Stoo's Reviews. Transport Tycoon Deluxe, nostalgia gaming?

Transport Tycoon came out circa 1995 if I remember correctly. It is not a particularly exciting game, yet for some reason I find it quite... addicting.

Well, I downloaded it courtesy of the linky previously mentioned and fired it up.

The open source version of this game works quite well. There are numerous customisable options so you can play at a reasonable resolution etc. I set it up and went for it... I managed to play for about 2 hours, but I kinda "won" (Has an income stream around 100k a year, and no real objective or competitors.) With no set objective to win without competitors it is quite a boring game... you can challenge yourself to take on certain objectives, but overall - its pointless (moreso than most games that is). I am not that keen on playing with competitors - they tend to be too quick/efficient and if you want any chance of beating them you have to physically block their routes...

Anyway, give it a go if your into these kind of asset management games, because as far as they go - this is a good one.

Nostalgia says 8/10 - actuality is 6/10 in my opinion.

-V

Old School Games: A source!

The link I tried to put up in the Cyberdemon post yesterday - which was provided by Mozillas HTML5 Evengalist, Christian Heilmann (@codepo8 on twitter) - but the link is now down, but I was given a very nice link by a friend of his on facebook (I wont name names in case he doesn't want to be named).

http://osgameclones.com/

Im just looking at this list and drooling of the possibilities of playing old games (even some I never got round to playing) and putting up some reviews on them.

I think the ones that catch my eyes the most have to be:

Doom,
Doom II,
UFO Enemy Unkown - Aka XCOM: UFO Defense.
Planescape Torment (I never played this before but it looked good.)
Transport Tycoon

Im sure there is probably more I would love to do aswell. (Commander Keen! Weee!)...

-V

Doom - The Cyberdemon!

Random post... I had a flashback to when I first played the original Doom - must have been circa 1993... just before I had a sound card. I would have been 11. This guy scared the everliving fuck outta me...

Back then we were running a 286 PC with a 20MB hard drive, and no sound card. The Doom Games were 15MB and came on floppy disks... If you got past the challenge of getting it on your hard drive - it was AWESOME. We did not have a sound card either, so the PC's internal speaker provided all the sounds... Usually the first sign this guy was near was Brrrowuuup, BrEeeeeeeeeewww! and that was you almost dead, or very dead...

Nostalgia. Oh, whilst Im mentioning Doom - here is a HTML 5 version - Doom for your web-browser basically. The page is missing as of the time of this posting, but it worked last week - so hopefully it will be back soon!

On a side note - this has inspired me to try to do some posts about games from my youth :)

-V