That was your review? I think reading that is what turned me onto the game. After reading that gamesdomain review I downloaded the demo. I just couldn’t believe that a game I’d never heard of (until I read your review) was so incredibly good. My thoughts along the time were something along the lines of:
“There’s no justice in the world that a brilliant little game like this hasn’t got any publicity. It’s going to get released and no one is even going to even know about how brilliant it is.”
I played it with my nieces who were 11 and 8 at the time, and they both loved it as much as I did. (Although, the 11 year old loved taking all the residents of the park who were unhappy or sick and put them in a penitentiary she always built outside the park. Then periodically she would drown all the people in the pen to get her satisfaction numbers up).
Of course, my fears did not come true. The game’s brilliance spread through word of mouth. It started selling well, and Atari actually raised the price from $30 to $40 and really started promoting the game when they realized they had a hit on their hands. And it went onto become one of the best PC games of all time. At least at the time. (This was before The Sims came out). It’s probably still up there in the Top 10 though I’m guessing, if you lump the Sims franchise together. Does anyone know if that’s true?
So yeah, a victory for the little guy. A brilliant game made primarily by one guy in a time when that was basically unheard of that went on to become a mega-success initially through word-of-mouth. A great success story that really gave me a lot of hope for the whole game industry.
Looks like GOG will be getting in on the summer sale fun… one game on sale per day through the 25th starting tomorrow and everything will be 60% off
As if my wallet and backlog hasn’t taken a big enough hit with the Steam sale
This is a great time to be a PC gamer!
yup. The D2D sale is killing me…Fallout 3 GotY for $9
That’s a must have at that price.
Not everything…that would be disaster to our wallets.
Dammit!
Agreed. Yay GoG, Steam and Indie distribution.
Murph
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I grabbed Fallout 3 yesterday – been looking for a good price on that game…meaning, less than $20. Getting it for just under $10 was a huge treat.
LOL yea I didn’t mean everything, as in their entire library. That would be devastating to my livelihood. As it stands now, I have so many games and so little time.
Well I just loaded RCT and WOW did that take me back. Game still looks and sounds as great as it did then, but I’ll need to get reacquainted with the interface. Also, I found it weird that it killed Explorer before it ran and then restarted it after the game was ended, but hey, it worked.
The “kill Explorer” trick is an old one for DirectDraw and early Direct3D games. Basically, you get all sorts of corrupted screen messes if you don’t shut down Explorer with some games, like RCT1/2 and even I’76.
And RCT is godlike. I remember enthusing about Mr. Taylor’s creation way back in Follies days.
Huh, never heard of that before, thanks for the explanation! I’ll try that with the GoG version of I’76 (unless they incorporated it in their download since I snagged it).
Arbit
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Argh, not being to forward/backward roll or scootch around while crouched is making this is a real pain. I also forgot that enemies can get grenade launchers playing on the highest difficult, so now I’m getting one-shot all the time. I don’t think I have the patience to restart on a lower difficulty, either.
Please tell me they’re getting the sequel!
There’s a 3rd-party launcher (check the GoG forums) that does this trick along with a couple of other hacks to get I76 to limp along in a modern OS.
Awesome, I’ll go take a look see! Thanks!
Sanitarium is the daily GOG deal. Unfortunately, since I have that one already. It’s a pretty good horror point&click adventure, and quite bizarre, though, so anyone interested in that sort of thing might want to check it out.
Wow, I guess I missed that one.
Are you referring to the Fallout 3 GotY daily deal on Steam? Because on D2D I just looked and it says it’s 29.95.
No matter, though, given the deal on Steam.
Today’s deal is the Earth 2150 Trilogy, which are really good RTS games all for $2.39.
