Where is the modding section?

[vonduus]

I thought it was C&C. That game died for me when I realized that I could win anytime by building towers all the way from my home base to the enemy base. Or perhaps this should be called tower offense . Same tactic did wonders in AoE, btw.

You know you are not allowed to call a game "Tower Defence" any more - I read somewhere that some big corporation somehow got the sole rights to use those two words .

[RCIX]

You know you are not allowed to call a game "Tower Defence" any more - I read somewhere that some big corporation somehow got the sole rights to use those two words .

It was the same with "podcast" and everyone uses that still (mostly) . And which company are you talking about?

[vonduus]

I don't remember. So I googled "Tower Defence", and found some information on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_defense

The company is COM2US. Probably they only bought the trademark for use on mobile phones?

Btw, wikipedia claims that the first td game was Rampart. Never heard of it.

[x4000]

Rampart was a real classic, I don't consider it tower defense though.  I played that for aaages on the NES with friends.  There is a building phase, and attack phase, it's not very similar to modern tower defense.

[keith.lamothe]

Yea, rampart was great, but it was more a tank/scorched-earth type game, though it probably predates those.