As I've said... I used to do a fair amount of on-line gaming.
And although I forced myself to leave most of that behind, there is one game that will forever remain on my machine... Maelstrom.
If there ever was a game to end all games for me.... it'd be this cheesy little number.
I believe I first found it back in...... mmmm.... 1996?... while I was in a "desktop publishing" class in high school.
Then the following year I didn't play it at all.... as a matter of fact, I don't recall ever even thinking about the game after I left that class.
Fast forward a few years to me living in Japan... the year 2000.
Sitting at my machine late one night and for some odd reason remembering this highly addictive little beast.
I did some searching around and managed to grab the free download.... and then silently played the rest of the night away.
It became something that I'd do when I didn't feel like playing other online games, or when my ISP went down and I couldn't get online.
Then I sort of forgot about it again after I formatted my machine.
Then I remembered yet again... and re-downloaded it in 2001.... and got 2 friends hooked on it as well.
At that point... I started to play at least one game of it a day.
That soon faded though....
and other things became more important to me... and I stopped playing again.
Then I moved to Iceland in 2002.
I formatted my machine a few months back, and the disk that I thought I had burned my Maelstrom scores onto, did not contain the data it was supposed to. (I ended up burning two of another back-up disk of mp3's, instead of one mp3 disk, and then the disk containing some odd and ends....... I'm an idiot, I know.)
So here I am... still playing Maelstrom nearly 7 years after originally seeing it.
Amazing how those old games still have their spunk and appeal, isn't it?
So anyway....
This is Maelstrom.
It's a really simple game.
Asteroids n' stuff fly all over the place..... and you shoot them.
Avoid and/or kill the bad guys when they come out....
Grab the good stuff when it pops up...
And do it all quickly for bonus points.
This is a screenshot.
woo! just makes ya wanna play, doesn't it! =D
Anyway...
Go download it ---> here
Play it a few times. It's a throw back to the old days of gaming simplicity... and you're sure to like it.
Despite my game or two that I play of it, each night...
I pretty much suck ass at it. heh.
My high score is in the low 400,000's.... and the highest wave I've ever reached is 26.
Weeee!... the seal of approval....
I feel so honored...
This is like winnin' a grammy.... but like.... 20 times better and 2,000 times less popular... wooo!
=D
hehe... I appreciate you checkin' it out.
The addiction continues..
Here's my current high score list:
Anyone else got a high score list to post up?
Les'see it!
