but I agree that the Vell-os plot line was an awful idea, and I wonder how many players abandoned 'Nova – and how many registrations Ambrosia lost – because of players thinking that the Vell-os plot line was all the game had to offer. I liked 'Nova a lot – I liked that the world felt (ever so slightly) more alive, I liked the scope of the world, I liked the number and variety of the craft and outfits, I even liked various outfits requiring government approval to purchase and government craft opening fire on your craft if they detected that you were using unauthorised or illegal outfits. 'Override is on the list of classic Mac OS games I intend to play or replay, just behind an awful lot of others.

> Really? You should try it if you can, it's great. I still have a pilot file from an early (I think the first) version of 'Escape Velocity Nova' which featured a 'bug' which enabled me to play multiple contradictory plot lines to completion.Īnd don't forget 'Barrack'! Or 'Apeiron'!

'Escape Velocity Override' is the only game in its series that I never completed, because of the registration 'incentive' – 'register or Captain Hector will steal X% of your credits (even before the thirty day trial period has elapsed)' was a surprise that left a nasty taste in my mouth, and I never went back to the game after that. I might still have somewhere an archive of issues of 'The Ambrosia Times' before my family had a connection to the Internet, reading and rereading the Bitwise Operator column of The Ambrosia Times was my window into programming which went beyond what was taught in Dave Mark's 'Learn C on the Mac' (although most of the content in those columns went way over my head, and I never programmed a game for the classic Mac OS which wasn't programmed either in Klik & Play or, later, in METAL BASIC).Ī game I recently described as 'Poor Man's Sky' )

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