I have a really fond memory of Escape Velocity. My brother and I played it all summer one year. We daisy chained two apple keyboards so that he could fly and I could control escorts.
Then something incredible happened. I must have pressed a wrong key because we got a beep and a note, "you are too far away to board this ship." We looked at each other like we just discovered the map to the holy Grail. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN BOARD? YOU CAN BOARD SHIPS?"
Then later came discovering ResEdit (and creating my patented "Javelin Spray")
I still remember so much about that game. Like capturing Lightnings and selling them for a profit. Or how it takes exactly one torpedo to kill a Defender. Or how a bumper crop lowered the price of food on Levo. The forbidden planets were so mysterious. The Lethe/Cydonia war. The Mass Driver. Modifying an Argosy into a terrifying gunboat of proton turrets. Captain Hector. Aliens. Feuding couriers that eventually start killing each other. Having 6 Rebel Destroyers as escorts, the F key turning into "press for missile rain."
That game opened us up to a whole universe of what video games could be. We were maybe 8 and 10 years old.
Then something incredible happened. I must have pressed a wrong key because we got a beep and a note, "you are too far away to board this ship." We looked at each other like we just discovered the map to the holy Grail. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN BOARD? YOU CAN BOARD SHIPS?"
Then later came discovering ResEdit (and creating my patented "Javelin Spray")
I still remember so much about that game. Like capturing Lightnings and selling them for a profit. Or how it takes exactly one torpedo to kill a Defender. Or how a bumper crop lowered the price of food on Levo. The forbidden planets were so mysterious. The Lethe/Cydonia war. The Mass Driver. Modifying an Argosy into a terrifying gunboat of proton turrets. Captain Hector. Aliens. Feuding couriers that eventually start killing each other. Having 6 Rebel Destroyers as escorts, the F key turning into "press for missile rain."
That game opened us up to a whole universe of what video games could be. We were maybe 8 and 10 years old.