game-related
Stuff to make You LOL
What kind of people made "Wing Commander 2"?
In Wing Commander 2 (as well as in the later collection WC: Kilrathi Saga) there's
a file MODULE.000. When you open this file with for example Word, most of it is of course
just mess. But there is some plain text among the code there. Now, most of this text
is the stuff you see during the game, but there's also something left by the programmers...
For those of you, that don't have the game (Shame on you!), here's what can be read:
CLICK ME!
What does this tell us about programmers? And what tells about Origin, that it left this
to the ready product AS WELL AS a remake in collection published about five years later?!
The Making of Wing Commander Armada
Makers of WCA kindly gave with the game a file QUOTES, which I
(against copyright laws) present you HERE
Mean Streets - the good old days
Mean Streets (published ca. 1989) was the first game of Tex Murphy -series. This classic has
some unforgettable features. MS had an incredible modern sound system called
RealSound, which honestly is one of the best things ever heard on PC speaker.
Here's how to connect your PC to stereo for better sound quality!
That text isn't in manual... It's given by the game itself!
Manual has some other great notes such as: "Computers with clock speeds greater than 6 MHZ
(such as Turbo) will tend to have slightly higher quality sound than slower machines." One of my
favourites comes from Playing Tips: "Playing with the room lights turned down will make
the graphics appear more vivid and will add to your enjoyment of the game." Now, this was at
EGA/VGA era... Bye bye, eyesight!
Mean Streets had "TASTE" command (unfortunately rare in adventure games), which allowed you to
try interesting things ("taste dead scientist" for example). The authors of game had realized this
and MS has some nice answers to strange suggestions. Here's some.
Some of greatest graveyards ever
Here I have collected humorous tombstones from several games.
MORE TO COME (sooner or later...)
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