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<blockquote data-quote="Chris Tavares" data-source="post: 743192" data-attributes="member: 10098">Star Control!The original Star Control was a really fun rewrite of the old Space War game with nifty ships and some cool strategic thinking (what systems do I defend)?Star Control II, on the other hand, was the BEST... GAME... EVAR!It had:1) Fun spacewar style ship combat, with a large number of unique ships with nifty special attacks. Fighting with different ships really required different tactics.2) Resource management - how much will it cost to get this upgrade vs. getting more fuel?3) Exploration - a VAST universe, with hundreds of stars, thousands of planets, and really neat visuals.4) A complex, interwoven storyline that was well written, suprising, and a LOT of fun to discover.5) A remarkably deep backstory, not all of which was explained in the game (left things open for sequels <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /> ).6) A really kickin' soundtrack.I recently tried to get this running on a new box I'm building - alas, nobody makes DOS drivers for PCI sound boards. :-(Luckily, the source code for this one has been released on sourceforge and is being ported to modern machines, so I'll be able to play it again!-Chris</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chris Tavares, post: 743192, member: 10098"] [b]Star Control![/b] The original Star Control was a really fun rewrite of the old Space War game with nifty ships and some cool strategic thinking (what systems do I defend)? Star Control II, on the other hand, was the BEST... GAME... EVAR! It had: 1) Fun spacewar style ship combat, with a large number of unique ships with nifty special attacks. Fighting with different ships really required different tactics. 2) Resource management - how much will it cost to get this upgrade vs. getting more fuel? 3) Exploration - a VAST universe, with hundreds of stars, thousands of planets, and really neat visuals. 4) A complex, interwoven storyline that was well written, suprising, and a LOT of fun to discover. 5) A remarkably deep backstory, not all of which was explained in the game (left things open for sequels :-) ). 6) A really kickin' soundtrack. I recently tried to get this running on a new box I'm building - alas, nobody makes DOS drivers for PCI sound boards. :-( Luckily, the source code for this one has been released on sourceforge and is being ported to modern machines, so I'll be able to play it again! -Chris [/QUOTE]

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