Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 is worth any negative social impact it has on my life.
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Steam has a 4X sale going on now and the latest Theme Hospital spiritual successor made two spinoffs.
They made a sequel to Evil Genius in 2021.
Whatever interests from the late 20th century you think only you had are almost certainly disappointingly mainstream now.
But hey, keep at it. I'm still holding out hope for EA pulling off a Dungeon Keeper sequel at some point even if it's a PR stunt.
My wife just picked Black & White (2001) back up. That game has held up better than I’d ever have expected.
The B&W games feel weirdly... mobile these days. They put a lot of work into that 3D hand interface and it turns out they just ended up stumbling upon a semi-competent touchscreen UX.
Heh, and the graphics can probably be managed on any low-end phone nowadays.
Am I crazy, or wasn't one of the original selling points that you could use a touchscreen to control it?
The Nintendo DS was three years away. The iPhone was six years away (yes, Nintendo did it first and people often don't remember that).
My recollection of following the absolutely ridiculous hype cycle is that they were talking about the mouse being your hand inside the game and pretty much nothing else, but it was remarkable prescient in terms of how that would work without the mouse on the way.
I don’t think so. Touchscreens were not at all common in 2001.
There was an expensive glove accessory it had comparability with, the "P5 Glove" I remember it being called. (WHY do I remember this?)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_glove
I imagine that would have been super neat or crazy frustrating to use haha.
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Oh I love it, but my ultimate favorite is the 1988 DOS gama Life & Death where you had to cirurgically remove the appendix (and there was also brain operation). The graphics were shit of course but the amount of steps on each operation was awesome. You have to cut each layer of skin, remove the apendix, suture each layer back not leting the patient bleed of die. Amazing
Edit: You can play online https://www.myabandonware.com/game/life-death-h6
PLEASE if you are a game designer remaster it!
Holy crap, I had this game and never once successfully completed a surgery. Everyone died.
I was still in elementary school, so it was still fun to goof around.
Yes it was super dificult! We did it once, years later, following a tutorial lol
I played "The Surgeon". I think it was on Amiga. I had a perfect record. Not one of my patients survived.
I believe you had to put in an aortic graft. I got to that part a few times before they died.
Trauma Centre on the DS is pretty much that.
Also Surgeon Simulator (and the VR port) but that's more a comedy take of it.
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Dungeon Keeper.
Pharaoh.
Emperor: rise of the middle kingdom.
Theme Hospital.
Zeus.
Gimme
I sank so many hours into Dungeon Keeper 2. Such a good game.
Theme hospital was great
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Colonization Master of Orion II Age of Empires II
OpenTTD.
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Black and White, my love
Have you got a notion that youd quite like to sail the ocean?
Eidle, eidle eee! Eidle eidle eee! We just can't set sail 'til we get some more wood!
Civ III is a masterpiece
A handsome young cyborg named Ace
Woo'd women at every base
But when ladies glanced at
His special enhancement
They vanished with nary a trace
Alpha Centauri is the true succssesor to the Civ franchise, you cannot change my mind
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Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was white as snow.
So hot
Widelands is a great Settlers-like and has become my go-to cozy game to relax with at the end of the day
For me it's PSOBB on emu servers
Hey fellow hunter!
It's been a while for me but I should hop back on to Ephinea to scratch the old itch
I mean the beauty is there's probably a community or discord for that. A lot of fringe interests tend to have one brave group organizer to keep the conversation going.
Traffic giant is the best game ever!
Way too many people like these here for you to be lonely.
We talking Papa's pizzeria?
Played Aerobiz (SNES) the other day and completely nerded out.
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