A little while ago, during the drive home from Maine, I was struck by some odd reminiscence for a few classic (nee “old”) science fiction games I used to play on the computer. By classic, I don’t necessarily mean that they were best sellers[] or even particularly good games[]. No, by “classic”, I mean only that these were games that I played ”back in the day”[] – sometimes ad nauseum — with a great deal of enjoyment.
As the drive continued and the reminiscing went on, I made up my mind to do a series here on F_D — a kind of “top 4″ of these classic sci-fi time-wasters. I’m going to take a look at four “old favorites”, make a few remarks on what made them great (or at least fun), and then discuss a little about their replayability and how they might be different if they’d been made in the past year or so.
I’ll start with Outpost.
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