Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!border-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2025 14:49:59 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: CRAP Poll # (Infinity - 6): Bring It Back! Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2025 10:50:00 -0400 Summary: Copying or reuse for AI training or data sets not allowed Message-ID: <4g8b4klgjupn7po1fvb2km9ct7plafkcmd@4ax.com> References: <10240ih$3mk3l$2@dont-email.me> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 42 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-26qkIW91KU5xqM6DmtnPM5Ls2vf6ss3FxiguB6jZWSTHhN2VE/Cv5TJlRuf8pKLQiALXJYFzjTXfRUZ!PUQnKq0nkI1qsyAD5PsrNYjDwzChYhXomiXi1kZH6wjubHFgmXu/d/EVg6AEgpe/OB7yCCAv 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 On Sun, 8 Jun 2025 12:44:01 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote: >On Sat, 07 Jun 2025 16:52:10 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > >> In this age of sequels, reboots and remakes, what forgotten intellectual >> property would you like to see revived? > >I've got one, but I don't even remember the name of the game. > >It was a spaceship simulator, where you were flying over a Jovian(?) >moon looking for alien artifacts. When you found one, you'd hover over >it and beam it up for analysis. This told you more about the alien >race, and also filled in a square in a mural page. >This was CGA graphics on an IBM XT. I just tried asking ChatGPT >about it, and drew a blank. I don't even remember the publisher. >Anybody remember this one? Pretty sure it's "Echelon" (1987). Although it used EGA graphics. I don't recall it taking place on a Jovian moon but the 'mural' thing cinched it. More info here: https://www.mobygames.com/game/424/echelon/ mural picture here: https://www.mobygames.com/game/424/echelon/screenshots/dos/1959/) Play it here (C64 version, didnt' see a playble DOS version): https://archive.org/details/Echelon_1987_Access_Software_Side_A Buy it here: https://www.gog.com/en/game/echelon Yay! I'm smarter than AI! ;-)