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Re: Trying to remember the name of a game

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From: Peter Huebner
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:35
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In article <0r6o73hhn9c74vbsitt882jnc82pgd0ame@4ax.com>, 
memnoch@nospampleaseimbritish.ntlworld.com says...
> For a while now I have been trying to remember the name of a game I played a
> year or so back. It was a space combat game with strategy/RPG elements, as far
> as upgrading your ship was concerned. It was all played out in third person,
> you could upgrade your ship as the game went on to destroyers or carriers and
> one of the last weapon types you got was a kind of black hole/point
> singularity projector. You could attach all sorts of addons to your hull like
> litterally dozens of different armours, each with different effects and as the
> game progressed these would increase in level/effectiveness. Also there was no
> up and down, everything playing out on a flat plane but there were planets and
> stars to fly around, although hopelessly out of scale. It was the typical
> affair where you fight one enemy and then part through the game another enemy
> is revealed, which reminded me a lot of the Bionts from Archimedean Dynasty,
> before they ruined the rest of the series later on.
> 
> Anyone remember or even picture this game? I keep thinking of Star Wolves but
> its not that as you can go up and down as well.
> 

Star Fury comes to mind as a game that is played in one level i.i.r.c. (green 
grid overlay?), put out by Malfador Machinations, the Space Empires people.

-P.

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Subject: Re: Trying to remember the name of a game
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