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(...) I bought several dozen of the Samurai Swordsman and other Ninja sets because of the removable armor they had. If the European armor came back into production I'd buy...well...I'd buy a whole lot more than that! J (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle)
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Right here! Those armor peices are a valuble part of my feudal min-fig militia. Ive only been collecting odly about 11-12 years (I'm 13 now). My focus on castle in the early ninties made me stop buying space altogether- so i got 2 to 3 of each black (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle)
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(...) the (...) someone (...) Aye, Kevin is DEFINITELY on to something. I have only two armor pieces. I know of at least 20 or 30 people (a VERY small percentage) personally who would gobble up droves of 6009's or the like, myself included. After a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle)
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(...) <snip> If it's worth anything, I would like to see that as well. -Shiri fut .dear-lego (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle)
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I would like to let you know how much I, and many others, would like to see the return of the European-style body armor piece to the Castle series. As someone who not collecting legos while these pieces were being produced, I have found them (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I recall reading some time ago (do not know the source or the authenticity) that The Lego Company cannot or will not accept specific ideas for products or product lines, etc. This is due to liability. If you submit ideas to TLC and they use (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Hey guys -- time to maybe move this discussion? (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) After conferring with a couple of friends who worked at Blizzard, I need to correct what I said. Most of the employees were fans of the game Warhammer, and many also were really into the game Necromunda. The artists who worked on Warcraft were (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) was (...) city (...) and (...) referred (...) Chaos. Yes, I seem to remember that one, too. People don't understand how to pronounce the greek CH sound in this country sometimes. The guy from company X is coming today, someone would say, and (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Ahhhh, my brain kept trying to come up with something starting with an S and I kept drawing blanks on the company name. Going down the wrong path. (...) avoid (...) Alliance, (...) Abe's (...) I stand corrected - for one particular product, it (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Didn't know they were ever called Brainstorm. Silicon & Synapse (after creating great games like The Lost Vikings and Rock & Roll Racing) had decided to change their name, mostly because no-one could pronounce synapse. They decided to change (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Castle Wolfenstein was created by Silas S. Warner in 1981 for Muse Software. Muse later created Beyond Castle Wolfenstein in 1984. (...) Actually, the licensing of engines is very common! Why make it easier for someone to compete with your (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) This is partly true, but I would like to clear up some of your nomenclature. You could say that Id created the First Person Shooter (FPS) genre of games when they created Wolfenstein 3D. This is different from an engine, as an engine is a (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) yah yah! I remember copying it (shhh, i was young) sector by sector, since my poor apple][+'s 48k memory couldn't do more than that... :) yay locksmith *grin* :) Dan PS. Hope my age isn't showing ;) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Wolfenstein was created by....ummmmm....dang....that was so long ago even I forget. I mean the ORIGINAL Castle Wolfenstein (Apple ][). Top down graphics, not first person. But yes, the engine by IDG has been copied many times. These guys (...) (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Always. Still is (my question was rhetorical). Bruce (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Blizzard (originally Silicon and Synapse, then Brainstorm, now Blizzard) was founded by Alan Adham (Allen? I forget). Much of his early contract work was for the company he lived near, Interplay Productions. Interplay has been in Orange County (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) A few years ago the Easter Bunny broke up a DUPLO safari set and hid the pieces in eggs around the house for my older son. It would be great to do it with LEGO this year, what with some of the great poly bags and small sets EB has accumulated (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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The way this works is a creative company invents a gaming engine and several others copy it. Classic example Wolfenstein/Doom invented by Idg. These guys invented the 3D shooter engine that was copied by many others. Once software engine is created, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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