15 years!!

[wodin]

First game.. It was either Red devils over Arnhem (was that Matrix), Uncommon Valour or DB Korsun Pocket (all bought from a store! Imagine that). Followed by DB Italy and HTTR.

Games that brought me to the forum where Combat Leader (where art though. The real-time Pacific game aswell) and coming through Wargamer Soldiers at War. This was pre 2003 but had been offline for couple of years and come 2003 had forgot my sign in. Whenever SaW was released and 101st Airborne is when I first joined, if I actually did sign up then, again can't remember.

[dox44]

yeah Congrats Wodin. enjoy reading your posts sir!

[wodin]

Dox44, please go check out A Wargamers Needful Things if you haven't already.

Thanks everyone..though all I did was keep breathing:)

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: wodin

Dox44, please go check out A Wargamers Needful Things if you haven't already.

Thanks everyone..though all I did was keep breathing:)

Most times, that's a bonus [;)]

[wodin]

Not advisable under water so I'm led to believe..apparently it's the only place your best not doing it unless you have some sort of new fangeled special contraption..again what I've been told..

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

ORIGINAL: wodin

Dox44, please go check out A Wargamers Needful Things if you haven't already.

Thanks everyone..though all I did was keep breathing:)

Most times, that's a bonus [;)]

[nicwb]

First game.. It was either Red devils over Arnhem (was that Matrix), Uncommon Valour or DB Korsun Pocket (all bought from a store! Imagine that). Followed by DB Italy and HTTR.

Don't think Red Devils was - that was the forerunner for Command Ops. Uncommon Valour and Korsun Pocket -certainly were. But you're right - I remember getting Uncommon Valour from a shop -does anyone still really do that ? [:)]

[MikeBrough]

It'll be 14 years at the end of this month for me. And only a couple of hundred posts in all that time - but every one a polished gem!

First games were Uncommon ValoUr, COTA and Flashpoint Germany. Still have them all and play them from time to time, especially UV.

[MrsWargamer]

Not familiar with the exact month, but I believe Matrix Games (the forums here), dates from 1999.

I missed the beginning by mere months.

I should also mention, some likely will recall, but the 'www' barely predates 2000. Thus a forum any forum, would be challenged to exist in any useful easy fashion much prior to 2000.

I'm guessing the game we know as Steel Panthers World at War would also have trouble originating earlier than 1997, as the release the code is built on was Steel Panthers III Brigade Combat. And that hails from 1997. Allowing for time for the individuals who crafted SPWaW to make it happen, showing up with it before 1999 likely would be a challenge.

It was sure a bear to find methods to get new versions of it in the early days.

[demyansk]

Good call wargamer, I was wondering of why I didn't start earlier.

[wodin]

Hmm...I would say pre 97. That's the latest I'd go. My mate was online in 97. I was early 98. Some point in 98/99 I was in a Mechcommander campaign which had a forum. I remember Gamespot being around then and I'm sure Amazon. Some point around then I was even on a bidding website as I got a voodoo graphics card dirt cheap.

Think 2000 is abit late as a cut off.

ORIGINAL: MrsWargamer

Not familiar with the exact month, but I believe Matrix Games (the forums here), dates from 1999.

I missed the beginning by mere months.

I should also mention, some likely will recall, but the 'www' barely predates 2000. Thus a forum any forum, would be challenged to exist in any useful easy fashion much prior to 2000.

I'm guessing the game we know as Steel Panthers World at War would also have trouble originating earlier than 1997, as the release the code is built on was Steel Panthers III Brigade Combat. And that hails from 1997. Allowing for time for the individuals who crafted SPWaW to make it happen, showing up with it before 1999 likely would be a challenge.

It was sure a bear to find methods to get new versions of it in the early days.

[MrsWargamer]

Well, I was 'online' in 1990, but, it sure wasn't 'online' in the same way we know of it now.

My first computer was an IBM PS1 and it was supposed to just be a writing tool. My modem was a slow as heck screeching nuisance, and loading a web page, in the beginning, was measured in minutes, not 1-3 seconds. I spent a lot of time chatting on mIRC programs, mainly ICQ.

95% of my internet experience was primarily between 2000 and 2005. Hard to believe I did so much, on so many forums within 3 years. The forum thing for me died a slow death from 2005 to 2007. It was really never the same after 2007. The last 10 years has been mostly a big hole. The last 4 have been massive doses of major life change.

My board game wargaming never reeeeally made it into this century. My computer based wargaming was primarily from 2000 to 2003.
I'd have never ended up a computer-based wargamer if not for Steel Panthers World at War. Prior to SPWaW, I'd have flat out laughed at the notion you could play a wargame on a computer

As such, almost all of my computer wargaming was essentially as a result of my encountering Matrix Games in 2000.

I learned most of what I know about computers thanks to a young lad I met in the 90s that was instrumental in teaching me how to burn copies of SPWaW to cd

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