August 13, 2003, 18:03
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Holy ****! You guys remember an awful lot about PoR! I just vaguely remember having the game. I'm not sure I finished it. I definitely beat Dragons of Krynn, though.
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 I spent ALOT of time on that game. I had to wait a whole year for Curse of the Azure bonds to come out and the only other RPG out was Bard's Tail 1 which you had to play on an IBM PC with CGA graphics and no sound card. PoR was the only RPG game in town worth owning. 
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August 13, 2003, 18:04
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Nonono. It was quite simple, actually, and I probably shouldn't say "space game", since that'll make one think of a simulator or something - it was either a side scroller or one of those things which happen only on one screen a la Space Invaders. I can't describe it well enough for anyone to remember.
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August 13, 2003, 18:20
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Originally posted by Stefu
Nonono. It was quite simple, actually, and I probably shouldn't say "space game", since that'll make one think of a simulator or something - it was either a side scroller or one of those things which happen only on one screen a la Space Invaders. I can't describe it well enough for anyone to remember.
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August 13, 2003, 18:22
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Asteroids?
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August 13, 2003, 18:23
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Blue Max was a great airplane game for the C64. I spent days and days shotting and bombing things.
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August 13, 2003, 18:27
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Galaga, I bet.
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August 13, 2003, 18:32
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Originally posted by Oerdin
Blue Max was a great airplane game for the C64. I spent days and days shotting and bombing things.
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Yep,
till today I donīt know,
what was the trigger to get into those large Cities,
where you had to Bomb Flak Batteries.
I know that in the End I fairly often got into these Cities,
but I donīt know how I made it.
Perhaps by shooting enough of those special marked Planes and Bombing enough of the special marked Cars?
btw.
I never did get fully into Blue Max 2001
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August 13, 2003, 18:40
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The triggers were point totals. If you got enough point then you went on to the next level. If you didn't have enough points then you just kept repeating the same level over and over.
I never played Blue Max 2001 but the original was ahead of it's time.
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August 13, 2003, 18:43
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I had to subscribe to a foreign games delivery company for the Curse of the Azure Bonds since most games at that time here were pirated and after PoR I wanted them original for my C64 (for the manuals, the stability etc).
But by the time the games arrived I had the Amiga 500 and had sold my C64 
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August 13, 2003, 18:46
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You missed out on a fun game dude. It was as fun a PoR though. It just wasn't as original as the first one.
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August 13, 2003, 18:48
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I've played it too. Later on though at my 386 after the Amiga 500. I agree it wasn't as good as PoR. Maybe the novelty had worn off but I think it also was more restrictive than PoR in some ways... movement outside cities etc)
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August 13, 2003, 18:53
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They improved the game engine in Curse since they added the "restl" feature. In PoR you had to guess about how long it would take to heal your characters and your mages never automatically rememorized their spells. With one touch of the "rest" button your people were healed and their spells rememorized. 
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August 13, 2003, 18:56
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Yeah that was a great option, granted.
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August 13, 2003, 19:38
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Ah, the C-64. What a wonderful age of innocence!
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August 13, 2003, 19:44
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Defender...
reading this word in your Posting reminds me of another great Game:
Defender of the Crown
I spent hours in building Castles and besieging others 
Especially being able to steer a Catapult and Bombard the Walls of the enemy Castle was a great Feature for this time.
Althougn I found the Tournaments being a little bit too easy, as you just had to count how many times your Lance bumped up and down and then, at the right time had to raise it.
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August 14, 2003, 02:27
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Winter and Summer games were great. There was also a Summer games II i believe.
I hated hot dog. I actually did like one of the 2 figure skating games on Winter games  . I had a great score on 1 of them. I just did a whole bunch of weird ****, and amazingly got a huge score. My record was on there forever, my brother or no one else could beat it.
I wasn't very good at bobsledding, despite many, many attempts. I was pretty good a speedskating. I had a record on that one.
As for summer game I liked the cycling events. The high jump was impossible for me. I did okay at the triple jump. some of the swimming I did okay at.
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August 14, 2003, 04:45
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Since I had my C64 age 9-11, I didn't play many of these fancy RPGs and whatnots (though I remember trying Elite and not understanding it at all). Instead me and my friends played lots of action games.
Perennial faves:
Spy Hunter
Operation Silk Worm
Archon
Commando
Er... this one set in a graveyard I can't remember the name of
Bizzarely, Streets Sports Basketball
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August 14, 2003, 05:59
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I actually did like one of the 2 figure skating games on Winter games . I had a great score on 1 of them. I just did a whole bunch of weird ****, and amazingly got a huge score. My record was on there forever, my brother or no one else could beat it.
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Same here... got a pretty high score, don't remember how high though, but I was in the Hall of Fame until shortly before we sold the Amiga... then someone got a better score than me 
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August 14, 2003, 13:09
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anybody play text adventures?
I was really too young to every figure out how to beat any of them. I just had fun putting in stupid commands and see if there was a funny response.
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August 14, 2003, 13:48
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Zork was a good text adventure. I remember laughing hysterically when I went into some bathroom, looked around, and the computer told when there was something brown laying on the floor. It turns out the brown thing was a chocolate bar which you had to feed to a dog so you could get past the next stage.
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August 14, 2003, 13:56
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I have never tried a text adventure... the first one I ever tried was Larry 6...
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August 14, 2003, 14:00
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Leasure suite larry and the King's Quest series weren't proper text adventures since they had pictures. The old Zork style text adventures were all the rage in the late 1970's and early 1980's when graphics were so bad no one cared that you were just always typing words and reading descriptions.
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August 14, 2003, 16:23
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Leasure suite larry and the King's Quest series weren't proper text adventures since they had pictures.
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That's what I said... I have never tried text adventures...
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August 14, 2003, 16:41
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 Sorry, I guess I should read more closely.
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August 14, 2003, 17:42
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August 14, 2003, 18:00
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The Seven Cities of Gold was another C64 game I really liked. I loved how I could have 16 spaniards and still destroy the entire Inca Empire.
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