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Topic: What was Star Control 1 like? (Read 8471 times)
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Zarnium
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Mr. Owl ate my metal worm.
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It seems like we talk about how bad SC3 was more than we talk about it's much better prequel, Star Control 1.
I have never played it, and I was wondering what it's gameplay and graphics were like. If I'm not mistaken, it was for several different computers and the Sega Genesis, so in some screenshots the graphics look like they'd be on an Atari 2600 and others look as good as UQM.
I know the game is set in the first Ur-Quan war that the Alliance is supposed to have lost, but I'm guessing in this game you can actually win. As far as I know there was no deep storyline or alien communication like there was in SC2. But I think you still gathered resources and went to other planets to mine them?
I'm sure many other people besides me would like to know more about SC1.
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Zarnium
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I'd never be able to get that to work. I tried with SC3 before.
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Zarnium
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Ok, maybe I'll try with SC1 sometime.
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Anthony
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Star Control Lives!
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Oh, those old-school memories of Star Control 1. It was so long ago...
The frame rate is a lower frame rate (e.g. because it's DOS ), so the ships are slower too, and there isn't as much color depth as SC2. The full game involves colonizing, and moving your ships individually across asteroids, with the main objective consisting of destroying your opponents starbase; honestly, I've never mastered the full game; I always did the melee.
The Cyborg is a nice feature too; you can make both sides computer-controlled opponents, and choose the ships yourself, and they duke it by themselves.
It's a fun game, and it's still entertaining to press the space bar when selecting a ship in practice mode, to see the ship specs and bitmap pictures of each ship in detail. It's worth checking out.
EDIT: Cyborg, not Psytron. Psytron chooses for you; cyborg fights for you; computer controls completely. Indeed, it has been confirmed...
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Amiga_Nut
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Ok, here it is kiddies! http://4filehosting.com/file/39956/Amiga-Nut-zip.html 66MB.zip. Windows only, sorry Linux dudes. This is basically WinUAE coupled with all the games I ever installed on my home Amiga, and every .adf I created from the top games. Just unpack and drop the Amiga Emulator folder on the root of your c: drive. At first boot, the program will test your video card. You may get an error regarding missing kick.rom file. Just click ok, and then uncheck the “start in quick start mode.” (This will prevent error message in the future) In the configurations menu, just double click the setup you want. F12 gets you back to the menu anytime. All house-Amiga configurations will boot from a virtual HD. (my Amiga on a CD_ROM)
Games: --(.adf commercial)-- Armour Geddon Another World Shadow Of The Beast 1 Shadow Of The Beast 3 Dungeon Master 2 Lords Of Chaos Lords Of Chaos EK1 Lemmings Lemmings2 Mega Motion --(HD commercial)-- Eye Of The Beholder It Came From The Desert Monkey Island 1 Monkey Island 2 Star Control 1 There are at least 100 more, cool, freeware games on the HD in this collection. Also: sometimes the system may want a different disc or maybe you’re getting bold and learning to use this emulator with .adf’s you’ve downloaded. Don’t worry! Just press F12 and go to the floppy drive menu. There you can select Amiga disk files and place them in the virtual floppy drives. (All adf files are in the disk images folder.) Last thing: Games like Monkey Island and Star Control require a code wheel to play. Check out Paul’s Goodies folder for help on MI. I did not include info about the SC1 code wheel. You can find help online, or catch me in arena and give me your phrase and I will give you the answer. Then just keep your computer on! Sorry for that, but I can’t give it out. (Professor Zorg's Instant Etiquette Analyzer)-google it Have fun.
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« Last Edit: July 13, 2007, 09:22:48 am by Amiga_Nut »
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