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# Kids today don't understand the stamina that those games used to take
Hours of your life spent playing it non-stop. None of this 'save' business. Lightweights.

Woo!
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 11:46, archived)
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(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 11:48, archived)
# I feel we were perpetually lied to.
All of the games had a plot, none of them had closure.

I kicked prostitutes in the tits in Target Renegade for nothing. There was no hot chick to rescue. Only the game to play on loop, forever and ever and ever and ever...
(I helped save b3ta! Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 11:52, archived)
# I finished 'Elite' though.
That's how boss I am.
(I helped save b3ta! Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 11:59, archived)
# I never got beyond Dangerous
six whole weeks of solid playing. good grief.
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 12:01, archived)
# I don't think you can actually finish Elite.
But once you get the 'E-L-I-T-E' title and have completed all 3! missions there's little to encourage any more gameplay.
(I helped save b3ta! Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 12:03, archived)
# I got to be "Elite"
...was there more to it than that?

I remember getting whacked a couple of times early on by the Thargons, but once I'd tooled up and felt ready to deal with them, the buggers were nowhere to be found :(
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 12:02, archived)
# On the Speccy version I was always in Thargoid space
Shortly after the dreaded 'Fuel Leak' warning.
(I helped save b3ta! Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 12:04, archived)
# you could get into thargoid space, or whatever it was called
by doing something in hyperspace. pressing some combination of buttons. it always ended in tears.
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 12:06, archived)
# Thargoids, that was it
They only ever seemed to show up when you were completely unprepared :(
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 12:07, archived)
# Thargons were the little robot drones the thargoids would release.
(I helped save b3ta! Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 12:09, archived)
# god, can you imagine trying to sell it now?
three lives? seriously? when do you get more? never? you mean you go back to the start? fuck that.

also, fuck Eugene.

[edit] Oh gods, I'm having Amoebatron flashbacks.
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 12:00, archived)
# More lives?
You can gain your first extra life with the score from the first object in The Vat if you're playing really well...
/Fanboi
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 14:44, archived)
# and the joy of spending hours at a game only to come up against an unbeatable boss
because the programmers ran out of time and didn't get the ending to work.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 12:00, archived)
# The first Accounting software package I worked on had the same problem.
We sold it before writing the year-end routines as,'We've got 12 months to write that.'

Somewhat foolishly forgetting that financial year ends don't line up with Calendar year ends. That was a mad panic when a customer who bought our software in March wanted to run his year end in April.
(I helped save b3ta! Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 12:07, archived)
# running a financial year end in april..
who ever heard of such a thing! ...

oh.. wait.
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 14:59, archived)
# ^ this, with tits!
(I helped save b3ta! Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 12:34, archived)
# Chuckie Egg!!
:)
(I helped save b3ta! Q4nobody, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 13:15, archived)
# the game starts again
but the yellow duck flys out and around to kill you! Almost shat ourselves when that first happened.

Never got more thana few levels further in though, no idea what happened if you managed to complete it the second time with duck.
(I helped save b3ta! ferret -> twitter.com/syfyautocorrect <-, Sat 28 Apr 2012, 8:04, archived)