@hactar42 I always wanted to play Spore, but I never have.

It was actually a pretty fun game, and if I recall correctly, eventually free. You might actually be able to find it online somewhere.

Although I’m not entirely sure if you wanna call it a game, per se… It was more like an evolution engine wherewith you got to experiment with different traits combinations, and eventually end up with an evolved creature of sorts. Interesting and amusing.

It seemed like something one might find in a fifth grade biology class as a teaching tool. But fun!

I see no game

The 3 classic harry potter games in one CD? Daaaaamn, what a steal.

Have a look at Thrive, it's still in development but the first couple of stages are playable.

It was supposed to be an evolution engine. That’s how they developed it and how the tech demos and marketing pushed it.

But then it ended up being simplified and gamified so much that it basically didn’t matter what you did, so the only fun part was making your creatures look like penises.

One mystical day will get a Black & White remake

LMAO— ok, true…

But I actually bought the game (yes, once upon a time people used money and exchanged it for software) and the original version was just the evolution engine. There was actually some controversy at the time that the game didn’t actually contain any “game“. Eventually, further updates turned it into the “penis creation engine“ you described.

But who doesn’t love a lovely, well designed penis?

It really was a shame that they never turned it into a “best designed penis competition” game. I believe I would’ve been very good at that.

I really like that the project is FLOSS and made in godot: https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive

Make a copy of those Black and White discs. You can't get that game anywhere anymore.

I did recently, got nightmares from it.

I adored the Sims Medieval. And Spore. But medieval was fun with the adventures and making a little medieval town and such.

It's actually 3 CDs. I never actually played the Harry Potter games. I didn't read the books until 2015. They are my wife's from before we met.

Man, I always loved the Harry Potter games on PC. Exploring the castle with early 2000s graphics and sound was such a vibe. Of course, this was before Rowling's whole... everything.

Hopefully I find my USB CD drive and I can get it up on the Internet Archive

I meant purchase, but always good to have backups on the archive! It may already be there.

I mean, the racism and bigotry was always in the books, her money has just more open about her hate for specific groups.

FS2004 was great. More simulators need to take notes on the training materials they use in it, I can probably fly a real plane at this point.

Your office? What do you do or what did the person that had your office before do?

Still have my copy of a collectors edition of Spore. Gotta be one of my favorite game cases by far.

4x sims. Thank the gods you were not caught in Russia.

(If you don't know what I'm taking about google for "russia sims nazi")

I had no idea The Sims Medieval was a thing lol

HA, I just thought the same thing!

Dude FS2004 unlocks so many memories for me

One of these is not like the others.

It’s fucking blatant, too. White British people in the nineties/early two thousands might well have had a blind spot (not an excuse) and not realized that “Cho Chang” was as fucked up a name as it was, but I simply cannot believe that nobody noticed the only explicitly Irish character was constantly sneaking whisky and making explosions.

The game was hobbled in development. I remember reading the early development stories and stuff as it was being made and they wanted to make a serious evolution sim. EA basically forced them to make it a light hearted kiddie game and so it pretty much died on release.

That was me. I just have too much crammed in my cabinets that I never open because they are a massive mess. I have the week off work, so I thought I'd make my office a place I'd enjoy to be in. These games were mixed in with some DVDs, a couple of VHS tapes, and CDs of wedding photos.

Most of these are my wife's. Flight Simulator and Black and White are mine, the rest are hers.

I remember seeing this commercial in the UK in the mid 00s.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=laG8yTNjzFU

Black and white is on my "please god make a VR port" list.

I’m jealous, I’ve never had a job that gave me the luxury of making my office a place I enjoy being.

Wow that'd be awesome. Played sitting at a table. Oof good times.

You can buy at gog : https://www.gog.com/en/game/spore_collection

Yeah I loved the Legend of Zelda feel to the old games. The platforming was wonky as a result of not having a jump button but everything else hit so well.

https://archive.org/details/black-white-win

What is column 1 disk 2?

Probably Black and White, seeing as it's Lionhead and there's the expansion pack below it with similar art.

In hindsight yes, but at the time I was probably around 8, so it didn't register back then.

It’s barely SIM game. In spirit maybe, but you’re not building homes you get a premade house and then do SIM adventure type stuff.

I actually rather enjoyed the game as a casual relaxing kind of game.

I don’t recommend it at top price, but if you can get it for less than $10 or $20 it’ll be worth the money.

I mean it was extremely popular, got a sequel, and remains one of the top pirated games to this day

Omg, beating the crap out of your creature would be so awful lol.

There is an opensource project called "openblack" to run Black & White. 😊

I had Flight Simulator! Crashed so many planes. Happy days.

There is no spore sequel?

And a full decompilation currently at around 6% byte for byte.

Same here but after prototyping, the issue is that the game would require you to face down which is a very good position in XR.

Most of the PC cds are already archived. However the mac version, except for the platinum version, is very hard to find.
https://www.myabandonware.com/search/q/black & white

Hell yeah.

Spore has been reborn as a FOSS remake, Thrive

Darkspore is the sequel