Ur Quan Masters: Old-school fun
What to do when your site's been trashed, your research gets intensive, the family gets ill and you feel like the planet's collapsing? Sit back and relax. Try something new. Or... try something old-skool.
Back in high school I really enjoyed some computer games called Star Control and Star Control II. Found out only recently that the developers of these (Atari) released the source code to Star Control II in 2002 and there's been an avid following who have created a thriving gaming community dedicated to these classics. Best yet, they've got it ported to Windows, Linux, BSD, and Mac OSX, so people of just about any system can play it. It'll run on just about anything.
It's fun to pull out your old favorite toys, and Ur-Quan Masters (formerly known as Star Control II) is no exception. Playing the super-melee mode with my kids has been a really fun experience and demonstrates that despite the killer gaming engines available these days, it all still boils down to how the game plays.
Check out Ur-Quan Masters here - it's a free download!
Back in high school I really enjoyed some computer games called Star Control and Star Control II. Found out only recently that the developers of these (Atari) released the source code to Star Control II in 2002 and there's been an avid following who have created a thriving gaming community dedicated to these classics. Best yet, they've got it ported to Windows, Linux, BSD, and Mac OSX, so people of just about any system can play it. It'll run on just about anything.
It's fun to pull out your old favorite toys, and Ur-Quan Masters (formerly known as Star Control II) is no exception. Playing the super-melee mode with my kids has been a really fun experience and demonstrates that despite the killer gaming engines available these days, it all still boils down to how the game plays.
Check out Ur-Quan Masters here - it's a free download!
posted by mrbiotech at
7:52 PM
4 Comments:
Try shadowgrounds. It's not free but has a good drive plus excellent oldschool-like music :)
Won't run on mac, though ;)
By
SacRat, at 4:59 AM
..unless you've got darWINE or VirtualPC installed :)
By
mrbiotech, at 6:27 PM
QEMU's also pretty decent.. goes toe-to-toe with VirtualPC pretty decently.
By
mrbiotech, at 6:28 PM
Another nice "oldschool" game: laser squad nemesis. You might like it although the gameplay is hardcore, aproaching to the one of chess :)
By
SacRat, at 3:54 AM
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