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Need some help finding the name of an old game.

Was around 1990~ish on Atari ST or Amiga.
Gameplay was first person with grid based movement, like Dungeon Master or Legend of Grimrock, but instead of a party you only had a single dude.
Setting was SciFi, the surroundings (at least at the beginning of the game) were mostly colored in blue.

There is not much else I remember. I know you picked up a gun from a locker or wall-safe early and that the game was pretty hard (or that might just be me being 7 and incompetent back then)

I was really sad that you can't upgrade gas masks, flight helmets, glasses and most other headgear. Also upgraded civilian clothing would be awesome.

Why can't I put something into my glasses or flight helmet that gives me the effect of the recon scope?
Why can't I use ballistic fibers to armor my coat or fedora?

Why must Beth torture me so?

So in one of the bathrooms inside a building, I found a teddy sitting on the toilet, with glasses on its face, and holding a newspaper open in front of it like it was reading. Twas great.

Then I tried to screenshot it and photobombed myself. Protip: don't use alt+printscreen to try taking screenshots in a game which binds 'holding alt' to 'throw grenade' action. Literal photobomb.

When it comes to teddies nothing beats the two I found humping, surrounded by various bottles of booze. I laughed way too hard when I found them.


Also I found a female skeleton sitting on the toilet in an outhouse, with a paddle in her hand and a male skeleton drapped in a butt-upwards position over her lap. Quite hilarious.

Those will always be some kind of comic relif for me. First time I saw one a friend was watching me play over the steam streaming tool and he instantly started to do funny murloc noises. I can't take them seriously, no matter if they always almost eat my face whenever I encounter them.

Yeah, the companions are, not unexpectedly, pretty boring so far.

Agreed. So far I've only seen 2 that are interesting.
Piper because every so often she makes comments that are downright hilarious and leave me laughing for a good while (like her "I was expecting some crap like "the treasure is yoooooouuuuuuu"" when you find the "treasure" of a sidequest).
Curie because I find it strangely endearing when she considers doing weird or dangerous stuff "For Science!"

Settlement building is fun enough, but I really wish those smucks at Sanctuary Hills, and all the other places you can get, would do some damn work of their own instead of just loafing around when I'm not there.

If you have one of the bigger water purifiers (those that need electricity) they will sometimes dump clean water into your workbench.
Scavenger benches will produce random crap and dump it into the workbench when someone is assigned to them.
Shops will every now and then throw some caps into the workbench if someone is assigned to them.

Probably a few other things that also produce things. Kinda sad you're never told that stuff ingame.

I'm busy picking off supermutants in a distance with my sniper rifle when I got the message that one of my villages is under attack and needs support.
Being lazy, even though it is maybe a minute of walking away, I fast-travel over and spawn maybe a meter in front of a raider with a fat man launcher. After we stared at each other for a very confused second she blows us both up, killing us instantly.

And this is why you always relocate the fast travel spawn to inside a building the moment you aquire a new settlement......

Nietzsche wrote, "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friends, we are not he who fights monsters. We are not he who gazes into the abyss.

We're the thing in the abyss that's gazing back!"

The decline of split-screen console games.

Here, have all my YES
That used to be the only reason me and my friends even bought the damn things.

Now most things that have split screen or other multiplayer-on-one-console modes are... Mario Kart... bad Mario Kart clone... Mario Party... bad Mario Party clone... that and fighting games

Where is the Mashed, Micro Machines, Timesplitters or heck, even Return Fire.