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Help identifying a game (Old Amiga game)

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  • 12-10-2012 4:43pm
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    SeantheMan
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    Can anyone help here

    It was a strategy game based on Asteroids, (Story was the world had been blown up, and humanity had settled on different asteroids) you had to mine minerals and build up a colony. After a while aliens would attack and you'd have to defend, you could also scout where the aliens were and mount attacks on them........sound familiar ?


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    super_furry
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsWIYQfMpPw


    Sounds like Star Control.


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    gizmo
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    Sounds like K240 actually.


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    super_furry
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    Actually, while we're at this I have one. Strategy game for - I think the Amiga. I remember little of the gameplay aside from it being a strategy of sorts, but the box-art had this 70s airbrushed sci-fi vibe and that the story was set in a fantasy world when colonies of people lived inside the bones and skeletons of long-dead gigantic creatures.


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    ChubbyHubby
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    Alpha Centauri?


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    Retr0gamer
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    Starflight?
    Untitled Image




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    YouSavedMyLife
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    Frontier Elite?

    Nah i know its not Frontier Elite, i just wanted to post this video



    Mindblowing graphics


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    NIMAN
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    Jez, how bad were those old games?:D


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    reeb
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    NIMAN wrote: »
    Jez, how bad were those old games?:D

    Better than most of the crap that passes for games these days


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    [DF]Lenny
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    Hmm I also have wondered what that game was called ,it was fantastically addictive ,was the word attack in the name? If its the game I was thinking of it had a soundtrack like a nuclear reactor ticking over ? Let me know name also so I can get it on a emulator


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    SeantheMan
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    gizmo wrote: »
    Sounds like K240 actually.

    Thanks gizmo, that ws the one :D


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    [Deleted User]
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    YouSavedMyLife wrote: »
    Frontier Elite?

    Nah i know its not Frontier Elite, i just wanted to post this video



    Mindblowing graphics

    If only they did an updated version for modern consoles/gaming rigs. Would be such an incredible game.


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    juan.kerr
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    Bring back the original Sensible Soccer I say.


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    Niska
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    SeantheMan wrote: »
    Can anyone help here

    It was a strategy game based on Asteroids, (Story was the world had been blown up, and humanity had settled on different asteroids) you had to mine minerals and build up a colony. After a while aliens would attack and you'd have to defend, you could also scout where the aliens were and mount attacks on them........sound familiar ?

    As was already suggested, sounds like K240.

    Was remade / sequalised for PC a few years later as Fragile Allegiance, which is up on GOG if you're feeling nostalgic.

    http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fragile_allegiance


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    jumbobreakfast
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    If only they did an updated version for modern consoles/gaming rigs. Would be such an incredible game.

    Galaxy on Fire 2 works well on a nexus 7 tablet or ipad. I think there's a PC version now as well on steam but it's a dumbed-down version of frontier to be honest which might suit tablets but could be too simplistic on a PC.


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    Sarky
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    Niska wrote: »
    As was already suggested, sounds like K240.

    Was remade / sequalised for PC a few years later as Fragile Allegiance, which is up on GOG if you're feeling nostalgic.

    http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fragile_allegiance

    Fragile Allegiance is still available? I freaking loved that game. Oh, why is payday so far away? :(


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    jimbob_jones
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    Could it be Supremacy ???



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    SeantheMan
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    We've already established it was K240 :p


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    jimbob_jones
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    Ooops my bad :o sorry, although Supremacy was pretty damn good too :D


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    jumbobreakfast
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    jimbob_jones wrote: »
    Ooops my bad :o sorry, although Supremacy was pretty damn good too :D
    It sure was: http://remix.kwed.org/?search_id=4811


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    Headshot
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    Bring back zool


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    jumbobreakfast
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    Headshot wrote: »
    Bring back zool
    Quite sad that I'm actually posting this: http://www.amigaremix.com/remixes/search/daxx%20feat%20gibs (Zool borrowed the Lotus 3 music)


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