well, I was anyway...
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( , Tue 22 Apr 2003, 10:33, archived)
From the computer and video games that were never made challenge. See all 572 entries (closed)
( , Tue 22 Apr 2003, 10:33, archived)
yeah...
but in the original you didn't start with a docking computer, you had to trade before you could afford one, and I couldn't trade because I couldn't fucking dock!
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Tue 22 Apr 2003, 10:38,
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If I remember rightly,
you approach the station from the planet at EXACTLY the right angle & start rotating in time with it...
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Tue 22 Apr 2003, 10:40,
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yeah
either that, or getting ambushed by a dozen pesky Thargons and their mini remote ships.
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Tue 22 Apr 2003, 10:41,
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that was the theory
space travel was difficult when you were 8 years old
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Tue 22 Apr 2003, 10:42,
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I never managed to dock to sell
my cargo either.
The fact I had a pirate copy, without the keys written down, didn't make it any easier.
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Tue 22 Apr 2003, 10:48,
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The fact I had a pirate copy, without the keys written down, didn't make it any easier.
(related) Threadjack
What are the speed up/slow down keys for Elite?
I keep crashing when I'm trying to dock
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Tue 22 Apr 2003, 10:38,
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I keep crashing when I'm trying to dock
fire is a
space is speed up,
still can't find slow though!
[edit] slow is right shift!
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Tue 22 Apr 2003, 10:50,
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still can't find slow though!
[edit] slow is right shift!
If I recall
It's A/Z. EDIT TO SAY: Whoops. That was up/down... Fuck. +/- perhaps?
Was fucking retarded. You had to be GOOD AT DOCKING... To be able to get the funds for a docking computer... Hmmm... Messrs Braben and the other geezer didn't think that through.
One of the best games ever though. Too bad there's nothing like it now (and if you say Freelancer, I will laugh at you.)
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Tue 22 Apr 2003, 10:43,
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Was fucking retarded. You had to be GOOD AT DOCKING... To be able to get the funds for a docking computer... Hmmm... Messrs Braben and the other geezer didn't think that through.
One of the best games ever though. Too bad there's nothing like it now (and if you say Freelancer, I will laugh at you.)
enough of this retro games nonsense
I'm off to play day of the tentacle ;)
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Tue 22 Apr 2003, 10:54,
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I LOVED Day Of The Tentacle!
Also Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, Loom, and all the Monkey Islands...
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Tue 22 Apr 2003, 10:56,
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got them all!
I've just finished Sam n Max, day of the tentacle is next, then onto monkey island, yay! for lucasarts!
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Tue 22 Apr 2003, 11:00,
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