/vr/ - Retro Games

I had kind of a creepy experience with a game that when I was a kid that really stuck with me. This must have been very early 90s at least, so the dawn of 3D games on PC. The game was called Lightspeed, by Microprose. It was a little complicated for me at the time, and I was more interested in trying to blow things up. The game had some animated scenes where you spoke to aliens in addition to the 3D graphics. The aliens themselves were sort of disturbing, like one goat race that asked you "Are you a male of your species?" before seemingly jerking off while you talk to him. Another race was a bunch of slave traders who you could sell your own space station to in exchange for a really nice ship. Couldn't find a good example of the art of the game.

Anyway, I got my butt typically kicked most of the time. One day, I discovered I could glitch the escape pod to give myself infinite missiles. So I proceeded to go around killing EVERYONE. I don't remember how far I got. I ended up running into the Jot, which were one of the stronger races, but I hadn't had a lot of experience dealing with them.

So while attacking, I accidentally sent out a probe to communicate. The comm screen popped up displaying the Jot, which from memory were these light blue balloon-headed ugly guys. The one I was talking to reached up, tore it's head in half to reveal another head inside, which said "DIE!". I turned that computer off and never played that game again.