Sid's Covert Action on GOG!!!!

Jarhead0331 · January 16, 2014, 10:46:41 AM

http://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_covert_action

Just when I was beginning to lose faith in GOG for bringing us more long sought after classics.

BanzaiCat · January 16, 2014, 10:48:57 AM

Nice find, Jarhead.

I might pick this up, just because I'm tired of running files in DOSBox.

Edit: Grabbed it. Forgot that it utilizes DOSBox anyway, but at least I don't have to mount drives and all that crap.

bbmike · January 16, 2014, 11:19:50 AM

Nice find indeed!
Umm, yeah, Jarhead, I almost forgot ahhhh, I also like your new avatar. Aahh, now, are you going to go ahead and have those TPS reports for us this afternoon?

Jarhead0331 · January 16, 2014, 11:31:14 AM

Quote from: bbmike on January 16, 2014, 11:19:50 AM
Nice find indeed!
Umm, yeah, Jarhead, I almost forgot ahhhh, I also like your new avatar. Aahh, now, are you going to go ahead and have those TPS reports for us this afternoon?

mmmmm....yeah...I'll go ahead and give those TPS reports to you when you come in on Saturday...oh, and since we're a little short-staffed...I'll go ahead and give them to you again on Sunday...mmmm,k? Thaaanks.

BanzaiCat · January 16, 2014, 11:32:33 AM

naga...aaa...na...not gonna work here anymore! LOL

Sir Slash · January 16, 2014, 12:12:43 PM

I saw that this morning. Is it any good? I'm gonna say yes according to the response here.

Gusington · January 16, 2014, 12:18:11 PM

I've never even heard of this game...when was it first released?

bayonetbrant · January 16, 2014, 12:23:42 PM

hmmmm... tempting. so tempting.

BanzaiCat · January 16, 2014, 12:57:59 PM

Sir Slash and Gus:
What-what-WHAT? How do you not recall this game?!? Well, it came out in 1989/1990 or so and was one of the great titles that MicroProse was churning out at the time. It's a game about being a spy for the CIA. You select a level of difficulty, and that level determines how many clues you start with. There's always a scheme that the bad guys are trying to hatch and you figure out how to break it. You do this by surveillance, wiretapping, or good old fashioned breaking-and-entering. There's combat and driving as well, although not a lot of driving. There's also crypto puzzles to solve...all kinds of spy goodness.

I started an AAR on it a few months ago but couldn't quite wrap my head around a good way to present it without being clinical. Now that I bought this version I'll probably try it again.

Tpek · January 16, 2014, 01:14:18 PM

Quote from: Banzai_Cat on January 16, 2014, 12:57:59 PM
Sir Slash and Gus:
What-what-WHAT? How do you not recall this game?!? Well, it came out in 1989/1990 or so and was one of the great titles that MicroProse was churning out at the time. It's a game about being a spy for the CIA. You select a level of difficulty, and that level determines how many clues you start with. There's always a scheme that the bad guys are trying to hatch and you figure out how to break it. You do this by surveillance, wiretapping, or good old fashioned breaking-and-entering. There's combat and driving as well, although not a lot of driving. There's also crypto puzzles to solve...all kinds of spy goodness.

I started an AAR on it a few months ago but couldn't quite wrap my head around a good way to present it without being clinical. Now that I bought this version I'll probably try it again.

Kinda reminds me of Floor 13 (if I got the right name to the right game :P )

BanzaiCat · January 16, 2014, 01:28:31 PM

I think you do. Floor 13 I never played but I'd heard of it. It sounds sort of like Shadow President where you're trying to keep people happy or you end up dead. Shadow President was a lot of fun to mess with and do insane things with, like nuke Jamaica with 5,000 warheads "just to see what happens." (Note: you get assassinated and the government gets overthrown.)

eyebiter · January 16, 2014, 01:42:56 PM

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Sir Slash · January 16, 2014, 02:36:30 PM

Ohhh. I see. Well it's not covert anymore is it? We all know it's a winner.

JasonPratt · January 16, 2014, 02:45:45 PM

"Why don't we spend 10 minutes duking it out when we have a battle?"

Because then we would be Master of Magic instead of Civ and surely that would suck, right? {/sarcasm}

Rayfer · January 16, 2014, 04:28:33 PM

Don't know this game, never played it so I'm not being critical of it. But I've been sorely disappointed way too often by these old, classic dos games that others rave about, i.e. Wasteland 1, Darklands, Ultima 1-6. Hey, to each his own, but they just aren't my proverbial cup of tea.