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[Mighty Midget]

Well, it seems you Abandonheads have spoken. Uno DOS to rule them all and all that. It was interesting to see that a few thought the arcades era was the golden age.

BTW: The Babbage option was for those who couldn't get far enough back in time. For real sentimentality. A serious option written as a jest. I guess everybody agree that it takes a few tries to get it right, also so with gaming.

I suggest this poll to be closed, and be left as a testimony that Abandonia is indeed the home of abandoned DOS-games.

[Office_Monk]

Maybe I'm a little late for my contribution...

To me, it's as follows:

Golden Age of gaming:
1977 - 1994 (or Atari - Sega 32X and everything inbetween)

Silver Age of Gaming
1994 - 1997 (or Saturn - Dreamcast and everything inbetween)

Modern Age:
1998 - now

I voted C64, simply because it was my first home computer (ok before the C64 I had this Ping Pong tv game console with pistol) and had a wide range of games that looked amazing. Yie-Ar Kung Fu simply ruled back in 1985 (I was going to insert a nunchacku smiley, but I must've seen it on another board...)

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Well, it seems you Abandonheads have spoken. Uno DOS to rule them all and all that. It was interesting to see that a few thought the arcades era was the golden age.

BTW: The Babbage option was for those who couldn't get far enough back in time. For real sentimentality. A serious option written as a jest. I guess everybody agree that it takes a few tries to get it right, also so with gaming.

I suggest this poll to be closed, and be left as a testimony that Abandonia is indeed the home of abandoned DOS-games.
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The hard part about gaming with the difference engine is that you are severely in the sorts of games that you could play. The only one that I could think of is a game like Scorched Earth, where to artillery guns are trying to shoot each other, but only if you can connect a DE to a plotter (watch the pen as it traces a line towards your opponent). Lunar lander is also possible, but for the problem of no one knowing what a lunar lander was.