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OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 8:48:47 PM   
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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 9:03:44 PM   
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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 9:05:50 PM   
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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 9:08:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		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.

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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 9:08:52 PM   
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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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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 9:26:24 PM   
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(text_game)

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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 9:36:50 PM   
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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 9:55:23 PM   
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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.

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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 9:58:34 PM   
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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.

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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 10:00:21 PM   
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bought a computer to play it!

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

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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 10:24:58 PM   
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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 10:41:41 PM   
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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 10:58:33 PM   
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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 11:24:59 PM   
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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 11:26:11 PM   
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On Gorn mine was called Humanoid Invaders. Every time we shot a humanoid down, it made a sound like Woody Woodpecker.






Hey Gorn, baby picture?

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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/14/2014 11:44:04 PM   
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The first ones I had on floppy was North Atlantic 1986 and USAAF.

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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/15/2014 12:05:29 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)



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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/15/2014 12:13:38 AM   
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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/15/2014 12:45:19 AM   
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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.)

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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/15/2014 2:56:03 AM   
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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/15/2014 3:14:43 AM   
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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/15/2014 4:50:33 AM   
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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 .

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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/15/2014 4:54:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		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.

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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/15/2014 5:27:38 AM   
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I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not qualified to opine officially. This is just my amateur spit balling.

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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.







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

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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/15/2014 5:39:29 AM   
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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/15/2014 5:56:26 AM   
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RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation - 11/15/2014 6:54:12 AM   
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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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