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ITT: video Games that you never bought bc you were intimidated, too complicated

Me - all of the 90s "Jane's" flight sim games ...
Flesh Insane Space
  07/16/25
Pac-man
cowardly quadroon
  07/16/25
(avg. xo poaster)
Contagious Whorehouse Coldplay Fan
  07/16/25
Somehow I never heard of those
Territorial Theatre
  07/16/25
They all basically had the same box
Flesh Insane Space
  07/17/25
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swashbuckling antidepressant drug circlehead
  07/16/25
Wow even that name sounds intimidating
Exciting orange brunch
  07/16/25
4 isn't that bad if you start with spain or france or someth...
motley flirting library fortuitous meteor
  07/16/25
Also IIrC the Jane's games I mentioned in the OP came with e...
michael doodikoff
  07/17/25


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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:50 PM
Author: Flesh Insane Space

Me - all of the 90s "Jane's" flight sim games

Just seemed like there were a million controls impossible to memorize

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%27s_Combat_Simulations

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751239&forum_id=2)#49107695)



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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: cowardly quadroon

Pac-man

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Date: July 16th, 2025 11:22 PM
Author: Contagious Whorehouse Coldplay Fan

(avg. xo poaster)

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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: Territorial Theatre

Somehow I never heard of those

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Date: July 17th, 2025 12:43 AM
Author: Flesh Insane Space

They all basically had the same box

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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: swashbuckling antidepressant drug circlehead



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Date: July 16th, 2025 11:18 PM
Author: Exciting orange brunch

Wow even that name sounds intimidating

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751239&forum_id=2)#49107736)



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Date: July 16th, 2025 11:18 PM
Author: motley flirting library fortuitous meteor

4 isn't that bad if you start with spain or france or something

EU3 otoh was arcane, bizarre, and hard to parse especially in the UI department

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751239&forum_id=2)#49107738)



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Date: July 17th, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: michael doodikoff

Also IIrC the Jane's games I mentioned in the OP came with enormous manuals Almost as complicated as the IrL vehicle. I've read about people spending hours just figuring out how to take off the runway in an airplane on those Games

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751239&forum_id=2)#49108997)