Ancient Classics!

Mantis

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Anyone ever play the old 8-bit SSI games? Colonial Conquest, Storm Across Europe, both by Don Cermak (sp?)... I also loved High Command, (no longer talking about SSI), which was a fantastic game, but it had some serious bugs, and was in need of a patch. It was a hex-based game, sort of like a precursor to TOAW, but it included industry, production, strategic warfare, diplomacy.. Fantastic effort, and they almost pulled it off!

The old Battlefront games... Reach for the Stars...

Sigh!
 

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Ahhh...the oldies, but goodies.

I d/led a copy of Metal Gear 2 (never initially released in the US...only in Japan) and am playing through it. I forgot just how much fun I found the original. I thought it was so damned cool that Snake starts with just a package of Lucky Strikes! And whenever you stopped moving him, he'd start smoking. One of the hardest games I ever remember playing. I never finished the first one...come to think of it.

I've also been playing through some of the old Infocom games I missed.

The game industry is really lacking in companies like SSI...SSG...Koei...Origin...etc. I can't tell you how much fun I had with their games.
 

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But you can download a old ones wargames update like Steel panthers in two versions: Steel Panthers World at War and Steel Panthers World War II, and free!!, and of course the same to the Steel Panther2, called now Steel Panther Main Battle Tank.

http://linetap.com/www/drg/SPCamo.htm
http://www.steelpanthersonline.com/main.asp


And a interesting update of War in Russia, Pacific War (SSI), free too.
http://www.matrixgames.com/games/warinrussia/
http://www.matrixgames.com/games/pacificwar/downloads.asp


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Niko
 

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Thanks, and if somebody have dowload any of the Steel Panthers an whant to play PBE, here have a"ENEMY" :horse:

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Niko
 
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