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What's with SSG? - 5/25/2014 11:35:48 PM

tkershner

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Does anyone know what the current status of SSG is? Their website shows no activity after 2010. I just got one of their games and fell in love with it. I fervently hope they are still going strong.

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RE: What's with SSG? - 5/26/2014 1:03:31 AM

Ostwindflak

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I remember reading in another thread a few months ago about a guy who asked the same question. I remember a person answering that it was a two or three man team and one of the gentlemen had passed away so SSG more or less dissolved. It was somewhere on the Matrix Forums.

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RE: What's with SSG? - 5/26/2014 1:32:10 PM

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Thanks for the info.

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RE: What's with SSG? - 5/26/2014 8:30:02 PM

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Ian Trout died and Roger Keating thereafter moved into teaching computer science. I think I recall that Roger was quoted as saying that the SSG game code would not be put into the public domain for fan-based enhancement. There's probably still a minor cash flow coming from the games.

They were a great partnership.

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ORIGINAL: Ostwindflak

I remember reading in another thread a few months ago about a guy who asked the same question. I remember a person answering that it was a two or three man team and one of the gentlemen had passed away so SSG more or less dissolved. It was somewhere on the Matrix Forums.

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RE: What's with SSG? - 5/27/2014 1:50:29 PM

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Thank you for clearing that up Greyshaft.

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RE: What's with SSG? - 5/28/2014 12:46:41 AM

Skeleton

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Maybe not dead...see the link below as Roger indicates maybe a revival?

http://www.ssg.com.au/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6402

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RE: What's with SSG? - 5/28/2014 1:55:43 AM

budd

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hope so......thanks for the info.

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RE: What's with SSG? - 5/28/2014 2:13:13 AM

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ORIGINAL: Marcus the leper

Maybe not dead...see the link below as Roger indicates maybe a revival?

http://www.ssg.com.au/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6402

Thanks for the link. I usually check in over there to see if anything was happening but hadn't been over there for a while. That would be good news indeed.

My second computer War Game ever was an SSG game for C-64, Battlefront, I was hooked on SSG games ever since then.

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RE: What's with SSG? - 5/29/2014 8:12:51 PM

carnifex

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Aye, SSG's Russia was probably the ultimate computer wargame for me for a long long time.

I enjoyed every single one of their products, worth every dollar I spent.

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RE: What's with SSG? - 5/30/2014 5:32:22 PM

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