I remember when I was really young on the Apple II playing games like Taipan (which was a pirates / smuggling game) and Chivalry (where you were a knight who wandered the land and competed in...

I believe that IS the test. Just go through each of those 20 items and score yourself a 0,1 or 2 as the dude has said.

BTW I scored a 4 which I don't believe makes me saintly, just not...

Back when I worked for the Australian Defence Department I was writing code that simulated warships communicating with each other. During testing I had 4 pc's talking to each other via UDP and TCP...

What a pleasant surprise she was!! :)

We've just equalled our record number of days in a row above the old 100 degrees F and the forecast says it will continue for at least the next seven days. It's supposed to be autumn here...

Australia and proud of it! Happy New Year everyone!

-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"I'll be back"

"He had to split"

"I had to let him go"

"Hasta la vista, baby"

Yeah I had to stretch a bit for a sport game because I'm not really a fan of the genre.

Turn-based strategy and RPG's are very different genres of games - in turn-based strategy the object is...

Yes that is what I was wanting to discuss, RW.

An RTS that was rather different to most was Battle Realms where you could only advance past a certain 'level' of soldier by skirmishing, rather than...

Hi Infarction and thanks for the input to this discussion,

I agree that Starcraft is a fantastic RTS, but the reason why I included Warcraft in my original list and not Starcraft was that I...

I forgot the Simulation genre, of which SimCity would certainly be the forerunner. And Civilisation was certainly a good call for the Turn-based Strategy genre.



Yes, I forgot TA so that's...

But it is made up of many countries, none of which are an island. Australia is a single country made up of one main island, a smaller island and several tiny islands.

Hi all,

I was wondering what everyone thought were the most influential computer games of all time? It doesn't matter what platform, but I thought I'd break it down into genres, so here are some...

Yes but the mainland is an island - the biggest in the world.

Hi jwentig,

I always find your comments interesting and I respect your ideas, but I would like to comment if I may on what you've said.



Scientists the world over agree that CO2 emissions...

Actually my point was that the Kyoto Agreement will have little effect on climate change without the US. :P

And on the topic of economics, things like energy costs might rise, but what other...

On the topic of climate change, Australia's new Prime Minister, Mr Kevin Rudd, has promised to ratify the Kyoto Agreement as one of his first orders of business. This means that the US is the only...

The Oxford Dictionary defines racism as:



IMHO Josh's discussion, entitled Race and Intelligence is racist according to 2 above. I find this discussion inherently offensive and find it...

Australians are very proud of the fact that our mainland is roughly three times the size of Greenland and is in fact an island, being completely surrounded by water. Greenland is the second largest...

Ahhh the sega megadrive!! I loved sonic the hedgehog :D

I've been thinking about this since my last post when I was in a bit of a hurry...

Not only AstroBoy, but also Battle of the Planets (G-Force?), TMNT, Batman, XMen, Speed Racer, Transformers,...

AstroBoy!!

I received the following email the other day and thought it was worth sharing. I chuckled but maybe it's just my stupid sense of humour... :twisted:
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Hi dynarial,

I'm just curious as to your line of thought here. Why is it that you are


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