30 Years, 30 Games: Day 30!

[Julio III]

Happy Birthday. This thread was a great read even though I hadn't heard of most of these games. It was great just hearing stories of what these games meant to you and you're experiences with them. Now that the thread is over there is going to be a little gap in my daily reading. Happy birthday again and thanks for an excellent 30day read!

[Lady Jaye]

Happy b-day, William!!!!! So, how does it feel to be in your thirties? What can I expect from 4 months from now?

[Rogmeister]

Happy birthday and thanks for a great thread. I wasn't that familiar with several of the games myself but that's one thing I actually enjoyed about it. Sometimes it gets boring reading about the same handful of games over and over...

[The-Bavis]

Happy Birthday and thanks for the good reads. I probably played half or less of the games mentioned, but I found all the stories to be interesting. Enjoyed all of the follow-on discussion as well.

To make you feel better (or worse), remember that your 30th birthday means you just finished your 30th year, so your done with that year already. Have a great 31st year.

[squidblatt]

Starflight is my most favorite game ever in the world! I'm so happy someone else remembers it. I even had a special chair that was like a captain's seat that I used whenever I played it. No game can ever come close to supplanting the place Starflight holds in my heart.

Well, maybe X-com.

But no! Not even that! Starflight is just too sacred to me.

Oh yeah. Welcome to the thirties. It's not so bad, but you do have to start watching that diet.

[o2william]

Happy b-day, William!!!!! So, how does it feel to be in your thirties? What can I expect from 4 months from now?

Well, your memory starts to go, you get the odd pain in the joints, your memory starts to go, you notice the occasional gray hair, your memory starts... hmm, what was I saying again?

Well, not really... I actually feel no different other than the odd feeling of "being in my thirties." That's just weird.

@squidblatt: Glad to hear you're a fellow Starflight fan. Try looking online sometime for a Starflight FAQ. Odds are that I wrote it. A few years ago I went through the game and noted every single scrap of info in it in a giant 70-page document that's been floating around the 'Net for years. I love the game so much, I just wanted to be sure I'd seen everything it had to offer. But even after all that, I couldn't find an artifact I remembered called "Adrynna's Gold." I can't believe how much they crammed into that game!

I really hope the Starflight III project gets finished one of these days...

[Nature Boy]

Happy 30th but, more importantly, thanks for undertaking this thread. It was a joy to read - not only from remembering the games from my own past, but by being exposed to games I hadn't heard of before. It's hard to pull a thread like this off without the usual jibbering that comes with discussing your favourites (as people tell you why you're wrong...), but you did it. Amazing job!

So, Starflight. One last game for me to seek out

[Lothars]

I just wanted to say that this is been an amazing topic,

I believe at one time i had played Starflight but i honestly don't really remember it

but I feel the same way with Final Fantasy VI/III and chrono trigger it's the two games those are my all time favorite games followed closely with Super Mario RPG

so I have to thank you for such great topic and i fully appreciate the countdown.

Thanks again and Happy Birthday

[Nz17]

I'm so sad so see this thread end. It was such a good read, viewing your memories of times gone by. Often I'd get that nostalgic feeling reading one of your tales, thinking of my own childhood and times spent playing these games.

On a side note, doesn't it seem those days of the early personal computers were so much purer in nature? Back then, the OS was so simple that we were really that much closer to the bare hardware of the machine. These days, software is so complex and emcompassing that it feels like one is removed from the pure computer environment. Ah, memories.