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GoG's current giveaway!
https://www.gog.com/en/#giveaway

rms
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rms <[email protected]> wrote:

GoG's current giveaway!
https://www.gog.com/en/#giveaway

rms

Passed since it's not my genre. Also, crossposted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure. :P
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On 10/31/2025 7:21 AM, rms wrote:

GoG's current giveaway!
https://www.gog.com/en/#giveaway

Thanks rms!
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On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 07:19:03 -0700, Justisaur <[email protected]>
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On 10/31/2025 7:21 AM, rms wrote:

GoG's current giveaway!
https://www.gog.com/en/#giveaway

It's not the first time this game has been free on GOG. I doubt it
will be the last either.

But it's not really one, I think, worth grabbing. (Well, unless you
have some religious motive to increase the size of your video gaming
library that has nothing to do with reason). It's gameplay is pretty
poor --very trial and error, very little to actually do, a lot of
wandering back and forth-- and its story isn't that interesting, and
isn't that well told to boot. It's pretty (or, anyway, I remember it
being visually pleasing back when I played it five years ago; I don't
know how well it's stood the test of time) but not overwhelmingly so.
It's a C-tier game and it doesn't surprise me that it's been given
away for free so often. Very few people actually would want to pay for
it. ;-)




(wait... have I caught up with the backlog?)


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On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:53:02 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant)
wrote:

rms <[email protected]> wrote:

GoG's current giveaway!
https://www.gog.com/en/#giveaway

rms

Passed since it's not my genre. Also, crossposted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure. :P

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PW <[email protected]> wrote at 03:08 this Monday (GMT):

On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:53:02 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant)
wrote:

rms <[email protected]> wrote:

GoG's current giveaway!
https://www.gog.com/en/#giveaway

rms

Passed since it's not my genre. Also, crossposted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure. :P

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there are other text newsgroups that exist.

- pw

The e-s hierarchy is pretty active, tho I'm not sure if thats propagated outside of es
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On Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:08:11 -0700, PW <[email protected]> wrote:

Hey Ant - I didn't realize that there was another active newsgroup
relating to games. Do you know of any others? Cool! The flight sim
group and others I used to subsribe to are dead. Not even sure if
there are other text newsgroups that exist.

None of the rest are really _active_ but they do see the OCCASSIONAL
post:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategy
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg

Mostly, though, it's stuff that's cross-posted to .action though. For
whatever reason, *.action has become the default for computer gaming
on Usenet.

Newsgrouper https://newsgrouper.org/ is a great way to explore new
groups. Use its search tool to look for groups that might match your
interest, then go see if there's any activity. Sadly, more often than
not the answer will be 'no' (or the activity there won't be related to
the group's charter), but that doesn't mean there CAN'T be. There are
a lot of lurkers out there, just waiting for somebody to start a new
thread ;-)


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PW <[email protected]> wrote:

On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:53:02 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant)
wrote:

rms <[email protected]> wrote:

GoG's current giveaway!
https://www.gog.com/en/#giveaway

rms

Passed since it's not my genre. Also, crossposted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure. :P

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there are other text newsgroups that exist.

I crossposted in case anyone still read in there. ;)
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Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:08:11 -0700, PW <[email protected]> wrote:

Hey Ant - I didn't realize that there was another active newsgroup
relating to games. Do you know of any others? Cool! The flight sim
group and others I used to subsribe to are dead. Not even sure if
there are other text newsgroups that exist.

None of the rest are really _active_ but they do see the OCCASSIONAL
post:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategy
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg

Mostly, though, it's stuff that's cross-posted to .action though. For whatever reason, *.action has become the default for computer gaming
on Usenet.

Newsgrouper https://newsgrouper.org/ is a great way to explore new
groups. Use its search tool to look for groups that might match your interest, then go see if there's any activity. Sadly, more often than
not the answer will be 'no' (or the activity there won't be related to
the group's charter), but that doesn't mean there CAN'T be. There are
a lot of lurkers out there, just waiting for somebody to start a new
thread ;-)

That is why we should post in those too. ;)
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On 11/3/2025 12:00 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:

PW <[email protected]> wrote at 03:08 this Monday (GMT):

On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:53:02 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant)
wrote:

rms <[email protected]> wrote:

GoG's current giveaway!
https://www.gog.com/en/#giveaway

rms

Passed since it's not my genre. Also, crossposted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure. :P

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Hey Ant - I didn't realize that there was another active newsgroup
relating to games. Do you know of any others? Cool! The flight sim
group and others I used to subsribe to are dead. Not even sure if
there are other text newsgroups that exist.

- pw

comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg is still barely active, Spalls posts there occasionally, and there seems to be a lot of talk of Wizardry. I
haven't bothered posting there in quite some time, but I was posting
there first as I'm more (or at least used to be) of an RPG fan. Though they've blended so much since way back now at least that there's lots of overlap.
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