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Don't post much - last time I was active around here was when it was
the old games-strategic newsgroup. Been lurking a bit again lately and
goos to see things are pretty lively and that there are good games
being published (mostly it seems by Matrix and the Bull Run geniuses at
MadMinute).
Small point/question.
Been going through some of my wargame collection, selling what's worth
selling and throwing out what isn't. And it dawns on me. In 20 years
of buying computer wargames the amount of money I have spent on:
(a) wargames that were good/interesting in design but unfinished and/or
buggy to the degree that they were unplayable
(b) poorly conceived and designed (and also in many cases unfinished
and/or buggy to some degree)
(c) well conceived, well-executed games that gave me many hours of
enjoyment out of.
Category (c) would account for a very small amount of wargames from my
shelves! Maybe I should have been a bit more discriminate!
Last night I held in my hand a Gulf War game called Patriot that I
bought I think in 1992-3. I remember playing it. All forty minutes of
it. The worst game I ever played.
Anybody remember this one?
Kev
Don't post much - last time I was active around here was when it was
the old games-strategic newsgroup. Been lurking a bit again lately and
goos to see things are pretty lively and that there are good games
being published (mostly it seems by Matrix and the Bull Run geniuses at
MadMinute).
Small point/question.
Been going through some of my wargame collection, selling what's worth
selling and throwing out what isn't. And it dawns on me. In 20 years
of buying computer wargames the amount of money I have spent on:
(a) wargames that were good/interesting in design but unfinished and/or
buggy to the degree that they were unplayable
(b) poorly conceived and designed (and also in many cases unfinished
and/or buggy to some degree)
(c) well conceived, well-executed games that gave me many hours of
enjoyment out of.
Category (c) would account for a very small amount of wargames from my
shelves! Maybe I should have been a bit more discriminate!
Last night I held in my hand a Gulf War game called Patriot that I
bought I think in 1992-3. I remember playing it. All forty minutes of
it. The worst game I ever played.
Anybody remember this one?
Kev