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Title: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Vasudan Commander on November 09, 2007, 07:03:30 am
It seems Freespace has a father.

http://au.gamespot.com/search.html?type=11&stype=all&tag=search%3Bbutton&om_act=convert&om_clk=search&qs=madspace (http://au.gamespot.com/search.html?type=11&stype=all&tag=search%3Bbutton&om_act=convert&om_clk=search&qs=madspace)

Look at the date. :blah:  You be the judge.
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Titan on November 09, 2007, 07:05:01 am
lol, but what is it? no pics, no nothin, just a name, a cheat, a download, and nothing else.
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: ShadowGorrath on November 09, 2007, 07:22:14 am
YOU !

Why don't you ever get online anymore ?!  ;)

And , why do you think that MadSpace is somehow connected to FreeSpace ?
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: lenard27 on November 09, 2007, 10:04:33 am
And , why do you think that MadSpace is somehow connected to FreeSpace ?

Probably because the title ends in Space.  But if FreeSpace's father was MadSpace, I hope that FS didn't get beaten as a child because his father was so angry. And the new question may, in fact, be "Who is FreeSpace's mother?"
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Dark Hunter on November 09, 2007, 10:41:06 am
Just based on the date, I'd say it's more likely that "Madspace" was some variation of SpaceWar...
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: ShadowGorrath on November 09, 2007, 10:42:09 am
And the new question may, in fact, be "Who is FreeSpace's mother?"

SmartSpace TM
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: castor on November 09, 2007, 12:40:16 pm
(http://www.stereo3d.com/sh_mad.jpg)
http://www.stereo3d.com/madspace.htm

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The name Madspace comes about since the laws of physics are often defied in this program
:p
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Snail on November 09, 2007, 12:44:17 pm
Looks like a rip-off of Wolf3d (there are like a hundred).
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Mobius on November 09, 2007, 01:02:44 pm
FreeSpace's father? Colony Wars.
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Snail on November 09, 2007, 01:05:51 pm
Colony Wars' father? Space Invaders.
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Mobius on November 09, 2007, 01:12:04 pm
Not really, Space Invaders is the classic "OMG save Earth from the aliens!" game while Colony Wars started as the rebellion of oppressed humans against Earth itself.

Colony Wars' father is the American Independence :lol:
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: karajorma on November 09, 2007, 01:25:51 pm
And , why do you think that MadSpace is somehow connected to FreeSpace ?

Because it's obviously the precursor of ALL PC games. :p

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Game: Madspace (PC)
Release Date: Dec 31, 1969
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: BengalTiger on November 09, 2007, 01:52:19 pm
Like they actually had PC's in 1969....
The size of a small house..:p


(something with that date is wrong)
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Snail on November 09, 2007, 02:00:18 pm
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Game: Madspace (PC)
Release Date: Dec 31, 1969

:wtf:

Was it a weapon from the Cold War or something?
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: TrashMan on November 09, 2007, 03:28:10 pm
And , why do you think that MadSpace is somehow connected to FreeSpace ?

Because it's obviously the precursor of ALL PC games. :p

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Game: Madspace (PC)
Release Date: Dec 31, 1969

More like FS's GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT father.. :D
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Snail on November 09, 2007, 03:29:30 pm
That'd be "FS's GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRAND father," or else it just means that FS's dad is a really great kinda guy. :D
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Vasudan Commander on November 10, 2007, 03:29:02 am
Heh i played this once.Pretty interesting



Looks like a rip-off of Wolf3d (there are like a hundred).

This wasn't a ripoff of Wolf3d; Wolf3d was a rip-off of THIS !
 :lol:

but in all seriousness  think they probably got the date wrong. There's just no way that pc games being released back then (if they even were) would look like that O_o
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: castor on November 10, 2007, 04:51:34 am
Heh, yeah. Even 15 years later a game with top-notch graphics looked like this (in the original 320x200 resolution).

(http://homepages.tesco.net/~parsonsp/assets/images/WayofFist5.gif)
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Kosh on November 10, 2007, 08:51:44 am
Mmmmmmmm, pixelage
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: TrashMan on November 10, 2007, 09:02:40 am
That'd be "FS's GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRAND father," or else it just means that FS's dad is a really great kinda guy. :D

Pfft...nitpicks.

Either way, old as hell would be the proper terms for it...:P
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Fearless Leader on November 11, 2007, 04:15:06 am
oh dear....

I think FS has enough issues without you all bring up the fact that he never knew his father
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: AlphaOne on November 11, 2007, 02:46:16 pm
well sorry for the spam here but i have a question for Fearless Leader if youre so Fearless then would you care to take charge of a Hecate destroyer and go off to battle it out beam cannons style with a Ravana or a Sathanas??? :P
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Fearless Leader on November 15, 2007, 02:43:55 am
I would do it with a Livathan vs a Sathanas if I had AlphaOne flying escort :p
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: brandx0 on November 15, 2007, 06:26:42 am
oh dear....

I think FS has enough issues without you all bring up the fact that he never knew his father

He's sensitive enough that he was adopted by Descent
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Flipside on November 15, 2007, 07:09:48 pm
That's spooky, I was just thinking about Way of the Exploding Fist last week, and castor posts a screenshot.....

iirc, it was the first ever fighting game, before even barbarian or street fighter etc.
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: castor on November 16, 2007, 11:55:49 am
Yep, released in 1985. Was quite ja jaw dropper back then.. for the first time you could actually hear the bones crushing.
Oh the innocence :D
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Flipside on November 17, 2007, 10:57:09 am
The one thing I loved about that game was the ability to walk up to your opponent and simply kick them in the nuts, and collect your points as they bent over double in agony ;)
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: karajorma on November 20, 2007, 07:41:47 am
Renegade and Target Renegade were far better for that though. With the latter being the pinnacle of beat-em-up games as far as I'm concerned. After T:R the genre went back to one one one fights and an increasing reliance on the ability to remember and perform special moves.

I prefer simply having punch, a couple of kicks and the trade mark move "Grab opponent by the shoulders and repeatedly knee him in the bollocks." 


To be honest I think I should move this topic to the Gaming forum now. :D
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: Flipside on November 20, 2007, 07:45:42 am
:lol: That was the side-scrolling older brother of Double Dragon iirc? Where you could pick up iron bars and things and hit your opponents with them?

And they think Video Game Violence is a new phenomenon....
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: karajorma on November 21, 2007, 02:29:38 am
Yep. That's the one. Level 2 involved beating up hookers and avoiding their gun toting pimp. :D

Somehow I doubt the game would secure anything below a 15 rating these days :D
Title: Re: Freespace's much older brother
Post by: starlord on November 29, 2007, 03:37:25 am
You want to get to know one of freespace's ancestors?

Why don't you try googling "deepspace: operation copernicus" by sir tech software in the 80s?