Re: help name a game pls

[thomas@pathlink.com (thomas)]

thanks Keith,

I DO remember starflight (didn't know they had it out for the A2 -
well yet another thing to hunt down) but that's not it...

I FINALLY got it...

it's:

   Empire I: World Builders (1981, AP2, EduWare)
   Empire II: Interstellar Sharks (1982, AP2, EduWare)
   Empire III: Armageddon (1984, AP2, EduWare)

I did **NOT** know there were three of these around (the A2 rental
place in our town only carried the first two - remember the good old
days you could just rent your favorite game and play it instead of
plucking down $40+ for all the duds!). Thanks alot for the folks who
tried to help and specially to the **excellent** page at:
http://www.dadgum.com/giantlist/list.html maintained by James Hague.
Took a bit of perl and whatnot to filter out the list for A2 stuff and
sort it but then like something just snapped in my brain and I saw the
games in the list.

this is soooo cool - you guys have no idea (or maybe you do) how mad
this was driving me...now I have to go and search for them - didn't
find them on my first pass through asimov...

ofcourse I would never have found James' great page without the links
page in the A2 Faq - this is why we'll be enjoying our Apples for a
looonnng time to come.

btw. does anyone out there remember these games? can you tell me
anything about the third one?

thanks again,
thomas

"Keith Olson" <s p a m t r a p 0 0 7 @ y a h o o . c o m> wrote in message news:<tlahcve75ppi04@corp.supernews.com>...
> AHA!!!!!  I just figured out what the games were.  They were called
> Starflight 1 & 2.  *GREAT* game.  SF1 was put out by Electronic Arts and
> came out in 1986 for the PC (Probably came out for the Apple at the same
> time).  JWAS and I'll check to see if Asimov has the image.....
> 
> AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!  ASIMOV AND ALL OF THE MIRROR SITES ARE DOWN!!!!!!
> Some ratbastard named 'warez dude' was using it for a drop site and they
> took all of the sorted A2 stuff offline.
> 
> 
> "Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
> 3B547CAD.47BA59A4@swbell.net">news:3B547CAD.47BA59A4@swbell.net...
> > thomas writes ...
> > >
> > > Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
>  news:<3B4DFA12.984F38D4@swbell.net>...
> > > >      Never played the game you describe. A guess is that you are
>  looking for
> > > > Galactic Saga. It's available from Tarnover at ...
> > > >
> > > > http://tarnover.dyndns.org/Games/GalacticSaga/ .
> >  ....
> >
> > >
> > > thanks - checked it out - but I don't remember the original game
> > > having anything to do with military forces/etc. - based on the
> > > description on GalacticSaga though that DOES sound somewhat closer to
> > > the original name...
> >
> >      Well, then, what about Universe and Universe II?
> >
> >
> > Rubywand--
> 
> 
> Keith Olson
> 
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