OT-What was your first computer simulation

[crsutton]

This was in the news today. Atari's ET is still considered one of the worst computer games ever made....[;)]


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... 00-on-ebay

[Jorge_Stanbury]

They raised $37K but the excavation cost $50K

I doubt they will go even; as all the fanboys probably got their cartridge already.

Moreover, I read they built so many, that even before the digging, it was not hard to buy it on Ebay

[Skyros]

My first Computer game was Sid Myer's Pirates, first real war game was Warship, followed by an AH tank game and Carrier Strike. Then Pacific War and the rest is history.

[LargeSlowTarget]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

Great Naval Battles

Me too [;)] I wish I could get a DOS boxed version [:(]

My first PC Sim. Actually GNB II. Was an Amiga player at the time, saw GNB II at a local computer store and purchased my very first PC just for this game.

[offenseman]

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)

Ditto.

But at home "Battle of Midway" on a trash 80 with cassette tape memory. It was always best to CAP with 13 fighters, not 12 or 14 or any other number. Just 13. lol

[m10bob]

I had a Korean War game on a tape drive for the C64, and to this day I still miss the Korean War as a war to simulate..
Nothing on the market fits the bill at all.

[pnzrgnral]

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I had many of the games mentioned in this thread for that computer; some I played far more than others. "Warship" was one of my favorites; I even created Sunda Strait, Balikpapan and Komandorski scenarios for that game. I never could find "Battlecruiser" though.

[wdolson]

ORIGINAL: crsutton

This was in the news today. Atari's ET is still considered one of the worst computer games ever made....[;)]


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... 00-on-ebay

Still better than Desert Bus:

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/desert-bus-the-very-worst-video-game-ever-created

Bill

[Aurelian]

Carriers at War for the C64.

[Aurelian]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

ORIGINAL: crsutton

This was in the news today. Atari's ET is still considered one of the worst computer games ever made....[;)]


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... 00-on-ebay

Still better than Desert Bus:

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/desert-bus-the-very-worst-video-game-ever-created

Bill

I think "Custer's Revenge" takes the worst ever award.

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

Great Naval Battles

Me too [;)] I wish I could get a DOS boxed version [:(]

My first PC Sim. Actually GNB II. Was an Amiga player at the time, saw GNB II at a local computer store and purchased my very first PC just for this game.

GNB II was a pretty good game. The same scope as UV. I spent a lot of time playing it. Then GNB III came and promised the world but never did work right..

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

ORIGINAL: crsutton

This was in the news today. Atari's ET is still considered one of the worst computer games ever made....[;)]


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... 00-on-ebay

Still better than Desert Bus:

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/desert-bus-the-very-worst-video-game-ever-created

Bill

That is hilarious. I would expect that from Penn and Teller. Have you ever seen "The Aristocrats?" a movie about the crudest most offensive joke ever told.

[danlongman]

Eastern Front on the Atari 800. The AI plotted it's move during
your move so the faster you ended turn the less time the processor
worked on it's solution.

[offenseman]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

I had a Korean War game on a tape drive for the C64, and to this day I still miss the Korean War as a war to simulate..
Nothing on the market fits the bill at all.

If I recall correctly, Operational Art of War or another Norm Koger title had some Korean War stuff including perhaps a campaign game.

[Panjack]

The first computer simulation I played, a baseball game, was one I wrote in maybe 1971 or 1972. I'm guessing I used Basic or Fortran. I connected to a mainframe computer from home using a phone and an acoustic coupler. The program was "stored" on paper tape which I had to feed into a reader on the dumb terminal (similar to a teletype machine) each time I connected. The only player input was to set lineups or to change the data the program used.

It wasn't until maybe 1987 that I got my own PC. I think the first war game I played was a WWII submarine game but I can't remember much about it. I really haven't played many war games until WITP-AE...nor do I know much about military matters. The only computer game I've played more than briefly, that is before WITP-AE, has been Out Of The Park Baseball.

[cantona2]

Crusade in Europe, Silent Service, Gunship and Pirates! All on tape on the C64. Thank the Gods for Microprose in the late 80's

[LST Express]

My first game was XOR Nfl challenge, bought the game before I even had a computer. We formed a league, drafted teams and played our games one night a week at a friends uncles computer store. Loved that game!