First PC wargame you played seriously
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My first computer wargame was also Knights of the Desert (for the C64). Followed by Battlefront by Roger Keating and Ian Trout. This was the original Battlefront game.
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My first commercial game was F15 Strike Eagle on my IBM 386 probably in 1986.
First board game I think was Gettysburg at around age 9 or 10 (1970). My brother Mark used to beat me pretty severely.
First board game I think was Gettysburg at around age 9 or 10 (1970). My brother Mark used to beat me pretty severely.
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Oh man that is some sweet memories.
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ahhh d-day by AH; the game I loved to play because it let you choose where to invade not that static nomandy beach all the time.
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That's easy. Action Stations. Raw Entertainment and Alan Zimm. I still have the big floppys. The really floppy ones.
And all this time I thought I was the only one who had purchased Raw Entertainment's Action Stations. [;)]
No, you and jimi3 aren't the only ones that purchased Action Stations. I spent many an hour playing.
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Guadalcanal Campaign (supposedly "the first monster computer wargame").
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My first PC war game was Mech Brigade on the Commodore 64. Later I moved to the V for Victory series which at the time were the best PC war games at the time.
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My first PC war game was Mech Brigade on the Commodore 64. Later I moved to the V for Victory series which at the time were the best PC war games at the time.
What? You didn't get Steel Tigers or Typhoon of Steel on the c64? Those were the brothers and sisters of Steel Panthers W@W and WWII today.
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I had some for the c64, but just can't remember what they were or was first. There was a text-based civil war game, but it was pretty simple. Think it was freeware or whatever they called it back then. I do remember Wargame Construction Set, but it wasn't that great. [:)] For the PC, its Steel Panthers.
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B1 Nuclear Bomber and Midway Campaign, Avalon Hill, about 1980.
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Same. This game & AH's Guadalcanal game were my favorites for quite some time. My first computer wargame was SSI's Tigers in the Snow & Shiloh for the Apple II. It's the reason why I bought an Apple II.
I forgot what game was my first IBM PC game. I think it was either an SSI or SSG Apple II game ported to the PC. SSI & SSG were my favorite computer wargame companies then (mid-/late-80's). Time sure flies!!
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My first "true" wargame was Midway by SSI. It was written in Basic, and you could enter the program and change everything...
Or at least I could then. Today I'm too sclerotic to pull the very same feat. Some memories are not beautiful, but depressing [:'(]
Or at least I could then. Today I'm too sclerotic to pull the very same feat. Some memories are not beautiful, but depressing [:'(]
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Probably Ancient Battles on Amstrad CPC 464. Not sure.
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Theatre Europe on the mighty Amstrad CPC6128. It was a mid-80s game about a Warsaw Pact invasion of Western Europe. Great stuff. Then, after a long hiatus, The Ardennes Offensive by SSG. This quickly led to The Operational Art of War etc etc
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Midway was by Avalon Hill...ORIGINAL: RFalvo69
My first "true" wargame was Midway by SSI. It was written in Basic, and you could enter the program and change everything...
However, there is/was a Midway scenario in Carrier Force by SSI...
I played the shtdog out of Midway, Bismark and Planet Miners by Avalon Hill back in the day of great ascii wargames. Anyone else have Blue Powder and Grey Smoke or Under Fire?
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I played the shtdog out of Midway, Bismark and Planet Miners by Avalon Hill back in the day of great ascii wargames. Anyone else have Blue Powder and Grey Smoke or Under Fire?
While Blue Powder Grey Smoke was by Ralph Bosson (who did Under Fire, pictured above), he released it under his own company "Garde"...
Still those were two challenging games for their time. I like to have never beat the Union at little round top. My men kept getting slaughtered at devils den.
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Close Combat 2: A Bridge Too Far, Panzer General II