One of my all-time favorites, Ultima Underworld, had a fatal flaw. I'm guessing it was hardware specific and not on everyone's PC. After spending a couple of weeks with the game, some items from my inventory floated out of my backpack and into the air...with no way to retrieve them and no way to win at that point. I called up tech support and they said there were other similar problems reported (although specifics varied). They sent me a patch, and then played the game to completion. (After restarting)
Hugh -----Original Message----- From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Vintage games w/fatal flaws Chris Newman wrote: > Mines of Titan by Westwood / Infocom from 1989 comes to mind. The game plot > involves travelling to cities on the surface of Titan. The key city, > Procesnium, was expected to be discovered and entered via an underground > network. However, if you find the city on the surface of the planet and > attempt to enter it the game freezes and throws up strange graphics chunks > in the display window. At the time I assumed I had a bad copy, or played it > on an incompatable machine (Tandy), etc. I went back to this game, on and > off, for years but was hit with the same problem. I found out only recently > that the problem is a coding bug. From Usenet: "Because of an obvious yet uncorrected bug, the game will crash and burn every time you enter Proscenium the normal way from the overland map. Instead, you are required to go through a lengthy lava vents dungeon to enter the city. Then the game will give you some text that will leave you wondering why the hell the bug wasn't corrected--it would've been so easy, given the plot twist revealed in the text." With this knowledge, you should go back and try to finish the game; it's a great game. -- Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
