I'll never forget that red alien blob craft (IIRC, it was in the original EV), it slow slow to turn but very powerful, allowing configurations with ridiculous amounts of weapons.Īnd then the stunningly gorgeous Kestrel (. oh god, the mods rocked! Full Star Wars clone. I was obsessed with EV growing up, and then found EV:Nova during college. That game opened us up to a whole universe of what video games could be. Having 6 Rebel Destroyers as escorts, the F key turning into 'press for missile rain.' Feuding couriers that eventually start killing each other. Modifying an Argosy into a terrifying gunboat of proton turrets. The forbidden planets were so mysterious. Or how a bumper crop lowered the price of food on Levo. Or how it takes exactly one torpedo to kill a Defender. Like capturing Lightnings and selling them for a profit. I still remember so much about that game.
Then later came discovering ResEdit (and creating my patented 'Javelin Spray') 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN BOARD? YOU CAN BOARD SHIPS?' I must have pressed a wrong key because we got a beep and a note, 'you are too far away to board this ship.' We looked at each other like we just discovered the map to the holy Grail. We daisy chained two apple keyboards so that he could fly and I could control escorts. My brother and I played it all summer one year. I have a really fond memory of Escape Velocity.
