[HN Gopher] Spycraft: The Great Game, Part 2
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       Spycraft: The Great Game, Part 2
        
       Author : doppp
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2023-03-17 17:11 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | cdchn wrote:
       | >On balance, this may not have been such a bad thing; that game
       | is so unfair and obtuse as to come off almost as a satire of
       | player-hostile adventure-game design.
       | 
       | Try playing Elden Ring sometime.
        
       | Waterluvian wrote:
       | One of my favourite games as a kid. There was an entire... genre?
       | of games like this. Especially on the Mac. Journeyman Project,
       | Spaceship Warlock. All the Cyan games of course. HyperCard-likes
       | I'm going to call them.
        
         | pavlov wrote:
         | Spaceship Warlock! Thank you for reminding me of this title.
         | Sometimes I think about it but couldn't remember the name.
         | 
         | It's hard to explain today why it felt so advanced in 1991. The
         | fact that it ran from CD on the expensive, exotic Macintosh II
         | while other games were low-res and loaded from floppies on MS-
         | DOS or Amiga was a big factor.
         | 
         | Here's a nice blog post about the game:
         | https://tagn.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/remembering-spaceship-...
        
           | Waterluvian wrote:
           | Wow suggested price $95.
           | 
           | I got it in this really cool shaped box that came with like
           | 15 games. I'll have to recall what it's called. Something
           | like the "Macintosh CD Game Pack"
           | 
           | I remember it included Powermonger, Spectre VR, Power Poker,
           | Labyrinth of Time, Populous 2, and many more.
        
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