Star Control Discussion Board

I never beat the game when I first played on a 80x386 PC in the early nineties. Years later, when I discovered the UQM remake and online walkthroughs, I finally beat the game. I don't recall if I cheated on the Zex beast mission or not, but I did have problems with the Syreen/Mycon mission and had t...

Hello and welcome to the SCDB. SC2 / UQM is a great game. Mining can be tedious indeed. I always thought they could just double the yield per planet landing, double flagship cargo pod capacity or raise star base market prices in order to get your flagship maxed out quicker (or a combination of those...

I once heard a saying, "If you are bored it is because you are boring." (emphasis added). There might be a kernel of truth to that saying in that if you can't find something to occupy your time then chances are that you are not very creative to begin with.

Disturbing...

Well, looks like I was wrong. These two guys weren't US citizens, so unlikely to care all that much about domestic politics. Actually they were citizens, at least one of them. They pretty much grew up here from ages 8 and 15. The younger had just received citizenship a year ago and seemed to be on ...

So, yesterday there was a terrorist attack near the finishing line of the Boston Marathon. At least three people are dead and 150 or so are injured, many severely. Though no official word is out, I strongly suspect that this was domestic. As I said elsewhere , I would bet at very very steep odds th...

Alvarin wrote:Oh wow, Impossible Mission!! So many hours lost...

Nice! What platform did you play it on?

this is games where you have games in your mind but you can't make them, here's mine: A game where you play ao oni...THE ao oni! you hunt players and it plays the ao oni music when you are close to a hunam Ok, I get it now. I had never heard of the Japanese "Ao Oni" horror game before. http://www.y...

Are not all games, technically speaking, fantasy?

I'm glad you told us what it is because it would be hard to discern otherwise.

I haven't played MC in a while but I have a few single player saved worlds. Perhaps I'll post some pics of the more interesting structures.