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  ReBoot

   • s******j@**.com
     03/01/1996 00:00:000 UTC

     The ABC Saturday Morning cartoon "ReBoot" is really getting strange and
     good.

     There are plenty of new episodes and wicked fun.

     Also . . . the villainous penguin from "The Wrong Trousers" keeps
     showing

     up, in computer animated form.

       • s******j@**.com
         04/01/1996 00:00:000 UTC

         Forgot to mention:

         Last Saturday's episode also had caricatures of the two leads from

         "The X Files." Very strange and very funny.

            • a****4@f******.********n.ca
              06/01/1996 00:00:000 UTC

              Stefan E. Jones (s******j@**.com) writes:

              > Forgot to mention:

              > Last Saturday's episode also had caricatures of the two leads
              from

              > "The X Files." Very strange and very funny.

              Ah, yes, the episode is called "Trust No One". I've yet to see
              it,

              but I've heard *lots* of good reviews.

              ttyl

              Farrell

              p.s. How can it be...we are discussing science fiction?!?!?!?!
              Is that

              allowed in this group?!?!?

       • a****4@f******.********n.ca
         04/01/1996 00:00:000 UTC

         Stefan E. Jones (s******j@**.com) writes:

         > The ABC Saturday Morning cartoon "ReBoot" is really getting
         strange and good.

         > There are plenty of new episodes and wicked fun.

         > Also . . . the villainous penguin from "The Wrong Trousers" keeps
         showing

         > up, in computer animated form.

         Good show, it is produced in Vancouver B.C., Canada. Watch for the

         "in-jokes", they are very funny! For example, they reproduced the
         Stargate

         from the movie of the same name...down to the exact same glyphs! The
         one

         that was on locally recently was when Dot Matrix (That hot, green
         chick!)

         was planning Enzo's birthday party...and they were auditioning
         acts...and

         the two animated characators from Dire Straight's "Money for
         Nothing"

         video get sandbagged...or Phong, the raytracing texture that became
         a

         charactor!

         More great Canadian Content!

         ttyl

         Farrell

       • d********t@***.com
         09/01/1996 00:00:000 UTC

         Why, Stefan Jones, how are you? I still have a copy of a game called

         Worldsmiths. It was the "master of Orion" of it's day...

         --Danny--

            • s******j@**.com
              09/01/1996 00:00:000 UTC

              In article <4ctpvg$***@n*******.****.***l.com>,

              DannyBrat wrote:

              >Why, Stefan Jones, how are you? I still have a copy of a game
              called

              >Worldsmiths. It was the "master of Orion" of it's day...

              >--Danny--

              So, which Danny is this? Semmel?

              Oye. Masters of Orion. I'm playing it right now, getting it out
              of my

              system before going back to school.

                 • g*****o@j******.****t.net
                   11/01/1996 00:00:000 UTC

                   Stefan E. Jones (s******j@**.com) wrote:

                   : In article <4ctpvg$***@n*******.****.***l.com>,

                   : DannyBrat wrote:

                   : Oye. Masters of Orion. I'm playing it right now, getting
                   it out of my

                   : system before going back to school.

                   I love that game. I usually win without buying a single
                   warship! All I

                   build are scouts and transports. You can only do this with
                   the Humans.

                   You just make friends with everybody and nobody will ever
                   attack you. You

                   get all sorts of extra income and resource points from
                   trading, that's

                   your special power. Towards the middle and end of the
                   game, everybody

                   will start voting for you. For starters, everybody likes
                   and trusts you.

                   Also, you have no fleet to demolish other races with.

                   One time while playing at hard level, I only had 8
                   planets. I've made

                   contact and made trade pacts with all the races except for
                   one. Of course

                   it's the biggest one. So towards the end of the game. I
                   saw this fleet

                   heading towards my small empire of Humans. It turns out to
                   be high speed

                   scouts. I made contact and started a large trade contract
                   with them. The

                   following turn the council voted me to be Emperor. Not
                   bad!

                   I just recently completed an old time favorite game. It's
                   Star Control 2.

                   I found it bundled with Star Control 1 on CD for only $9!
                   The new game,

                   Star Control 3 is comming out mid-Feburary. It's supposed
                   to be a

                   knock-out. Both version 1 & 2 won several game awards. I
                   can't wait till

                   I get it.

                   Glen