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crsutton -> OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 8:48:47 PM)

Epyx's "Sub Battle" for my Leading Edge PC.. 20MB hard drive. Got so addicted that my wife threatened marriage counselling. She finally game up with that idea and resigned herself to her fate.



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Footslogger -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 9:03:44 PM)

Decision in the Desert by Microprose C64 (1985)

Wing Commander II by Origin IBM 386 (1991)



Encircled -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 9:05:50 PM)

Arnhem on the Spectrum 48k. Used to play it on hotseat with a mate, until we worked out that by massing the allied artillery, the Germans could never win

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rustysi -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 9:08:44 PM)

Don't recall its name, but it was a carrier battle game based on early Pacific war. Midway, Coral Sea, and a couple other scenarios. Maybe Santa Cruz, and Eastern Solomns? I think it was an SSI publication.



HansBolter -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 9:08:52 PM)

Aces of the Pacific with the 1946 expansion module:

http://www.sierragamers.com/aces-of-the-pacific

Plying the F8 Bearcat was awesome!



stretch -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 9:22:10 PM)


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ORIGINAL: rustysi

Don't recall its name, but it was a carrier battle game based on early Pacific war. Midway, Coral Sea, and a couple other scenarios. Maybe Santa Cruz, and Eastern Solomns? I think it was an SSI publication.


Also my first:

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nashvillen -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 9:26:24 PM)

Star Trek on a teletype machine with a local community college on that yellow teletype paper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(text_game)



KenchiSulla -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 9:36:50 PM)

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eosVhMLr1A



LoBaron -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 9:55:23 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Cannonfodder

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eosVhMLr1A


Some fond memories of this one.

But I think the first 'sim' I ever played was Elite on my C64. After that MS Flight Simulator on a 286.



Skyros -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 9:58:34 PM)


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ORIGINAL: nashvillen

Star Trek on a teletype machine with a local community college on that yellow teletype paper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(text_game)

Same played it at Tufts university when left in my older brothers care.



IdahoNYer -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 10:00:21 PM)

Computer Ambush by SSI

bought a computer to play it!



apbarog -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 10:08:30 PM)

Was either subLOGIC's Flight Simulator FS1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubLOGIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvfJ60gIf0

or Computer Bismarck by SSI, both on an Apple II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Bismarck



geofflambert -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 10:24:58 PM)

On Gorn mine was called Humanoid Invaders. Every time we shot a humanoid down, it made a sound like Woody Woodpecker.

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geofflambert -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 10:41:41 PM)

If you don't know who Woody Woodpecker was, look here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukDs7wScLUI



Lowpe -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 10:58:33 PM)

Some kind of hybrid board game and computer game (on the C64) that loaded on a cassette player. I think I bought two: one on the France 1940 and the other on the Bismarck. I think...



patrickl -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 11:24:59 PM)

Microprose Task Force 1942. Enuff said.[&o]



rustysi -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 11:26:11 PM)


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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

On Gorn mine was called Humanoid Invaders. Every time we shot a humanoid down, it made a sound like Woody Woodpecker.

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Hey Gorn, baby picture?[:D]



joey -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/14/2014 11:44:04 PM)

SCRAM followed by Tigers in the Snow. Both were on a cassette tape. I was so happy once floppy disks were invented. It made game play so much easier.
The first ones I had on floppy was North Atlantic 1986 and USAAF.



Mike Solli -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/15/2014 12:05:29 AM)

I played that one too. Found it by accident.

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ORIGINAL: nashvillen

Star Trek on a teletype machine with a local community college on that yellow teletype paper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(text_game)




crsutton -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/15/2014 12:13:38 AM)

Yep, "Sub Battle" made me get my first color monitor. EGA three colors. But it was "Battle Hawks 1942" that drove me to get a full color VGA monitor. The games were already driving my hardware choices.




wdolson -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/15/2014 12:45:19 AM)


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ORIGINAL: nashvillen

Star Trek on a teletype machine with a local community college on that yellow teletype paper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(text_game)


I never played that, but I heard of it. One guy I worked with had a co-worker back in the day who was addicted and he wouldn't accept the Klingon's surrender. When the Klingons tried to surrender, he would keep attacking until they were destroyed. My friend edited the code so if you didn't accept surrender, Spock would shoot Kirk for violating the Geneva Convention. His co-worker got really angry.

I don't know for sure if it was my first wargame, but I came across a DOS, text based game that I think was influenced by Avalon Hill's War at Sea. It had ships in the Atlantic squaring off in gun battles. It was very primitive. I think I downloaded it from a BBS.

The first games I played were the text based games from Infocom. A lot of people played Zork, which I never had, but I played several of the others. I just came across the boxes for Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Bureaucracy, and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the other day. I never finished Bureaucracy.

I started buying AH computer games just before the demise of the company. The graphics are very primitive, but they had excellent game engines. I have trotted them out from time to time to play them again. Last time I did, I had to install VirtualPC and a very old version of Windows to get them to work. They won't work natively on any of the NT based Windows (Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, etc.)

Bill



drw61 -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/15/2014 2:56:03 AM)

The first one I remember playing was USAAF


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btd64 -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/15/2014 3:14:43 AM)

Not sure which one was first or the names, But one had a very good Veitnam game and the other was a M1 tank game. I think it was called M1 Tank simulator....GP



Lokasenna -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/15/2014 4:50:33 AM)

Hrm. Going way back here.

I played "Red Baron", a DOS game, in 1991-ish. Very fun, but difficult to play at a friend's house.

Then I played Falcon 2, a combat flight simulator. At least I think it was Falcon 2. This was back in the days of AOL, and you could get it through AOL... as well as Air Warrior 2, which I later bought on CD-ROM.

Then I bought this game which I believe was titled "Empire 2", but all google comes up with these days is Age of Empires 2, which is eff that. Empire 2 was a hex-based strategy game, and very customizable/modular. You could play WW1 scenarios, Battle of Jutland, the battle between the British and the Spanish Armada, Civil War battles, etc. - all using the same system! That game was/is amazing. I see it as very much a precursor to the type of game we have with WITP. When I go back to Iowa this winter, I will have to remember to look for that CD so I can find it. I bet I could make it work on Win7 - it didn't use much for graphics, so shouldn't have any compatibility issues due to drivers.

Also played arcade style games: Sink Sub Pro and NiteRaid [:D].



Lokasenna -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/15/2014 4:54:59 AM)

Ah, I found it - Empire II: The Art of War. I think the copyright has expired by now.

http://www.squakenet.com/download/empire-ii-the-art-of-war/7264/

I really enjoyed the game in a very meta way. I think I created a custom Battle of Midway scenario for it. Awfully fun for a 1990s game.



wdolson -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/15/2014 5:27:38 AM)

Copyrights are probably still good, but the original owner of those games are usually bought out or out of business and the current owner aren't enforcing the copyright. From what I've heard it's the responsibility of the copyright holder to enforce them. That's probably how those abandonware sites manage to stay up.

I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not qualified to opine officially. This is just my amateur spit balling.

Bill



Chris21wen -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/15/2014 5:30:05 AM)


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ORIGINAL: crsutton

Epyx's "Sub Battle" for my Leading Edge PC.. 20MB hard drive. Got so addicted that my wife threatened marriage counselling. She finally game up with that idea and resigned herself to her fate.



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I honestly can't remember but it was for an Apple II. Probably something like Kampfgroup.



Chris21wen -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/15/2014 5:39:29 AM)

That's not a simulation sorry.  I do remember one where you had to control a nuclear reactor.



pontiouspilot -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/15/2014 5:56:26 AM)

Leisure Suit Larry....i'm just kidding but I did buy it for a relative's kid and ruined him!! First was likely Perfect General, Carrier Strike and Secret W of Luft all about the same time.



jmalter -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/15/2014 6:54:12 AM)

Well I had some time where the only 'computer-game' action I got was by creating Excel macros to emulate the production-end of the SPI WitP board-game.

Then there was a period of Doom 95, ick.

I got quite involved in supporting Advanced Squad Leader by adding bits to Rodney Kinney's VASL/VASSAL thing.

Did a bit of MoH, but meh.



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