Classic Gaming OT and OT / Re: OT: Playstation 2 opinion?

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Sat Nov 3 18:50:18 2001

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:38:06AM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Derek Peschel skrev:
> >On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:21:09PM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:

> >> OLMasken! Fire! Bilspel!
>
> >I need some more explanation here...
>
> BBS games from the nineties. OLMasken is a "worm" game, Fire is like the Game
> and Watch game where you have to save people from a burning house. Bilspel is
> a marvelous little racing game.

I remember another Game and Watch game where you have to catch pancakes
as they flip through the air. Obviously Nintendo wasn't above reusing a
good idea.

> But such novelties aside, I'd rather have bitmapped (or vector =) graphics and
> some channels of sound.

I know what you mean. Even a memory-mapped text display is much more
expressive than a slow serial link.

The one good thing about BBS games (or games on timesharing computers) is
that you get to play against a large number of other people.

-- Derek
Received on Sat Nov 03 2001 - 18:50:18 GMT

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