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- From: gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga)
- Subject: Re: If 2 of your top 3 games are Civ and RRT, read this
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.211509.15045@coopsol.com>
- Keywords: Civ RRT
- Organization: Stay Awake Software
- References: <Bz44tw.Gn4@javelin.sim.es.com>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 21:15:09 GMT
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- <Bz44tw.Gn4@javelin.sim.es.com> krogers@javelin.sim.es.com said:
- >I was interested in the recent informal Your Top Three Games postings.
- >I only really have two top games: Civ and RRT, not necessarily in that
- >order. Nothing else that I've played is even close to those two for
- >me (though they can still be enjoyable at times). However, my game
- >experience is quite limited; i.e. I've not played many, so what do I
- >know?
- >
- >My question is: for those of you who also find them as 1 and 2 on your
- >list, what's #3? I'm looking for another enjoyable game of the genre.
- >Note I've not played SimCity in any of its incarnations, nor A-train,
- >which most people seem to be disappointed in. These are the obvious
- >ones I'm aware of. Are there others?
-
- I wrote a PC version of the UNIX game Empire. It's NOT like Interstel's
- Empire. It's much more robust in terms of economics, production, and of
- course WAR. While it doesn't have a computer player it does support 7
- players (in a single system turn-taking method). It's Shareware and
- available from
-
- ftp.ulowell.edu in /pub or thereabouts
-
- and
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu in /pubs/MSDOS_UPLOADS or thereabouts
-
- (five different world sizes - emp32.zip emp48.zip emp64.zip emp80.zip
- emp88.zip)
-
- or directly from me. Check it out and if you have questions or
- suggestions (or donations :-]) send me email at gordons@netcom.netcom.com.
-
-
- Thanks
- Gordon
- --
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- of whatever company you think I work for. So there, thhhbbbt!
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