Re: Michael Okuda's subtitle comments referring to Columbia on ST3 DVD
From: Andrew Gray (andrew.gray_at_dunelm.org.uk)
Date: 06/27/04
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Date: 27 Jun 2004 22:28:35 GMT
On 2004-06-27, OM
<om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org> wrote:
>
> ...When "Project Space Station" was finally released for the PC
> platform, after it had been a fairly good "thinking man's arcade" hit
> on the C64 and to some extent the Apple ][, it occurred about five
> months after Challenger. In the game, both shuttles were named
> Columbia and Challenger, but Challenger replaced Discovery for the PC
> release.
Weren't there four shuttles in that, or am I getting the wrong game
again?
[digs a bit]
Oooh, I remember that one now. Bugger to play without beating a machine
into slowishness first, though, if memory serves.
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=846
The one I was thinking of is the more recent:
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=1779
Thoroughly unrealistic in everything except its inability to let you
turn a profit, if memory serves, but fun anyhow <g>
(I keep feeling I'm missing a trick with this game, but I just can't
figure out what it is...)
One more random old space station game:
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name=Earth+Orbit+Stations
-- -Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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