Yep...old dude here. 47 is ancient in the computer gaming world! I simply broke my normal lurking silence to say "thanks" to Frogboy and the Stardock team for Elemental. Yes, I've had a few crash to desktops, but each patch cuts down on 'em. What I'm thankful for is the FUN I've had...It's been a long, long time since any company has had the guts to release a turn-based strategy game. They are not the most popular thing out there these days! However, a long and fun strategy game that can take hours is blissful heaven for some of us. Elemental fits the bill...and judging from Stardocks track record, it will do nothing but get better over time.
By the way, I purchased this at the local Wal-mart...they only had 2 copies and both were in the stockroom! They hadn't even bothered to put it out by Thursday of last week. PC gaming is a dying art, I'm afraid.
Thanks again,
"Old fart" jmarke
yup im an old fart also, age 47 and am having great fun with it,most enjoyment ive had in a long time,and ive played a lot of games, thanks for the great game
Man, you guys are ooooooold! Still have any games on cassette tape?
Wait, what? Someone older than me? Can't be.
I was just playing Mafia II and reminiscing about the good old days... (BTW Great mood in that game, really great.).
Bah you're babies 50 here
anybody remember the game called siege ?
I'm half their age and still have games on cassette tape. Personal computers aren't THAT old dude.
You're all kids...
My advanced placement high school math class used sliderules. We had a 6' one at the front of the class we did problems on.
I first saw Star Trek in B&W. One of those tiny screen sets.
I remember penny candy costing a penny. Heck, with some you got >1 for a penny.
We used fountain pens -- the kind that leak ink all over your shirt -- in grade school.
Mini-skirts in jr. high and high school. Yum...
I remember when social diseases were curable with penicillin! (ah, the early 70's -- what a great time to be an undergraduate). I feel sorry for kids these days in that regard...
Heh, what computer was that? I remember seeing cassette tapes for the C64 I think...but it was so long ago...early 80's.
Bah I cry shenanigans... Star trek debuted in 1966 I was 6 heh heh
I watched the beetles land in use..
I watched first moonwalk..
I watched Elvis at Madison square gardens where they refused to show him from hipps down because of all his crazy girations..
I remember Topo Gigo The little puppet mouse from Ed Sullivan's "really big shoe" his words not mine..
Oh an this old fart also says thanks..
Early 80's were 5 1/4" floppy disks. 3.5"s were out by 1984 when the Mac came out.
The Internet used to be green and black TEXT, none of this fancy-schmancy streaming media. No Instant anything. We had to upload at 150 bits per second in the video snow every day. Both ways!
Hmm, cassettes I could dig up on short notice, let's see. Telengard, of course. Andromeda Conquest, probably. Think I can still find my Empire of the Invincible Overmind or whatever it was called. I forget if my copy of Starfighter was on tape or disk. Sea Dragon. Robot Attack, I think was the name. Scarfman. I don't remember what the Defender clone was called. I can probably come up with a dozen more, but I'd have to zip up to my parents place and loot my old room.
Yes and No, the C64 was using tape drives for storage and crap...hard to believe but true.
No way, I was born in 78 and can remember using first tape drive on my amstrad 464 and then 3.5", must have been into the late 80s
I was all proud of myself when I hacked my TRS-80 cassette version of Telengard to get it to load off a floppy. Emboldened, I tried the same trick on my buddy's C64. We timed it, the game actually took longer to load off disk than the tape! The Commodore 1541 disk drive was an utter nightmare, we used to start loading Elite or Bard's Tale, and drive to McDonald's while we waited.
I was 7 when I was playing the cassette game Sink the Bismarck. After I won the game I saw that it was written in BASIC. So I hacked into the game and gave myself 12 turrets--bet you didn't know some WWII battleships had 12 turrets, did you? Then I realized the game was too easy, so I coded in more British battleships. The British were throwing their entire Royal Navy at me, and I sunk them all.
Good times... I miss the psychedelic C64 loading screens while you waited half an hour for the tapes to read.
I was lucky my first computer was an apple2c...pretty durable and effecient.
Ok next thread : what is your age,so we know a bit more about this turn based fantasy game market
Mine 36.
36 as well.
A glimpse into the future of nursing homes, cranky old men talking about Commodore 64, cassette tapes, and floppy disks. Each one trying to one up the other in seeing who used the most obsolete piece of computer technology. /yawn
GD you're just jealous.
41.
I was abused by an Apple as a child. II+ in Junior high used to beat me up for my lunch money. Whole gang of IIe's tortured me all through High School. Don't even get me started on my college roomate's Mac. I still can't even touch anything starting with the letter 'i'.
At the risk of being piled up on; Take your old-fart-love fest elsewhere!
The last thing we need at this stage is a geriatric computer nostalgia orgy, it's not helping the state of the game and is really cluttering up the forum. Threads like these are worse than the hate threads, so please, go get a virtual room at hotel.com or something.
Please don't take the above seriously.
Your just jealous because you never got fumigate bugs out of CSIRAC. Now that was tech support.
(No I never got to do it either)
Hey hey don't be threadshitting now.
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