Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
Are you part of the military, or a veteran? Well good news, you can grab some free games using a service called Games to Grunts.
Offering up games free of charge to people currently in the military or veterans, Games to Grunts can get you started on a PC library, or help you snag a few titles you may not have gotten otherwise. All of the games are donated in batches by developers, so there's only a limited amount of each available. The current batch's biggest games, such as SoulCalibur VI, Tekken 7, and Gears of War 4 are already sold out, but there's still some games left.
I've personally got way more games than I'll ever play to completion but that ain't the case for all my brothers and sisters in arms.
Source: https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/games-to-grunts-offering-free-games-to-military-and-veterans
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 15 2019, @10:58AM (5 children)
You should be practicing your sharpshooting and hand to hand combat instead.
(Score: 3, Touché) by VLM on Friday November 15 2019, @12:19PM (4 children)
LOL cardboard boardgame axis and allies was insanely popular in the unit I was in, organized tournaments during downtime....
Also this probably dates me pretty bad as this being a really long time ago, but "all of us" played wing commander as kids. And everyone played this new game "Doom" on their PCs.
So if they need a WWII general, spaceship pilot, or FPS space marine, we could meet that military need.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 15 2019, @01:18PM
Spaceships and space marines will all be automated by bots. But we will have waves and waves of Generals to use as laser cannon fodder.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday November 15 2019, @05:28PM (2 children)
You ain't that old then. I was 31 in 1990 when Wing Commander appeared. I didn't own a PC at that time and played it for the first time on the Sega CD in 1994. That version added voice acting and was the first to synchronize lip movement and voice. It was considered to be the best version of the original, although I didn't know that at the time.
The first computer I ever saw was the Apple I my school got in late 1976, basically no one was allowed to touch it. By graduation that school year (1977) they had managed to make it into a cash register at the DECA store.
What I played as an actual kid was board games and 'drumroll please!' PONG!
I was 13 when Pong arrived on the scene in 1972. OMG was that amazing!
Although my favorite was Defender (1981) and Stargate (late 1981) and we had to drain our last dozen ships or so to get a high score and not roll it over. My best friend and I would frequently take over at the roll over point and play it till it rolled over again. We could basically play forever on a quarter, (god knows how many quarters to get to that point however!) and would only quit when we had to head home or wanted to go fishing down at the slew.
Talk about dating oneself.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday November 16 2019, @01:43PM (1 child)
Hmm about a decade until I'm "old" as you put it, donno if I'm happy or sad about that, LOL. Getting old does beat the alternative. Pour one out in memory of the departed MDC.
Don't know how good you had it; for many people Wing Commander (and the related prequel sequel, forget the name) was a painful introduction to hyperoptimization of autoexec.bat and config.sys text config files to squeeze out the last couple bytes you needed to run WC. It was a legendarily fat game and depending on your PCs driver collection it might not fit!
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday November 16 2019, @03:28PM
IIRC didn't WC come on something like six 1.44mb disks? I recall finding it when we built our first computers years after the Sega CD died. I was ecstatic, at least until I tried to run it. It erred out immediately and I had too little knowledge at the time as to why. It was only later that I learned that the Sega version was better in nearly every respect. I think I would of been very disappointed if it did run and had no voice acting and crappy sound effects. Sega did a bang up job on the port, it was my favorite game for the entire life of the console.
That game inspired me to buy my first flight stick. Although I paid nowhere near this price for it. I can't believe they go for $70 now!
https://www.amazon.com/Sega-Genesis-GENISTICK-Flight-Controller/dp/B0088PNFM4 [amazon.com]
(Raises glass in return toast to Michael)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 15 2019, @02:23PM
Good on them.
(Score: 2) by jelizondo on Saturday November 16 2019, @02:43AM
They already have institutional, international and inter-unit War Games, why would they need more?