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Re:Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game by morbicer on Thursday December 28, 2023 @04:00PM (#38798547)
One of the best PC hot seats classics. Endangered my high school graduation :) I wanted to recover some of the custom maps we created and played but sadly they are in the silicon heaven already.

It's fun how everyone's youth is the best time ever, but I bet i find many fellow connoisseurs here: Liero, windows 2000, electronic music of the early noughts, the internet before Facebook, Matrix, Futurama, Lebowski.

A Gen X can show up saying Nirvana and BBS was the real deal before it all got whack or someone younger can make a point with more recent cultural phenomena.

I am defined by the era of Liero.

Re:Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game by therein on Thursday December 28, 2023 @04:14PM (#38798700)
I used to play Liero with my cousin for hours. It just barely would not fit a 1.44MB floppy. We downloaded it so many times over 14.4k dialup, go out to grab dinner with the family, come back to a dropped connection.
Re:Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game by morbicer on Thursday December 28, 2023 @04:17PM (#38798727)
I imagine that's the stories I will tell my grandkids but it probably won't be that interesting. Hopefully we can see it well... maybe the rave stories will fare better. I store my old DnD stuff for the odd chance it will have vintage value to the generations far away.
Re:Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game by fryktelig on Friday December 29, 2023 @03:13AM (#38802736)
Same. Another amazing one I played in those days was zatacka / achtung die kurwe. So funny how we were able to pack 5 people on one laptop keyboard back in those days.
Re:Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game by averageRoyalty on Saturday December 30, 2023 @06:54PM (#38820457)
> but sadly they are in the silicon heaven already

Silicon heaven - where all the calculators go!