How many of you started with......

[wodin]

Chits=Counters

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: wodin

Chits=Counters

warspite1

In that case, no, not that I recall - it was just a computer game....

[scattergun]

I'm really dately myself with this one but it Was Star Trek on a TRS-80...such changes since then. Now I feel very old.

[VPaulus]

ZX-Spectrum 16K with type-in programs.

[Ketza]

My first Computer wargame was on an Apple II+. It was the SSI Guadacanal game. I followed up with the WWII med naval game Bomb alley.

My first board wargame was D-Day from Avalon Hill.

[Capt. Harlock]

My first Computer wargame was on an Apple II+. It was the SSI Guadacanal game. I followed up with the WWII med naval game Bomb alley.

Interesting. Same here, except that I bought "North Atlantic '86" for my second and "Bomb Alley" for my third.

[aaatoysandmore]

The Guadacanal game was a naval game though wasn't it? How I wished for an Avalon Hill Land based version of it.

[Saint Ruth]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

+1 except it was Desert Rats not Arnhem [:)]

Ah, it was Desert Rats AND Arnhem!

Just found this! Can play it (and Desert Wars) here!

http://torinak.com/qaop#!arnhem

Now, if only I wasn't in work...

[Mobeer]

Guadacanal (on the Spectrum anyway) was a full land, sea and air thing, where the most important unit of all was a single floatplane. Not many games have had a floatplane as the key unit.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Saint Ruth

ORIGINAL: warspite1

+1 except it was Desert Rats not Arnhem [:)]

Ah, it was Desert Rats AND Arnhem!

Just found this! Can play it (and Desert Wars) here!

http://torinak.com/qaop#!arnhem

Now, if only I wasn't in work...

warspite1

WOW!!!! [&o] Thanks for posting Saint Ruth. And to think, those graphics were just the dogs dangly bits back in the day!

[Deon]

I am a bit sad that Atari market was almost nonexistent in Russia back then, so my first experience was ZX SPECTRUM. Those were some really good times. I remember making "custom controllers" from typewriter buttons when I was a kid, it was a unique experience.