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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 77 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I heard my Nokia getting a text message through the distortion in the speakers by just looking at this photo

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

Dun dudun dun dudun dun dudun duuuuuuuuuuun.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] khannie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Acknowledged

[–] manigordo@lemy.lol 4 points 2 months ago

Never played C&C on its time, but I play some games of ORA every now and then. Not bad at all I must admit.

[–] manigordo@lemy.lol 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never played C&C on its time, but I play some games of ORA every now and then. Not bad at all I must admit.

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Gentlemen... it is a nuclear device." "T-T-Time-Time is running out."

[–] saimen@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

dadadaaa dadadaaa dadadadadadadaaaa

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Westwood studios was a treasure

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anyone else remember their Blade Runnder game?

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Dairy and dairy products are class 2 contraband

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[–] Cactusfighter@lemmy.org 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

RA and RA2 were so awesome.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yuri's Revenge with the Devastator mod.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

I personally think Yuri’s Revenge brought about a bit too much mechanical cheese, and prefer vanilla RA2 - but I won’t begrudge a fellow fan their preferences!

o7

[–] nebthron@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

I still hope theres copies of the takes that didnt make it if thats the best one

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can we play Age of Empires after this?

[–] Cheesus@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Age of Empires Il still has a very active scene with new content all the time. In fact there's a new expansion dropping this week!

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is AOE 2 the one where you could use a cheat code to spawn in a blue sportscar with a machine gun on the front?

I seem to half-remember taking a few of those into France a few times lol.

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is. But there was a black sportscar in AoE 1, as well. And a laser gun warrior and a similar looking dude shooting miniature nuclear missiles.

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

Don't point that thing at me!

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s weird this picture looks like it shouldn’t be this high resolution.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Oh, not denying its legitimacy. Just not used to such a high quality picture of such an old machine.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dune 2? That was my jam.

Dune 1, iirc, was more of a story based game.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it was 2. ordo got assasins from palace, atreides got fremen, and harkonen got nukes. you would think nukes would be op but oh man the fremen.

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Back in the day before you could group select units.

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah, decoding the morse code at the back of the counterstrike manual to find the instructions for unlocking the secret ant missions. I think it involved clicking on the speaker looking thing in the top right of the menu while pressing shift

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

My now over 20 years old self built rig still runs. It's a time capsule, running winxp with photoshop 7. It has Winamp and all my old music. And it has games like red alert 2 and generals zero hour.

[–] Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

/me pops in some Master of Orion 2

Hell, yeah! Anyone willing to lug their Bigtower+CRT over? I got heaps of thin ethernet (you know? the one with the BNC connectors and Terminators) ready to party.

[–] JamieDub86@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

Take me back.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Awesome! Love your period hardware. I have a complete XP setup, but I would love a 95/98 setup. No more room.

I did install 86Box last week, though! And installed 98SE. I was also partying like it's 1996 with Microsoft Hellbender!

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

!retrogaming@lemmy.world

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

My childhood!

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I play AoE these days because it has - relatively speaking - more real units. I do wish there was an AoE or C&C type game that used just realistic troops and vehicles and such. Seems like we have the computing power these days for a much larger-scale area of battle where you could command troops and vehicles over a small city sized map. Still RTS with fog of war and such… Maybe better simulated behaviours for the troops. But command your groups of military to go take out targets or attack positions and take terrain and such...

Seems like it'd be awesome, but nobody has done it.

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[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Gonna go fire up Wing Commander 2.

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