Millsy

I first acquired a copy of tftd when I was about 12 (I bought a copy later, guys!) At that age most things of a fishy nature unnerved me, dark night-time missions, artifact sites, etc. But Calcinites really put it up me, until I found out they were rubbish... That said though, I never managed to complete the game before I was playing legally, because for all that time I was too terrified to go to colony sites! One look at the scary tentaculats in the towers outside was enough to send me back to base, drenched with sweat and shivering in terror. Of course now I tend to go with sonic cannon and disruptor pulse launchers, much less intimidating when all that spongy brain matter is splashed across the wall...

Hi all, gotta say the usual stuff on my first post, played the first three 'proper' games in my youth, and keep going back to them from time to time - if the current pooter'll allow it. Also I love the site, you've got pretty much everything covered, isn't NKF a good, all-knowing and worship-worthy fellow? Yes. I've read about a bit, and nobody seems to mention spending hours finishing the more flammable levels by incendiary action alone, surely I can't be the only one to enjoy watching apartments and slums go up in smoke? Tis a shame if Yellow Hat Lady and her family get caught under a collapsing ceiling, but there's always going to be the odd casualty when the city / world's being saved On a similar note, did anyone ever collapse the big headquarters building (Extropians, maybe Technocrats - beginner level)? I seem to remember it having 5 or 6 thick concrete lined pillars around a large stairway that all crumbled after some persuasion, then being treated to seeing a decent sized squad of arthropods + other nasty things falling to an easy (if politically expensive) mess. Certainly looked good on a P500 back in the day Ah what fun! Also there were the slums...