Oolite Bulletins

importing from sci fi films- star wars, star trek, and some not such as blackadder!! haha, and the whole thing is a bit douglas adams in places- well the name of the narcotic for starters

i would like to see something from logans run!

sandman........................

Ermm.. I'm having trouble thinking of anything memorable enough from that movie to include...

Peter Ustinov in the (I suppose) Congress was memorable.

But, seriously, could it have something to do with the fact that Logan's Run is not exactly a space ship movie?

And, even more seriously, there actually is a reference to it in RandomHits.oxp. One of the euphemisms for killing your victim in the random announcement text is to make sure that they "will be renewed on Carousel".

fantastic! thats that covered

"renewed on carousel" no less!

what about the man who fell to earth then?

Diziet Sma wrote:

Ermm.. I'm having trouble thinking of anything memorable enough from that movie to include...

Did the Austrailian version not include the nude scene with Jenny Agutter? As a young boy I found this to be particularly memorable!

phonebook wrote:

what about the man who fell to earth then?

Nothing specific springs to mind, although I have a feeling that there's a YAH advert for music by the famous wall-eyed singing cow "David Bovie" ...

Something from "Silent Running" would be nice... the last forest dome, drifting through space, maybe.
A great movie with a great soundtrack.

Then there's always "Dark Star"...

she was even more memorable in walkabout- and that was set in australia!

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Diziet Sma wrote:

Ermm.. I'm having trouble thinking of anything memorable enough from that movie to include...

Did the Austrailian version not include the nude scene with Jenny Agutter? As a young boy I found this to be particularly memorable!

Ok.. I confess THAT was memorable!!! It's not, however, something easily incorporated into Oolite! (at least, not in any way that wouldn't upset parents of younger Commanders!)

El Viejo wrote:

Something from "Silent Running" would be nice... the last forest dome, drifting through space, maybe.
A great movie with a great soundtrack.

Then there's always "Dark Star"...

There are the biodomes already!

Dark Star. Hmmm. A q-bomb that wants to explode after being targeted the 5th time just to be put back into safe mode?

Or...maybe...some waterball trumble

Screet

Player ships are limited to 16 hardpoints, and most are kitted with far less than that. And the only talking q-bombs are in Random Hits. (Even then, the bombs don't have much to say.)

Sorta rules out Bomb #20, doesn't it?

Cmdr Wyvern wrote:

Sorta rules out Bomb #20, doesn't it?

Nope.

There's missile rack, which ups the ante to max 48 missiles, and there's the chain missile launcher for future OSE, which takes it to 160 for the really big bad boys

So bomb nr.20 is entirely possible ...

Let there be light

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i think it would be rather fun to pilot 007's lotus esprit around the place

or baron samedi could crop up in the tionisla graveyard

or a bowler hat weapon


nope its no good

still thinking of Jenny Agutter

El Viejo wrote:

Something from "Silent Running" would be nice... the last forest dome, drifting through space, maybe.
A great movie with a great soundtrack.

I'm still fiddling with Hoopy Casino on the quiet... maybe I should add a poker game with robots... everything's better with robots!

At least one of B&B must have been a Douglas Adams fan - the original game has quite a few references - hence so does oolite.

I didn't buy the David Bovie album, I prefer to listen to Neutron Liver Uncle

(I wonder if somewhere out there in the Ooniverse there is a human world next to small furry animals, originally colonised by Scots. Then we could have several small furry animals grooving in a Krait with a Pict.)

@phonebook Think of Margaret Thatcher for a bit, that'll fix it

i met thatcher years ago! hated her, but she was impressive, not in the jenny agutta way thank god

totally random thought- but wouldnt a cartridge verison of elite for the vic 20 have been brilliant