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Retro gaming again
Feb. 10th, 2009 09:03 pmAh, old computer games are so much better than new ones! Thanks to Jonas, our token Swede at work, I managed to get hold of Diablo. I've been after this for some time, mainly because I wanted to hear the haunting acoustic guitar lines, but also because it's good, simple fun. But one look at the packaging takes me right back.
"Compete over the Internet", replete with capital 'I'!
"Spine-chilling SVGA graphics"!! Not CGA! SVGA!
"Real-time lighting effects"!!! What more need be said?
And it requires a Pentium 60 with at least 16 whole megabytes of RAM. I could probably run 50 instances of the game simultaneously on this PC. How times change.
In other retro gaming news, I'm playing through Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (ie. the one in the series before Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, so I'm working backwards. This is also why I've just rescued someone I remember killing earlier. You could avoid so many mistakes if you lived life in reverse. But I digress...), and also have a Fallout 1 save-game on the go, although that has aged poorly in some ways. I think I'm spoiled by the Baldur's Gate style interface, no matter how infuriating that was to play in multiplayer.
My TrackMania world ranking has dropped to about 98,000.
And I've not touched Thief 3 for about a year. Weird.
Must get back to Bards Tale 2 soon, as well.
"Compete over the Internet", replete with capital 'I'!
"Spine-chilling SVGA graphics"!! Not CGA! SVGA!
"Real-time lighting effects"!!! What more need be said?
And it requires a Pentium 60 with at least 16 whole megabytes of RAM. I could probably run 50 instances of the game simultaneously on this PC. How times change.
In other retro gaming news, I'm playing through Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (ie. the one in the series before Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, so I'm working backwards. This is also why I've just rescued someone I remember killing earlier. You could avoid so many mistakes if you lived life in reverse. But I digress...), and also have a Fallout 1 save-game on the go, although that has aged poorly in some ways. I think I'm spoiled by the Baldur's Gate style interface, no matter how infuriating that was to play in multiplayer.
My TrackMania world ranking has dropped to about 98,000.
And I've not touched Thief 3 for about a year. Weird.
Must get back to Bards Tale 2 soon, as well.
