Okay, here's another thread to admit all the dumb stuff you used to do when you first got EV.
As usual, I'll start.
The first time I saw Escape Velocity was when I got my new computer..
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It was a Mac Performa, and compared to my old 256 color mac, it was da bomb. It came with a CD called 300 Great Games for Mac, and included Maelstrom, Apeiron, and Escape Velocity. After exploring some of the many other games, I double-clicked on EV. I pressed Enter Ship, skipping the documentation, and found a big blue dot, some asteriods, and a little white box. I flew around a little, and got bored, and quit.
Some time later, I followed the instuctions to land, and found some stuff. In the spaceport bar, I gambled away all my money, thinking it was my only source of income. Months later, I discovered the Mission Computer. I had accessed the map before, but never did anything with it. The Mission Computer opened my eyes to what this game was all about. Money! "Wow! 10,000 dollars for a single mission?!" I clicked on a mission to Earth, and left Levo. Opun looking at the map, a saw a dot and a little red arrow. I jumped around systems heading toward it and I made it! I got $10,000!!!! It was like I won the lottery or something.
Of course, the game wasn't copied onto my hard drive. So, everytime I played, I had to start over. I considered myself to be the best player ever every time I scraped together enough money to buy a courier. My dream was to fly an Argosy.
One day, my friend was over, and I showed him EV. He wanted me to bloww some thing up, so I bought a missile launcher and 10 missiles. We found a shuttlecraft to destroy, not noticing the Confed Cruiser right next to it. Swish! Boom! The other shuttle took a hit. My friend laughs out loud, while the torpedoes and proton bolts blow up my ship to smithereens. My friends laughs harder. "You idiot! I had 63,000 credits!" Why did you attack a Confed shuttle with a Cruiser right next to it?!!" Frankly, I was pissed.
Only this last January, after I got a G4, did I realize the magic of copying applications. "Oh my God!!!" I was ecstatic. And the rest is history. No, wait, that was history.
Okay, now that I shared my beginnig experience, I expect all of you to, too.
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I, the reader, by reading this hereby acknowledge that Rawzer, the writer, is cool.
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(This message has been edited by Rawzer (edited 09-02-2001).)
