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Re:The Polygons of Another World: IBM PC by na85 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @04:29PM (#21964251)
"Out of this World" was my second ever PC game as a child, after I believe Blockout[0] or perhaps Mixed Up Mother Goose[1], all of them on DOS via some weird blue menu driven entirely by the F-keys. I remember when we had to drop out of the menu to get to the command prompt because the menu couldn't load a program from another drive. We used to stay up late with my dad taking turns. We never realized at the time we were playing such a classic.

Such nostalgia. The UX was horrid but we didn't know any better back then.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockout

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-Up_Mother_Goose

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Re:The Polygons of Another World: IBM PC by recursive on Sunday January 05, 2020 @10:48PM (#21966285)
I believe that blue menu is doshell
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Re:The Polygons of Another World: IBM PC by na85 on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:52AM (#21968157)
Maybe. None of the screenshots I could find via Google seemed to match my recollection. It was accessed by typing "menu" at the command prompt and was basically blue-on-blue with no mouse support.
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