Zorac (zorac) wrote,
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  • Music: Vonda Shepard /Searchin' My Soul. (*not* the Ally McBeal version)

The remains of the day

Got home again at around 9:30 and just mooched around for an hour or so before heading into town. Picked up a couple of PC/Mac hybrid games for home and laptop play (Quake 3 & Warcraft 3, £30 for both) before heading to OxCon. I'm not actually a hardcore gamer, so it was just a chance to play a few random and interesting games (not the Diplomacy tournament). Much fun was had (partly due to a healthy dose of beginner's luck). Sloped out late afternoon for some more retail therapy - Buck Rodgers Flash Gordon and Tron DVDs at £20 for the two - classic! More curry in the evening, complete with a game of Mao at the table (and some drinks that were ordered on arrival only turning up after we'd finished eating. No tips for them...)
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Buck Rogers

pinguthegreek

January 25 2003, 15:34:26 UTC 18 years ago

Are we talking the early 80's film that I remember very well ( Ok, so I was drooling over the guy playing Buck Rogers ) or the classic cinema serial ?

Re: Buck Rogers

zorac

January 25 2003, 17:39:25 UTC 18 years ago

Urg. Extreme brain-fade. What I actually meant was Flash Gordon (hey, easy mistake to make) - the ultimate pulp sci-fi: Cheesy plot, music by Queen, Evil Max von Sydow, a James Bond, a Blue Peter presenter and Brian Blessed (DIVE!)

Re: Buck Rogers

jiggery_pokery

January 27 2003, 15:07:40 UTC 18 years ago

There is a Buck Rogers games, but it's actually pretty rubbish. Its only saving grace is that there's an obvious piece of improvement via improper gameplay to be made: not having the planets travel through the Solar System using their traditional orbits - that is, roll randomly to see if they skip from one orbit to the other. Sometimes you can get them to crash into each other or the Sun this way. Sadly this is about 90% of the entertainment to be had from the game. :-(