Oolite Bulletins

Just came out of a conversation in the IRC channel:

I have suggested:

Turn-based First-person Flight-Sim
and
Duke Nukem 5: Dating Sim

CommanderSandJ came up with this:

A LinkedIn add-on for The Sims

Any more suggestions?

Real_Time Continental Drift Simulation?

A lawnmower simulator (with Flymo add-on)

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Real_Time Continental Drift Simulation?

LOL! So thats a Real-Time SimEarth then

DaddyHoggy wrote:

A lawnmower simulator (with Flymo add-on)

Sorry, I can't let you have that.

One of my favourite After Dark screensavers was Lawnmower Man.

SandJ wrote:

DaddyHoggy wrote:

A lawnmower simulator (with Flymo add-on)

Sorry, I can't let you have that.

One of my favourite After Dark screensavers was Lawnmower Man.

And it looks like somebody has actually thought of it too!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Excalibur-Video ... B0040QCSIM

Not quite the same thing, DH. That's a garden planner . Mind you wouldn't guess that from the name.

DaddyHoggy wrote:

SandJ wrote:

DaddyHoggy wrote:

A lawnmower simulator (with Flymo add-on)

Sorry, I can't let you have that.

One of my favourite After Dark screensavers was Lawnmower Man.

And it looks like somebody has actually thought of it too!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Excalibur-Video ... B0040QCSIM

Here, or here or even here.

It's a very old april fools joke from the ZX speccie days.

Facebook, the sim

Questionable Content (online comic) mentions an RPG based on web forums:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=176

Conkers available for the Wii, Kinect, and PS3 Move

I have been sat here trying to think of the most irrelevant, inappropriate and pointless human-game-replacement and I cannot get beyond Strip Poker. What possible point is there to a challenging game where a non-real person gets their pixellated clothes off? A game that relies totally on human presence and interaction for both the "strip" part and the "poker" part.

And yet, when I first got into computers, that was just the sort of thing that was doing the rounds, passed on via BBS or floppy disk, and getting everyone trying to find excuses to upgrade their computer to one with a CGA card.

Link to rather pathetic sample images: Strip Poker examples <--- Not suitable for work, despite being more tame than anything you can now see on daytime TV or roadside advertising posters.

Leather Goddesses of Phobos, anyone?

SandJ wrote:

Leather Goddesses of Phobos, anyone?

A hilarious classic from Steven Meretzky of Infocom fame. While I didn't play this one much it certainly sits amongst my complete collection of Infocom games, collecting dust.

ZMachine wrote:

It is pitch dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

And from their games manuals' hint section:

Save early, save often.

This latter one still applies today

Those were the times...

i remember Hovver Bovver, about as close to a lawnmower sim as you'd want.

Ooh, I've thought of one. "Windows Installer: The Game".

You take the role of Fred Gumby, Support Technician at Heartless Industrials and are tasked with installing and upgrading Windows software on a variety of PCs, with each allocated support call getting more challenging. Examples include "Corrupt Windows ME Registry", "Printing to a Unix print queue in Windows 2000", "Fixing a Vista graphics driver" and "Sharing folders between different versions of Windows".

It increases the enjoyment and challenge by randomly emulating the potential issues Fred comes across, such as stroppy users, impossible deadlines, defective hardware and keyboards with the wrong country keycaps on.

A fun, educational and rewarding experience for any aspiring IT professional.

"Windows Installer: The Game" only runs on XBox, Linux and Macs. Of course.