imagine star citizen with 80's graphics

[Thugari]

I thought that this was a pretty cool thread, so with permission, I am posting it here for test to see.
https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/357471/retro-what-if-star-citizen-was-announced-in-the-80-s#latest

 

[Lythan]

If it looked like that, it would blow peoples minds sky high... I mean, even Starlancer doesn't look that good! I remember playing a game from the 80ies, it was a racing game... in green and black! it was all made out of lines :D

 

[DeepDrum]

Wing Commander 1990.
I bought my first PC in 1987 or so.
I got it home and wanted to do a design drawing.
All I had was a curser. c:\
SO off I go and buy a mouse and a design program.
I messed up one line of the config.sys when I installed the mouse and had literally nothing.
I placed a case of beer beside me and all the manuals I could find.
By morning I had it up and running. I started from scratch with a full reformat and followed the manuals.
I learned a whole lot that night.
Then I got a flight sim.
I got it home and it wanted a graphics card (Hercules graphics card)
That gave me 5 lines that represented my plane.
My first hand me down machine was a Commodore Pet back in the seventies.
It had 8 k ram.
Space invaders was king.

 

[DeepDrum]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_(video_game)

A few pics of the original above.
It's an interesting read if you weren't there and did not play it. Check all ther SC similarities.

 

[Thugari]

some interesting retro stuff is Amigaforever.com
I use it at times to play some cool old games.

 

[Black Sunder]

Hyper Vanguard Force is literally this :)

 

[Cherokeedog]

I can almost feel the Xenomorph chasin' my ugly arse when I look at those pictures.

 

[Thugari]

well if you want instant nostalgia there is always the worlds smallest fps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkriegerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger
you can see it played on youtube, or try it yourself. It's KKrieger.

 

[JackAvalon]

Hyper Vanguard Force is literally this :slight_smile:

Nah bruh. Gotta play dat Starmade. ;)

 

[Bruttle]

I was just getting into the video game scene by the late 80's. I built my first computer in 88 with my dad. I was 11 at the time. It had a sweet CGA monitor (way better than those monochrome ones) and a HUGE 40 mb hard drive (yep, megabite). That thing was so noisy, but I didn't care. I could fit all the shareware I could get my hands on in that thing. I could just make a new spot on EZ menu for each game subdirectory (cause DOS didn't have a GUI yet, it was all dos prompt commands) and I could fit them all in.

One of those shareware games that I remember fondly, was actually a space exploration game. I spent weeks in that thing. It was amazing. It actually pulled me away from other games like my beloved Commander Keen (from ID software, the company that perfected what are now known as FPS games). This amazing bit of space exploration was called EGA Trek.

And now, allow me to present a piece of my childhood...

Fuck, I'm old... "back in mah day... we didn't have those damn-fangled GUI's..." "we had to type in commands like 'dir' and 'copy con go.bat' "

 

[DeepDrum]

[QUOTE="Fuck, I'm old... "back in mah day... we didn't have those damn-fangled GUI's..." "we had to type in commands like 'dir' and 'copy con go.bat' "[/QUOTE]

I was thinking that just yesterday while typing commands into the dos window. I knew every command and switch in dos before it hit version 3.
Sometimes it is a whole lot quicker than click, click, click, click type, click click click....

Old? My generation had to teach our dads computer stuff.

 

[Blind Owl]

[QUOTE="Fuck, I'm old... "back in mah day... we didn't have those damn-fangled GUI's..." "we had to type in commands like 'dir' and 'copy con go.bat' "
I was thinking that just yesterday while typing commands into the dos window. I knew every command and switch in dos before it hit version 3.
Sometimes it is a whole lot quicker than click, click, click, click type, click click click....

Old? My generation had to teach our dads computer stuff.

I was so fucking pissed when my older bro upgraded us from DOS to Win95. God I loved DOS. Haha.

 

[BUTUZ]

Don't need to imagine anything just go play Elite Dangerous! :D