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- From: petitc@nuge104.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit)
- Subject: Re: RipOff: Heh Heh Heh Nyaah
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- References: <BzL9IM.Dps@phage.cshl.org> <Dec.21.14.29.15.1992.22889@electron.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:02:56 GMT
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- chase@electron.rutgers.edu (Kevin Chase) writes:
-
- >Actually, those of us who had Atari computers probably
- >remember ANALOG magazine M/L games. If I remember rightly,
- >Bacterion was a clone of Rip Off, and was great fun. I remember
- >typing the damn thing in. ANALOG produced many great games for those
- >of us who had no money for games, but had time to type in the
- >games in hexadecimal. I got quite good at it actually.
-
- >Planetary Defense is probably my all-time favorite ANALOG
- >game. Your planet was under attack by bombs which moved toward
- >the surface. You had a satellite which fired shots at the bombs, but
- >you had to wait for the satellite to get to the correct side of the planet
- >or you would end up firing at yourself. For fun I would see how
- >quickly I could lose the game by shooting my own planet.
- >I couldn't believe I got a game this good from a magazine.
-
- Yeah. I think I have something like 3 dozen of them. And I typed in Rocks,
- a 3-D Maze Game, a Database program, a spreadsheet program, Train Crazy,
- and my favorite: some game where you're at the bottom of a cave with a limited
- supply of air and strength (and had to avoid a dart and bat). Loved building
- silly caves for it.
-
-
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