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[mkrco]

You know, this game just randomly popped into my head a couple of days ago, and it was just driving me nuts that I couldn't remember what it was called. So after I wrote that post I went to bed, and when I woke up in the morning I remembered the name all of a sudden. It's called Millennia: Altered Destinies. It's a 1995 game from Take 2 Interactive. I even managed to find a place that still had it.. [removed link] - sold game ~Luchsen

And it seems to run very well in XP under dosbox. This is truly one of the most original games out there. And it is pretty obscure too, I remember it wasn't a big hit at all when it came out, and I just found it randomly floating around a BBS. This game's a real brainteaser, and it's got quite a twist with the time travel bit. Much of the dialogue is pretty funny. And there is a perverse sense of pleasure you get from guiding a race of people, living on an cold icy world for thousands of years. Guiding them all the way up to the brink of space travel, only to then go back in time and erase the invention of fire from their history and watch them disappear real quick. It's not as easy game, but once you start thinking in 4 dimensions you get the hang of it eventually. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone.

[Dave]

Millennia: Altered Destinies (1995) by Take two interactive
You can buy it at Amazon and Cd Access.

[cackfog]

hi, looking for an old game, mid 90's i think, i have this realy vivid memory of it but cant remember the title, here goes

your character was taken aboard a spaceship (i forget why, but i remember u weren't there by choice), your only companion was this wierd little alien head hologram thing that gave you advice, there where various screens (rooms) within the ship for differnt purposes. The main objective was to seed four (i think four) different species throughout the galaxy and guide there development in such a way that the balance of power is always even ( i seem to recall the manual saying this was nearly impossible, i certainly couldnt do it but i was only a kid ). Your ship could travel forward and backwards in time aswell as to any star system in the galaxy, allowing you to alter the historys of each species to aid them (or to stop them becoming too powerful).

A few detials i remember very well;

The rooms in the ship where the main control room, galaxy/time line viewing room, some sort of fuel room, and a landing pod that could be used to fly down to the planets you'd seeded(although i could never work the damn thing).

when the ship was low on fuel you would have to go into orbit of a gas giant, it was quite a cool little animation (for its day) from the fuel room, if you stayed in orbit too long the ship would start to take damage, the window would crack etc..

I remember there was an underwater race, they went extinct early on in their development so i traveled back in time to the piont they all died out and comunicated with them, their leader told me they were bieng eaten by giant crabs (or something), he said there warriors spears weren't enough as they would have to stab the crabs three times to kill them, by choosing the right options in the conversation you 'invent' the trident, saving the underwater people from the giant crabs, you could also then take the trident and travel further back in time and give it to them earlier in their history, making them more powerful in the future.

anyway, sorry for the realy long description, i've been looking for this game for nearly a year and i'm starting to think i dreamt it!! but if anybody can help me it'll be you guys, thanks in advance, good gaming!

Cackfog

[RRS]

Millennia: Altered Destinies?
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/mi...ered-destinies
http://www.hotud.org/component/conte...strategy/20413

Can I get myself a cookie now?

[Saccade]

Originally Posted by RRS

Millennia: Altered Destinies?
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/mi...ered-destinies
http://www.hotud.org/component/conte...strategy/20413

Can I get myself a cookie now?

Most definitely.

Now this is a good game

[cackfog]

you can have all the cookies you want my friend, i will build u a cookie factory with my bare hands, you are litrely my hero!! think thats my plans for 2010 sorted now then, goodbye outside world!

thanks again

[cackfog]

damn, um anybody know where i can download it? i dont mind paying, thanks again (i've gone abit exitable now)

[Saccade]

http://www.amazon.com/Millennia-Alte.../dp/B0009G0DFC
since you don't mind paying

idk if this is something we can approve here yet.

[cackfog]

nowhere to download it there, guess im just gonna have to wait for it to be shipped then, nevermind, thanks again for all your help, you guys are awesome!

[Saccade]

I didn't say you couldn't download it...
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