Howdy, Pescador!
Ever since cutting the spines out of my EF2000 Manual and Strategy Guide from Dogsbody, I've been using the Manual and Guide I bought from you. Whoever did the spiral bound on that Guide did a great job!
The only game I play consistently anymore is the original Age of Empires. I usually play Egyptian, add 5 or 6 other civilizations, conquest, standard resources, gigantic random map, small islands. I have AoE 2 and 3 with more than enough PC to play them, but like with my collection of Need for Speeds, I keep going back to the original game. I occasionally play through the original shareware version of DOOM (one minus the hardest setting).
I also try to fly at least one F-19 mission an evening, if just for ideas and inspiration.
I am definitely a retro gamer if I can be called a gamer at all!
EF2000, one fine example of a finished spit-polished game! And a great example of doing more with less, IMO. My only complaint is that it was already moving away from DOS-era immersion like TFX's Base Commander giving praise or chewing butt (even dismissing you if you screw up badly enough), and the newspaper flashes. Also the walk-throughs.
Ever seen the elaborate walk-throughs of JetFighter 3? Freggin' incredible...really!
EF2000 ends with the typical sterile "War Won/Lost" splash screens. I'd rather be taunted by the Pravda, or maybe having CNN/BBC updates throughout a campaign. Not by a Typhoon style real-life broadcaster, those videos look really nice but are too static (repeated). I mean a DOS-era low-res cartoonish looking screen with moving mouth and subtitles, allowing "speech" to be far more dynamic to the situation.
I do applaud Typhoon for featuring politically incorrect nukes (watch the closing "War Lost" cut-scene, Iceland gets nuked in a top-down graphic, and then it's a 3D wasteland), but I want to see mushrooms in their 3D glory! I want to feel an emotional "Oh crap!" when I lose the war (and possibly the world).
Oh, I'm ranting when I should be graphing inequalities.
