Homercidal said:OH SHT! My BIL and I would play this ALL the TIME. (Actually it was TW2000...)
We hit up the local BBS and run through our turns if we were lucky enough to get in on the one phone line the BBS had. We would excitedly upgrade the modem because every upgrade meant more chances at getting all of our turns in.
I met the brother of the SYSOP where I used to work and accused him of cheating because he was always top of the game. He laughed and said he didn't cheat, but I should see the "server" running the system.
It was a motherboard hanging by a nail on the wall of his brother's closet, with the hard drive and PSU sitting on a shelf next to it.
Later I bought the house this guy lived in and evicted him, but he became a very close friend and we still get together and play games and go backpacking etc. His brother, the SYSOP even brews beer once in a while.
Sorry to ramble, I never thought anyone else in the world played that game!
I sucked at it, BTW...
Did anyone else have the powermites tool sets? Long before lawyers took the fun out of toys, these things were awesome. They could cut balsa wood, thin styrofoam and even skin. Everything really worked.
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I had everything, even the Table Saw.
(I think I found my newest obsession, trying to get these pieces again.)
This Was my first home computer.
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got into trouble playing this at my first job a few times. The mother of All Games
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Oh good grief... you just beat me to it! I would stay up all night playing that thing on 386 and 486 machines. I remember attempting to play it on faster machines and it was impossible. The processor speed did something to the game to make it run so fast it was not usable anymore... LOVED S.E.
Huaco said:Man... it would take $12 to fill my commuter car at that price! Instead, I pay about $40!!!!!!!!!!!That is more than $3,000 per year difference!
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