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I’m surprised the Liger unicorn didn’t go for more than that. Someone’s lucky I work until 11:30.
(I can get away with checking eBay thus far, but I wouldn’t dare place a bid from work!)
I haven’t tried Sims 3. The Sims (1) was a lot of fun, but had some first-of-the-type style flaws. Sims 2 was both more complex and a decided improvement in many ways (although I enjoyed the original greatly). Sims 3 adds some further complexity, but I felt the balance of 2 was very good and didn’t really want more complex – besides which, I hadn’t enough time to finish all my goals in #2. The people who made the switch seem to really love the 3rd version, though.
SImEarth was nearer what Spore ended up being; you controlled the planet more than the creatures for most of the game. SimLife was a great ‘playing god’ game, you couldn’t directly control the animals but you could tweak genes at any instant, clone, smite, pick up and move or simply add more. I had almost the whole lot of them: SimCity (original, 2000,3000, 4), SimAnt, SimEarth, SimIsle, SimTower, SimLife . . . um, SimFarm; only SimCity and the Sims survived for the long haul. The two I didn’t have were SimCopter and SimGolf. There were also some children’s games, like SimPark.
Zoo Tycoon was wonderful; I’ve recently reverted to the original version because I prefer it to the second version – not that the second doesn’t have some good additions, but the first.
I have heard very much about Oregon Trail but never actually played it.
SimAnt was great until I figured out how to win it. Every time. After that, I was never creative enough with the experimental mode to keep me interested.
SimLife, now, THAT one I actually just bought a new copy of, since mine was on 3.5 floppy and I no longer have a computer with a floppy drive. Design a world (percentages of water, mountains, temperature range, seasons, etc), line up the physics, call up either a pre-designed zoo of animals and plants or design some or all from scratch, and then try to set up a balanced ecosystem. Or an unbalanced ecosystem, using food carts to feed and walls to keep out predators. As it’s a SIm game you can then unleash disaster on your planet – disease, comet, or, best of all, Civilization( a bulldozer runs all over the screen, flattening your plants and animals at random and leaving houses behind). I dearly wish they’d update it. I had high hopes for Spore but it turned out to have too little similarity when it was finally released.
My favorite game on the old computer was one where I had established the plants, and herbivores (primarily ‘gerbils’ and ‘zebras’) and was trying to add ‘Tigers’ to the mix. I released 25 tigers, ran the simulation forward a year, and had one left. Called up the cause of death chart and found out that 2 had died of thirst, 1 had starved to death and the other 21 had been eaten! Turned out that some of my gerbils had mutated to eat meat, as well as fruit and seeds. :scratch: This when I discovered that although I could find out how many gerbils this was (12 out of 394), there was no way to locate a critter with a particular attribute – I had to pause the game and go through the map gerbil by gerbil until I found all the errant beasties and doctored their genes back to fruits and seeds. I eventually did get the tigers established in the north, and ‘cheetahs’ hunting the zebra in the south.
Good luck. Nine of them made it through the night which is better than most of the recent batches. I got one from the last batch.
I’ll second that. PYOs have been one per person since I joined the forum (except the muses) and I’ve yet to actually see one available to purchase, let alone purchase any – again, except the muses. In spite of a number of threads I’ve seen of keepers, griffins, unicorns, being available… dwindling…. gone. So a larger starting batch would be helpful so that they don’t all vanish in an hour or so and the buyers don’t have to hope they hit at the right instant or miss the lot.
I’d like a phoenix. And a griffin. And a unicorn, kirin, and dragon.
That Ki-rin is adorable. I haven’t any of those, but I doubt I’d be able to snag that particular one.
(‘sides, I’m still waiting for Russet’s sister to come up, if she ever does.)
I think I got a pair, but PayPal decided to pounce on me with ‘YOUR CREDIT CARD IS OUT OF DATE!!! Enter new date and verification #’ * I enter date and # * ‘ENTER DATE AND #!’ * I, again, enter date and # * ‘ENTER DATE AND #!’ *Snarl at computer that I’m not USING the dratted credit card, I’m trying to pay through bank, cancel order and try again. Whole thing repeats. Give up and check email this morning to find that the orders both went through even if the money didn’t and Susie has kindly sent me a PayPal invoice (and canceled the surplus order, which I didn’t know I’d sent). Today PayPal admits no knowledge of any credit card whatsoever and permits me to send my money to Windstone. At least, they pretended to do so.
So I thought I had them, and then I thought I’d missed them, and now I don’t know anymore, but I think . . . maybe. 😕
I never tried any of the Petz games. I think the reason I gave up on Creatures 2 was because the Sims came out. I still have the whole run of the Sims (1) and expansion packs in my cabinet, and all the Sims 2 running on my computer. I am ignoring Sims 3 because I like the level of complexity in 2 and there are still a whole list of things I haven’t actually DONE yet in that version. (Don’t have as much time as when I was unemployed and/or in college, somehow.)
Actually, it’s a good thing I brought it up – I just discovered that I’ve lost my recipe. It was from the Pillsbury Bake-Off some years ago. Good old internet:
1/2 c. fresh or frozen broccoli
1/4 c. chopped parsley or 2 tbsp. finely chopped onion
1 tbsp. soft butter
2 tbsp. prepared mustard
Grated Parmesan cheese
1 tsp. lemon juice
3/4 c. shredded Swiss cheese (3 oz.)
1 can Hormel chuck ham, drained and separated into chunks
1 (8 oz.) can Pillsbury refrigerator crescent rollsHeat oven to 350 degrees. Cook and drain broccoli in large mixing bowl, combine parsley, onion, mustard, butter, and lemon juice; blend well. Add cheese and broccoli and ham; mix lightly. Set aside. Separate crescent dough into 8 triangles. On greased cookie sheet, arrange triangles; paint toward the outside, in a circle with bases over-lapping. The center about 3 inches in diameter. Spoon ham filling in a ring evenly over bases of triangle. Fold points of triangle over filling and tuck under bases of triangle center of circle. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Serve hot. 6 servings. TIP: To make ahead, cover and refrigerate up to 3 hours; bake 30-35 minutes.
There also seem to be a number of versions that include egg(s), but I’ve always done this recipe with variations to the actual type of cheese or veggies. It’s handy because you can use fresh stuff if available, or canned/frozen if you’re in a hurry.
I had the second one, but there was something about I I never could ‘get’. I’d do everything the way is was recommended, but the creatures would just die, or refuse to eat, or something. It was bad enough that I decided the installation must have glitched, and reinstalled it, but the second one was the same way. (If I recall correctly you could teach them names of items, and I’d train and train to say ‘ball’ for the ball, for instance, then suddenly the only word the thing knew would be ‘treh’ or something – a partial word ‘tree’ that had no relation to the one we’d been working on.) I kept thinking it would be a really neat game if it just worked!
I haven’t any PYOs except a muse as yet, and I’ve utterly missed all the unicorns as well. The problem with the notification list is that I frequently check the store while waiting for my email to load – so I’d merely be getting additional confirmation that I missed out on whatever it was that I’d been waiting for. I already get that by looking here and reading the countdown threads (6 left! 4 left! Got one! All gone!)
Can’t complain too loudly, I suppose, as I DID manage to snag a Opopo curly and a lynx flapcat, but the latter was purely because I ordered it from work – which I should not be doing. But I’d REALLY like another family of unicorns, and the grullas are awfully pretty.
