Our Ages.....

[Iron Duke]

Hi,

------------47---------- 1st computer wargame was Eastern Front? by Chris Crawford but it was GG and SSI that got me hooked.

[Ron Saueracker]

ORIGINAL: Iron Duke

Hi,

------------47---------- 1st computer wargame was Eastern Front? by Chris Crawford but it was GG and SSI that got me hooked.

Love the name "IronDuke". Wellington aside, probably one ofthe best names for a battleship ever. "Warspite" is another. Dreadnought of course. The British had some of the best names, along with France. (Sans Pareil is brilliant) Was never a big fan of naming ships after towns, states, counties however. Boring and politically motivated.

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: Iron Duke

Hi,

------------47---------- 1st computer wargame was Eastern Front? by Chris Crawford but it was GG and SSI that got me hooked.

oh my god....Eastern Front! blast from the past. Still remember trying to counter all those hordes of red squares...

[highblooded]

Hey buckeye,
You caught me, I was on my way home from work when I realized that it was Gygax. I was hoping to edit my post before anyone might notice. [8|]

[TheMusicalMarine]

Twenty years of age. I received Uncommon Valor four days before I left for basic training. My dreams for the next 3 months were monopolized by hypothetical Japanese operations in Papua.

[Captain Ed]

I`M 51 STARTED PLAYING WARGAMES WITH AVALON HILLS AFRIKA KORP WHEN I WAS 12 OR 13 PLAYED EVERY BOARDGAME MADE BY THEM SINCE. THANK GOD FOR COMPUTERS MY FIRST WAS 386 SX 16 PLAYED CIVILSATION SOME 19 YEARS AGO, NOW ON MY SIXTH COMPUTER AND MERRILY BEATING THE H--- OUT OF MARK VII IN UV MAN I LOVE THIS STUFF

[Admiral DadMan]

ORIGINAL: TheMusicalMarine

Twenty years of age. I received Uncommon Valor four days before I left for basic training. My dreams for the next 3 months were monopolized by hypothetical Japanese operations in Papua.

OMG. Talk about sweet torture... I can't imagine (well, actually I could with pictures, kodachrome slides on 35mm... *ahem*) what that would have done to me. I thought no sex in Boot Camp was bad enough...

[brisd]

44 here. My first 3 wargames were AH's Stalingrad, Tactics II and Blitzkrieg, way back in '73.

[ChuckK]

Hi all,

I'm another graying panther (44 years old) who has been playing wargames since his teens. Like others here that includes both Avalon Hill and the old SPI subscription games. Red Storm Raising on an Atari ST, Carriers at War on a Mac, PTO-1 on a SNES, Task Force '42, PTO-2 and Silent Hunter I on PCs are some computer gems of the past that come immediately to mind.

I had a joyful moment a couple of weeks ago. I was going through me Mom's basement and found my fully intact copy of AH's Jutland! I'm going to clear off my dining room table and have at it. My family is going to think I've finally gone over the edge when I send those lines of oversized counters steaming towards each other. [:D]

Best, -ChucK

[kfmiller41]

46 here, been a wargamer since I was 14 and love it[:D]

[Raskal67]

Just turned 37 here. I was laughing at the list of games everyone has owned/played. Put me down for all of the above. My best early experiences are playing Tactics II with my father at 11 and losing badly, then Midway at 12 and even winning once, I think it was even legit.
Paul

[kaleun]

44; 45 in october
First wargames played: WSPAC in the C64. Also Red storm rising in C24. Then played USAAF and War in the Pacific in an 8088 PC.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: kaleun
Also Red storm rising in C24.

Ahhh... "Red Storm Rising"... the very first game I created tool for editing (using straight machine language) on my Commodore 64 (I was not happy with how they gave stats to tanks and I rectified it and used better and more realistic values - I still have the printouts of how I did that somewhere)...

Those were the days of youth in 1980's... [8D]


Leo "Apollo11"


P.S.
My best game on C64 was, of course, "Elite" - I played it for days, weeks, months and years but finally I realized that there was no "infinite" universe in it and wanted to see all goodies so I made (again machine language program) tool for altering savegame stats (the "Elite" had nice checksum routine that disallowed such activities but all was possible if you were persistent). And now (shame on me) I am IT professional but have, unfortunately, totally neglected my programming skills in past 20 years... [;)]

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: kaleun

44; 45 in october
First wargames played: WSPAC in the C64. Also Red storm rising in C24. Then played USAAF and War in the Pacific in an 8088 PC.

LOL.....my first "PC" wargame was "Second Front", also played on an 8088 PC, with a whopping 40meg hard drive. (very exotic for a guy who's last computer was an Atari 800 with an Indus Disk drive)

God i remember how SLOW it used to run......took a good 5 - 15 minutes for the combat phase to resolve. Run the same program now on a Pentium and you can be zip through the phase with msg delay set to 0 in about 1 minute. [:)]

[ZOOMIE1980]

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[Mr.Frag]

Let's all date ourselves. Who all remembers "Hunt the Wumpus" ?

[Becket]

ORIGINAL: Mr.Frag

Let's all date ourselves. Who all remembers "Hunt the Wumpus" ?

Okay, that's scary. Hunt the Wumpus and Oregon Trail are the earliest computer games I can recall (though I was very young at the time).

Of course, I also remember when Space Invaders machines started popping up in my town.

[Onime No Kyo]

I wouldnt want to date myself....I'm very difficult to get along with. [:D]

[madflava13]

I finally am biting the bullet and admitting I'm one of the youngsters around here... 24 years old. (But I'm in Law School and it's aging me rapidly)

First games were Pacwar, Silent Service, Red Storm Rising, TF 1942 and Carriers at War... Thank Tom Clancy and Larry Bond for getting me into wargaming though - first board game was the Hunt for Red October.

[Nikademus]

M.U.L.E.

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