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uriel1972

(4,261 posts) Sun Sep 22, 2013, 03:44 AM Sep 2013

Ooooooh Yeah!

Just bought a bunch of the old Gold Box SSI Forgotten Realms games off of ebay. Come the middle of October you wont see me outside the house for a loooong time

Old School FTW!

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Ooooooh Yeah! (Original Post) uriel1972 Sep 2013 OP

I kept hoping for an update to those where JoeyT Sep 2013 #1

Yah well, they had to pack a lot into those tiny floppies, something had to give... uriel1972 Sep 2013 #3

Nice! Hayabusa Sep 2013 #2

Heh, I wonder if they will be as much fun this time 'round... uriel1972 Sep 2013 #4

I got into Pool of Radiance last year. Fix The Stupid Sep 2013 #5

JoeyT

(6,785 posts)

1. I kept hoping for an update to those where

Reply to uriel1972 (Original post)

Sun Sep 22, 2013, 05:27 AM

Sep 2013

you didn't have to flip to journal entry number whatever to see what a character said. I always lost the manual and kind of had to wing it.

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)

3. Yah well, they had to pack a lot into those tiny floppies, something had to give...

Reply to JoeyT (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 01:43 AM

Sep 2013

Modern games with their 6GB footprints can afford to include ingame details.

Hayabusa

(2,135 posts)

2. Nice!

Reply to uriel1972 (Original post)

Mon Sep 23, 2013, 09:08 PM

Sep 2013

I absolutely love the old Gold Box games. I have to dust off my old copies and my USB disk drive and have some fun.

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)

4. Heh, I wonder if they will be as much fun this time 'round...

Reply to Hayabusa (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 01:44 AM

Sep 2013

I sure hope so

Fix The Stupid

(948 posts)

5. I got into Pool of Radiance last year.

Reply to uriel1972 (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 10:19 AM

Sep 2013

Couldn't believe how much I remembered - I remembered the city layout EXACTLY.

Some of the best games I ever played on the C64...

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