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Re: Ixion, Pandora's Box, DarkWood, Elite...

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On Saturday, 31 May 2014 17:58:28 UTC+1, William McNee  wrote:
> On 31/05/2014 10:42, Necro Badger wrote:
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> >> I do although I never finished Pandoras Box ni Elite nor - how was
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> > That was called UIM or Ultra Intelligence Machine - never got very far with that one though, found it infuriatingly difficult. There was another one called Black Angel by 4th Dimension that I think was a bit like Elite... fuzzy memory though, not sure if I ever played it!
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> Indeed. In Black Angel many of the ships were named after birds. I got 
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> And UIM was a bit hard. Got a bit bored with that fairly quickly.

Been on a nostalgia trip to play some old games, and it's noticeable just how much more difficult games used to be back then (not least because if you get stuck you can usually google the answer), but also how the programmers weren't bothered about punishing or infuriating the player from the start. Games these days are a doddle in comparison.

And does anyone have the solution to Pandora's Box? I'm pretty sure I'm near completing it, but the final section has been driving me crackers!

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Re: Ixion, Pandora's Box, DarkWood, Elite... DaveH <david.hartburn@googlemail.com> - 2011-02-11 03:04 -0800
  Re: Ixion, Pandora's Box, DarkWood, Elite... Necro Badger <jef_bod@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-30 10:22 -0700
    Re: Ixion, Pandora's Box, DarkWood, Elite... Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2014-05-30 19:29 +0200
      Re: Ixion, Pandora's Box, DarkWood, Elite... Necro Badger <jef_bod@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-31 02:42 -0700
        Re: Ixion, Pandora's Box, DarkWood, Elite... William McNee <wullie@hame.the.noo.invalid> - 2014-05-31 17:58 +0100
          Re: Ixion, Pandora's Box, DarkWood, Elite... Gerald Holdsworth <nospam@hollypops.co.uk> - 2014-06-01 11:48 +0100
          Re: Ixion, Pandora's Box, DarkWood, Elite... Necro Badger <jef_bod@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-02 03:03 -0700
            Re: Ixion, Pandora's Box, DarkWood, Elite... Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2014-06-10 08:05 +0200
              Re: Ixion, Pandora's Box, DarkWood, Elite... Necro Badger <jef_bod@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-11 02:20 -0700
                Re: Ixion, Pandora's Box, DarkWood, Elite... Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2014-06-14 06:45 +0200
                Re: Ixion, Pandora's Box, DarkWood, Elite... Necro Badger <jef_bod@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-17 06:22 -0700
                Re: Ixion, Pandora's Box, DarkWood, Elite... Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2014-06-18 05:46 +0200
                Re: Ixion, Pandora's Box, DarkWood, Elite... Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2014-06-18 07:48 +0200

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