Gen. Zeitzler Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 What was you first Computer Wargame? Mine was EASTERN FRONT by ATARI!! This game was released in 1980 or 1981 I think! It's been so long i can't remember. Can anyone beat that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuniworth Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 I played "Artillery assault on Hitler" by EG Games from 1978. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codename Condor Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 . [ February 21, 2006, 04:00 PM: Message edited by: Codename Condor ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_j_rambo Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 I remember playing "Stategic Conquest" on my Mac in the late 80's. Then came Strategic Conquest #2. Also played "Patton vs. Rommel" on Mac. I played some "Armor Assault" game on Apple II-E, but I forget the exact name. Now, if you count video games, then it was "Tank" on Atari-1600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yogi Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 I can't remember the manufacturer, but it was Gettysburg - made to play on the Apple IIc I wasn't all that bad, but quite simple if you go back and look at it today. No color, no fancy terrain, just drawings of elevations similar the some of the original board wargames. The "counters" were just a simple soldier or cannon. Would have been circa about 1981 or so. Came on 5.25 disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin P. Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 My first comouter wargame was Eastern Front by Atari; which had mud and snow weather effects, followed by an Ancient Rome era computer Game released by Avalon Hill. The Roman era game was interesting as you got to fight against different barbarian tribes - each had different strengths and weaknesses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockylock Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Defender of the crown (1987, commodore 64) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defender_of_the_Crown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 First ones I ever bought was B-1 Nuclear Bomber and Nukewar by Avalon Hill. 1980. Everything else before then was pretty much free or you programmed it in yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retributar Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Mine was a board-game called KRIEGSPIEL...it had two factional entities...the Black pieces were called 'BLACKBUTTE' and for Red,...i do not recall what they were named!. Anyway,[it's been many year's so i can't recall much!] for each combat you needed to ROLL the DICE to get your COMBAT-ODDS as well as...select a card from the deck to give you your Final-Result instructions for after Combat,...such as to HOLD-FAST,RETREAT,ADVANCE AFTER COMBAT,Etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuniworth Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 ANother great computer game is "Grosse Anschlussen 1939-1945" by german company Historical simulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gen. Zeitzler Posted February 17, 2006 Author Share Posted February 17, 2006 One of my favorite old games was GUADALCANAL CAMPAIGN by Gary Grigsby. Poor Graphics but a thinking man's game. Too bad u couldn't play the Japanese! Around 1981 I bought my first computer, an ATARI 400 at a computer show in Boston MA. I also bought BATTLES FOR NORMANDY there also. Was anyone there? I think it was late summer or fall of that year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gen. Zeitzler Posted February 18, 2006 Author Share Posted February 18, 2006 Now that I think about it a little more The Computer show in Boston might have been in 1982. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fubarno Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Like Lars, I played B-1 Bomber and Nuke War by Avalon Hill. My dad bought them, I was in my teens, and I remeber playing this text only games on his projection TV. Sometime in early 80's. We've come a long way.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Harpoon II (Dos 3.6) 5.25" Diskettes. Biggest A.I Battle: Fighting himem.sys, config.sys & autoexec.bat to squeeze every bit out of 640kB of memory. and Chessmaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don't Shoot Me Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 My first computer wargame was SSI's Battle of the Bulge written for the Apple II+ in 1981. It was pretty good for the time. For years after that the Apple II series had all the good games. SSI made a lot of the Apple wargames back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Patrick Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Decision in the Desert, Commodore 64. I loved the game. Still think about how good the gameplay was. Of course, I've since played it again and was frustrated with the graphics, but not much has been as much fun and had as much replayability at that game. SC1 was that type game. JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRO,JD Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 SSI's "Tigers in the Snow" and AH's B-1 Bomber. It took a long time to load those games from my cassette drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_j_rambo Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Was there any Radio Shack TSR-80 games? A.K.A. Trash 80's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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