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First pc game was something on my C64 from SSI but can't remember the title. Board game was Avalon Hill's 1776 back in 1977.
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Eastern Front (1941) for the Atari by Chris Crawford. That started the addiction, while most start with board games. I still have the box and cartridge from 1983 in perfect condition, but no Atari to play it on. It doesn't look like WitE, that's for sure!
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Can't remember the name but it was pretty simple.
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Eastern Front (1941) for the Atari by Chris Crawford. That started the addiction, while most start with board games. I still have the box and cartridge from 1983 in perfect condition, but no Atari to play it on. It doesn't look like WitE, that's for sure!
You can buy an Atari + disk drive on eBay. I did.
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I played Knights of the Desert game seriously at first because it was my first wargame on the commodore 64. Then came like Battles for Normandy and Battle of the Bulge. Those were amazing dos games for their time. Lots of fun and challenging.
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War in the Gulf from Empire Interactive,
the 3rd in the series begun by Team Yankee. I played it through to the end, but like everyone else who has ever gotten to the end, the final mission is simply unbeatable.
I am sure i still it in my boxes of games somewhere, along with Team Yankee, which i played too after reading Coyle's book. Still have never played Pacific Islands though, perhaps that is one i should at to my retro to play list.

War in the Gulf, begun a serious 90s Tank Sim binge - Armorerd Fist 2, iM1a2 (another one i played comprehensively ), M1 Tank Platoon 2, Spearhead, Steel Panthers 3.
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PC - Allied General. I was very impressed with it for as long as it took me to realize that the AI was clueless ( I was naively expecting chess type standards of AI). Pretty good game though.

Board - ASL. What was I thinking [:D] Talk about diving in at the deep end.
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Long time ago - Some kind of Eastern Front Corp level game on my Atari 130 (Don't remember the name)
After that a bunch of Atomic Games series ( Normandy, Market Garden and eventually Stalingrad) on my 386 SX.

That would likely be the "Eastern Front 1941" game, mentioned a good few times in this thread [&o]

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My first "proper" wargame I played on computer was NATO Commander for CBM64 [:'(]

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Eastern Front (1941) for the Atari by Chris Crawford. That started the addiction, while most start with board games. I still have the box and cartridge from 1983 in perfect condition, but no Atari to play it on. It doesn't look like WitE, that's for sure!
You can buy an Atari + disk drive on eBay. I did.
Or you can download an emulator and a disk image for free. I did. (*grin*)
Emulators don't have the feel of the real thing. [:D]
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You can buy an Atari + disk drive on eBay. I did.
Or you can download an emulator and a disk image for free. I did. (*grin*)
Emulators don't have the feel of the real thing. [:D]

In that regard computer games don't have the real feel of the real thing either. I miss rolling the die and moving the minature pieces.
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The first has to be Toei's Gengis Khan and then Lords of the Realm (I). I played both to death.

But "seriously" (the other two were rather primitive, a bit arcadish), I guess Uncommon Valor.
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I don't remember what my "first 'proper' wargame" was. Since it was probably by SSG, SSI, or MicroProse and was released in the mid to late 1980s, I would venture a guess that it was the Decisive Battles of the American Civil War series.
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MicroProse, what a pioneer they were. The one wargame that probably saw me clocking the most hours in 1980s was their Silent Service, with Gunship probably there in the top, too.
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That's easy. Action Stations. Raw Entertainment and Alan Zimm. I still have the big floppys. The really floppy ones.
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That's easy. Action Stations. Raw Entertainment and Alan Zimm. I still have the big floppys. The really floppy ones.
Really big floppies are the 8" size that were obsoleted by hard drives in the early '80s. Next to them the 5.25" seem small. [:D]
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The Atomic Games V For Victory on Arnhem.
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You can buy an Atari + disk drive on eBay. I did.
Or you can download an emulator and a disk image for free. I did. (*grin*)
Emulators don't have the feel of the real thing. [:D]

i understand that feeling , but dosbox is pretty awesome, though i do like to get big box 3.5inch originals which i then manually install through dosbox - if there was at all in existence an external 5.25drive with a usb connection that would be great too but i don tthink that exists at all
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