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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
(on Steam)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/922/stargunner/
was https://3drealms.com/catalog/stargunner_45/
A side-scrolling ship-shooter with upgrades.
While pretty neat, it's unforgiving and a bit annoying.
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Entertainment > Games >
(XCOM > on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/7760/XCOM_UFO_Defense/
was on microprose.com
was on mythosgames.com
Aliens drop by Earth and evil Humans shoot them down and mug them.
Nothing about the interface makes enough sense, and there are no hints as to how things work. It could have been made much better, even back in the day. I'm not going to forgive how bad it is, especially since there was zero effort by Steam to actually fix basic things like aspect ratio.
aka UFO: Enemy Unknown
TODO - There is another, XCOM:Enemy Unknown but it appears to be a remake/something and with DLC content:
Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
http://www.ntronium.com/Armada2526%20Home.html
The spiritual successor to Armada 2525[doesn't exist].
Boring to me. I probably would have liked it well enough back in the day.
Entertainment > Games >
I'm not sure how to describe this game. It's an oldschool oldschool point-and-click game.
I think I would have liked this back in the day, but these days I find a bunch of the mechanics and gameplay too frustrating to deal with.
Entertainment > Games > Oldschool games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://3drealms.com/catalog/duke-nukem-3d_27/
Just here for reference.
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Entertainment > Games >
This is a generally crappy game. Several elements of gameplay are annoying, or take too many clicks or whatever. Sigh.
Master of Orion II - Battle at Antares - (1996 game)
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/212/master-of-orion/
https://masteroforion.com/
summary
opinion
aka MOO
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Software >
A first-person shooter.
This page deals with both the original and various open source efforts.
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/8829/armada-2525/
to be re-played
Its spiritual successor is Armada 2526 - (2009 game)
