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Article #93465Re: Freelancer: final nail in the "modern games not horrifyingly dumbed down" thesis
From: Bishop
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:58
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:58
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On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 18:16:19 +0800, "mr bernard langham" <speedw...@spammustdie.com.au> wrote: >Space Cowboy >In Reply To #14 >Sundog is definitely the ultimate. I hear people bitch about graphics. . . >in Sundog, you were a white dot. Everyone else was a hollow dot. The >problems with games these days is that developers are more worried about eye >candy than content. Imagine the scope of Sundog. What game in the last 10 >yeas has had that? Word is the original designer is working on a new >version. You can find a copy of Sundog to play if you look hard enough. Try >underdogs. I can't remember where I got mine from, but I still have it on >the hard drive and still fire it up now and again. > The Atari ST version was fantastic, I still play it through an emulator (WinSTon). What a great game. This site has a link to Bruce Webster's website (one of the original designers) and the open source page for SD. http://www.lukin.com/sundog/index2.html It also has a link to underdogs where you can get the ST emulator and Sundog disk image to play on a pc.
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