Re: Strategy games (was something else and Texture mapping)

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Steve Baker wrote:

>Beware of sentimentality.
>
>I used to *love* Ant-Attack on the Sinclair Spectrum it was
>the greatest game *ever*.  About a year ago I found an emulator
>for the tatty old Spectrum and with great excitement (and a LOT
>of hassle) loaded up Ant-Attack...boy what a *crap* game that
>was (by modern standards).

I remember that game. :-) You threw bombs at ants, right? Anyway, it had
an original idea, which can't be said of 99% of games today. 

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