New Games wasRe: [Coco] Re: Re: philosphical ... discussions

[Willard Goosey]

>Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:02:08 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Robert Emery <theother_bob at yahoo.com>

>AMEN to that!! I've played some AWESOME CoCo3 games lately, such as
>GoldRunner2000(fricken amazing!!), Gate Crasher (all of Nick's
>games!), etc...  so we all know there is room for improvement on many
>old classics. 

The CoCo is a great machine for playing AND writing games.  Myself, I
don't play that many computer games.  Most of the ones I do are on the
CoCo.  

I thought we missed a great chance a few years ago, when the _Starship
Troopers_ movie came out.  AFAIK "Klendathu", on the CoCo, was the only
computer game based off the book.  A sequel, perhaps based more off
the movie, would have been really cool.  After all, the Klendathu game
was Operation Bughouse (If you've read the book).  And Operaton
Bughouse was a complete disaster that nearly lost the Bug War for the
humans.  The book ends as they prepare for the second invasion of
Klendathu...  A sequel is definitely called for. ;-)

(As an aside, I wasn't that impressed with the movie... It wanted to
be _Big Red 1_ in space, and failed...)

I think a lot could be done (even from BASIC) in the way of turn-based
games on the CoCo.  Something like the Masters of Orion, Warlords,
the early Final Fantasy games....   

Perhaps it would help if Sportsware's old Wargame Designer was
available? 

Willard
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Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
Socorro, New Mexico, USA
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