Age of Empires
This is surely the best pc game ever. One of the best things about it is that it involves skill, stategy and planning, unlike Quake, where you are basically just blasting everything in sight. Also no two games are the same and it really comes into its own with multiplayer games. Age of Empires is also educational, even though some things are a bit dubious. But you know, history is written by historians, and if you can figure out what that means then you're smarter than I am.
If you're playing Age of Empires you may develop a keen desire to cheat - maybe to spice things up a bit, or possibly to pander to your Machiavellian and fiendish nature. Alternatively you could simply be crap at it. Either way, try typing these in the chat box.
| Diediedie | everyone dies |
| Resign | you resign |
| Reveal map | self-explanatory |
| Pepperoni pizza | 1000 food |
| Woodstock | 1000 wood |
| Quarry | 1000 stone |
| Coinage | 1000 gold |
| No fog | remove the Fog of War |
| Hari Kari | self-explanatory |
| Medusa | when villagers are killed they become horse archers. When these are killed, they become catapults |
| Photon Man | you get a man with a sodding great laser |
| Gaia | you control all the animals, although the point of this is debatable: phalanx versus gazelle, you'll agree the smart money's on the armoured chappie |
| Flying Dutchman | juggernaughts become flying dutchmen, which look just the same but can, well fly. makes perfect sense really |
| Steroids | banish the waiting time for upgrades and making new units |
| Home Run | you win |
| killx | where x is the player's position |
| BigDaddy | you get a car with a mighty cannon on its roof: a match for almost anything except six priests |
| Big Bertha | this gives heavy catapults greater range and damage |
| ICBM | this gives ballistas 1000 range points |
| Hoyohoyo | this is one of the funny ones, that is if you consider a priest running around like a whippet with a bumful of dynamite to be funny. this also gives priests 600 hit points |
| E=mc2 Trooper | you get a man with a rocket launcher |
| Jack be nimble | this makes catapults fire cows and villagers at the hapless enemy. And why not? It's far more effective, and there seems to be no shortage of mugs signing up for it. |
| Dark Rain | this makes archers turn into stealth archers when they are stationary. Oh, by the way, stealth archer is just a posh name for a bush. |
| Gaming Links | Written in 1999 |