Re: When Is A Game Old?

Justisaur  <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote:

Megatraveler, there's a game I liked I haven't thought about in a long
time.  Are you sure at least MegaTraveller wasn't 3.5" it was released
in 1990 as far as I can tell, and that seems a bit late for 5.25"?  But
I could be wrong, that's 34 years ago.

Yah, my copy of MegaTraveller 1 came on 5.25" disks.  I have them in
of those disk cases you can flip through sitting on a shelf, so I had
them in my hands before writing that.  (Otherwise I probably would have
forgotten I had them.)  They have 3.0 version numbers hand written on
the labels with a black marker, so I'm guessing they probably were made
sometime after 1990.

Games on 3.5" disks didn't really become the norm until 1992 or so
when the PC game market really got going.  Before than though some
games shipped in both 5.25" and 3.5" versions, like the first two Wing
Commander games.  My copy of Dragon Wars actually came with both 3.5"
and 5.25" disks.

One complicating factor was that 5.25" disks came in 360K or 1.2M versions
while 3.5" disks had 720K and 1.44M versions.  I'm guessing all my 5.25"
PC games are on 360K disks as that was the lowest common denomitor,
and they weren't particularily big games.

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