The first issue of MacAddict (you know, the one with the big Apple on the front cover of the magazine ;))

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Has anyone here in EV land made some kind of tribute to MacAddict, for getting so many of us onto this band wagon? I myself can't remember where I got into this thing very well... it was either some CD full of games my dad was backing up, or straight off the internet with a little 14.4, but I can't think how I would have found it there in the first place.

I do remember sitting for hours at a time, surfing the old site for plug-ins and waiting painfully for them to come to me.

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Dang, I seem to be the only one who got it off of a SOMC cd in 99. I didn't start playing until this June. I was pretty stupid, ne?

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Yes, I can relate to most of you, though I despise MacWorld. Evil commies!

I got EV of a MacAddict™ (Who-hoo!) Disc , and was hooked after I figured out that I could buy new ships. I was 19 at the time... Sniff, sniff. This brings back memories of times long gone by... I WANNA GO BACK TO 7th GRADE! WAAAA! But in all fairness, EV would have had less "initial fans" had MacAddict™ not put it on the Disc in '96.

BTW- I noticed that last months Disk had EV on it too, thought it was rated a "Possible hit" while Ares was "must have." This is the only time I wanted to do harm to an 'Addict staff member, and this episode made up for the ones I'd missed over the years.

As for those who don't play EV as much anymore- I can definitly relate to you as well. EV has touched, me, in every place, and I love tweaking with her gears.
To me, Escape Velocity is almost immortal- it will be cherished forever within the walls of my 40gig Harddrive, to be eternaly revered with awe. I am unfit to touch its proggaming, I use copies and other such replaceables instead. EV will remain in my heart for all time, it is the measuring stool for all other games: Past, present, or future. Nothing has neared it's sanctity, it's absolute power. It will be played 500 years from now, and I'm proud to own it, $20 shareware nonwithstanding.

I don't remember where I got EV first, but I remember looking at all the controls and decided not to play. Later (half-year, year, 2 years) I decided to play it, so I printed out the controls... and loved it!

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Yeah, I did the exact same thing. I waited a year and a half.

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Originally posted by Cyber-Dragon:
I was 19 at the time... Sniff, sniff. This brings back memories of times long gone by... I WANNA GO BACK TO 7th GRADE! WAAAA!

You were 19 in 7th grade?

The first time I played it, I didn't know any of the controls... I hovered above Levo pushing random buttons until pirates killed me. After I figured out how to land and hyper-jump, I began thnking that the green arrows that show up on the map when considering a mission showed where friendly ships were, and the red arrows that showed up after accepting a mission were sytems where enemy ships were. Then, once, I dared enter a red-arrow system, landed quickly to get away from the enemy ship I thought was there, and saw that I had completed a mission. Then I realized what the arrows meant...

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My brother downloaded the disks about 5 years ago at school, and I've been addicted since.

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Originally posted by Cyber-Dragon:
EV has touched, me, in every place, and I love tweaking with her gears

Whoa, hey, time out, that's nasty! None of us want to hear about any of that! Its just a game! I don't want to know about what you do with "plug-ins"... shudder

No "heavy rocket" jokes, either. Sheesh.

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lol. Good one EVula. I just checked back through my old disks and found EV 1.00 in one of them, early 96. Wish I'd have found it then....

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I remember stumbling onto it off a website; pre-1999. I played and cheated, quickly. I may have even deleted it. Then I went I became a freshmen and met my first die-hard Mac friend. He told me I had to download EV. I did and my life was changed forever. I have been playing ever since. And every time I step into the Enturius II I am filed with pride. Yippee for EV!

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Oh shut up, you're the one who's sick minded enough to think like that...

And no, I just think 7th was the best grade.

MacAddict. 1997.

Thought it was another stargazing game, so I played "Space Cab" for a while.

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In fact, I too, installed EV from a MacAddict CD in 1996. I musta been the first version. I played it a while and it seemed cool. But for me it was hard. I didn't know about commodity trading or trade routes. it took HOURS and HOURS to get enough cash just for an argosy. I remember all those vain attempts of doing the astex mission in a courier (yikes!) anyway. It's been quite a while since I first played the game.

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