From:	Doc_X <northrup@*****.CSC.USF.EDU>
Subject:	Re: SR Computer Games...
Date:	Sat, 16 Apr 1994 14:40:34 -0400

On Wed, 13 Apr 1994, the holy Entombed wrote:

> Ultima III? Anyone remember Ultima II? You were just one guy, cruising
> this 'gigantic' world. It was fantastic. I don't even remember the
> goal, but you could travel in a hot air balloon, prop plane, or even a
> friggin' rocketship!

Oh, I remember this game. I loved it so much I was begging one of my
buddies to make a copy of his disk (The old 5.25 floppies! Remember
those? :-). Brilliant game!

> One of the townes had a McDonald's, and if you attacked the jester
> running around (Ronald...?), every guard in the town (and they were some
> mean dudes) would gang up on you. You could even rob from the place (I
> believe they had a 'steal' command)!

One of my favourite memories was doing the following when I was really
bored. Save my game. Then go into town and kill the jester/begger/
little kid. Then try to battle my way through the town guard. Didn't
last long, but by that time I was ready to give the game up for the
afternoon anyway, and it was a nice way to leave :-)

> That and Archon were my two of my favorites, on my Atari 800XE. Of
> course, that was after the 400 (touch-keypad) and 800... The days when
> you would go to the drugstore to pick up a 45 minute cassette to copy
> your buddy's ascii games...

Never used a tape drive. A friend of mine, though, had a TI with a tape
drive. Man I was jealous! Then again, I was about 10 at the time.

Doc X
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* Dylan Northrup <northrup@*****.cas.usf.edu> * I'm not a computer genius *
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