[TML] 1st session with Mongoose Traveller.

[Brad Rogers]

On Mon, 12 May 2008 22:18:01 +0100
"Tom Cusworth" <tom.cusworth at googlemail.com> wrote:

Hello Tom,

> An example off the top of my head would be NINTENDOGS - where the aim
> of the game is (apparently) to raise and train a puppy (so

Not played that.  TBH,  don't play much in the way of computer games.
I much prefer RPGs (particularly Trav, of course) , or even board games.

> ObTrav: Remember Felix the "Koala" from Mark Harrison's excellent
> strip "The Travellers"? Imagine a sector-wide rush on games featuring

Eh-gads!  You've just brought bucket loads of memories up.  I'd
forgotten all about that strip.  Always amusing, quite often bl**dy
hilarious.

> a similar mammaloid...  customised software to adapt to the user's
> requirements, the simulated Felix will be all cuddly-wuddly and
> cutesy for female players and a mean, green merc killing machine for
> males...
> Hmmmm, maybe this idea's not going where I thought it might. It did
> sound better in my head before I began typing. But then, so do a lot
> of things. It's so much nicer in my mind

Probably, the least said the better, about that.   :-))

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