUGh+NraFexn0WvcDDJM+GcfFATIOOS0xMffqAtlSQrxa+uwiqjs!Novc0L9mMFRvLuuDL1u8Bs4hpI7vhQGgxvBLHpKU2WJqr+2aN7KI0bpi0gk7YfLQoMvujw3t X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4685 Ho-ho-ho! Merry Holidays, all! We're into Day Two of our give-away. The beavants (half beaver, half ant) and llamas --traditional mascots of cspiga ever since 2023!-- are ever so excited this year. They've been practicing their carolling for months. Have you ever heard a llama carol? It's... unusual. Be glad you only have to hear it in December. So, what game do we have today? Well, we have FOUR games. Well, two game. No, it's four. Or is it two? It's hard to say. But however you count it, --thanks to certain people in this thread whom we shall not mention by name being extremely foolish in how they spend their money-- the end result is that we have four keys for the two different titles. [This won't be the last time this happens. Just warning you all.] So I'm not sure how many games this counts as, but I'm giving them all away anyway. * Hocus Pocus https://store.steampowered.com/app/358290/Hocus_Pocus/ I told you, we're starting slow this year. Sure, it's a 30 year old platformer that was only of middling quality when it was released, but it's not a terrible game... 3D2GE especially if you enjoy that era of game. It's got a cute charm to it, and the gameplay itself is fairly solid, if a bit lacking in originality. Grab it, play it for an CCRJH hour, then shove it to the back of your library, with 5AT5R another hour of your life gone forever. Isn't that what the holidays are all about? and also: * Hocus Pocus https://store.steampowered.com/app/358290/Hocus_Pocus/ I told you, we're starting slow this year. Sure, it's a 30 year old platformer that was only of middling quality when it was released, but it's not a terrible game... NBXGF especially if you enjoy that era of game. It's got a cute charm to it, and the gameplay itself is fairly solid, if a bit lacking in originality. Grab it, play it for an M6IJT hour, then shove it to the back of your library, with AEEH6 another hour of your life gone forever. Isn't that what the holidays are all about? But wait: there's more: * Major Stryker https://store.steampowered.com/app/358300/Major_Stryker/ Apogee was big in the 90s. They were the ones who BCD9Z published all the early Id Software games --including Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D-- and this gave P4AN9 them clout far beyond what you'd expect. "Major Stryker" wasn't a ground-breaking game --it's a fairly ordinary shoot-em-up-- but it was pretty good for PCs in the PBZ2Z early 90s. It's still got a bit of charm to it, even if it hasn't aged quite as well as other games in their catalog. Can you guess what the next game is going to be? * Major Stryker https://store.steampowered.com/app/358300/Major_Stryker/ Apogee was big in the 90s. They were the ones who 86BHY published all the early Id Software games --including Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D-- and this gave CTW8Y them clout far beyond what you'd expect. "Major Stryker" wasn't a ground-breaking game --it's a fairly ordinary shoot-em-up-- but it was pretty good for PCs in the 9QXVQ early 90s. It's still got a bit of charm to it, even if it hasn't aged quite as well as other games in their catalog. Some old-timey classics for an old-timey gaming forum. It seems appropriate. Anyway, I got to get back and wrangle me some llamas before they hurt themselves coughing up a camelid carol. (You don't want to know the specifics; there's a lot of phlegm involved.) Ho-ho-ho!