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37 here,
Started also with a C-64 even with dataset [>:]
I played many genres of games from RGP´s, economic games etc but my favourite are strategic based games, turn based but also RT....titels coming in my mind are....
History linie 1914-18,CIV 1+2+3, Age of Rifles, Risk, Axis and Allies, The Operational Art of War 1+2, Battle Island 1+2,Vietnam, Uncommon Valour, Panzergeneral 1+2+3D+4, Star General, Master of Orion 1+2, Dune 1+2, Command & Conquer 1+2, Combat Mission,Strategic Command,Hearts of Iron 1+2,Europa Universalis 1+2, Victoria ......only to name some....[:D]

Waiting for Empire in Arms now !!! one of my favourite board games i played.

I'm 29.

I started really getting strategy games on the Spectrum 48k about 1985. Rebelstar 1 & 2, Lords Of Midnight, R.T. Smith's series of Arnhem, Desert Rats and Vulcan, being the most notable. In Amiga days, RTSs came in like Populus or Dune 2, but I moved back to harder wargame stuff when I got a PC as I felt so many RTSs were nothing but exercises in rapid mouse clicking.

Gaming has changed over the years. In the early days, home computer games tended to be quite slow (even the action/arcade ones) compared to nowadays, and stuff like board games were more common as computers were rarer. I think kids are more attracted to flashy, short-attention span stuff and nowadays I think it's exacerbated by the fact many only experience a culture of console and console-style games, bypassing board games and slower PC material entirely.

47, this is my second reply to this post.

I just wanted to say were I started. Well it was with Panzerblitz and Richtofen's War (Board games). Went on to War in Europe and Squad Leader. First PC game was on a Radio Shack (not Tandy) PC with like 64k ram, lol. It was a game by Avalon Hill microcomputer games called Telegard. Fantasy Dungeon delving. You loaded the game from a cassette deck!

Favorites now are WAW, Decisive Battles Series, and Dominion 2 (by the way is the best Stategy game out there). I didn't think I would say that about a fantasy game, but that sucker is deeeeeeep!

I'm 44. Been playing games since Tactics II, way back around 1974? Then Third Reich, Panzer Leader, Arab-Israeli Wars, Squad Leader, Russian Front, War and Peace, and lots of others. Lately, for those that know me on the other boards, I have been consumed with Strategic Command 2 and Anglo-German War. I HAVE played through a few games of GGWAW as WA and Russians, and wish I could say I've played more. So many games, so little time. Oh well. [;)]

I'm 28. When I was 10 or 11 one of my friends had some WWI fighter dueling game where you each moved and then cross-referenced your positions and headings and looked up a page in a book to see a picture of the other fighter as seen from yours, along with your chances to hit. Don't remember the name. I haven't seen anything like it since.

By 14 I was playing Europe Aflame, Advanced Third Reich, WWII: Pacific Theater of Operations, Arab Israeli Wars, and a bunch of miniatures rules that I got from library books. At that time I hadn't played many computer games. Genghis Khan, CHQ, and some generic Nintendo wargame.

When I was younger, I liked the really complex ones best. As I grew older, I tended more towards Axis & Allies and other simpler, quicker games. GGWaW is a perfect balance for me. Quick and easy, but not too abstract.

BTW, Age of Rifles didn't run on my Win95 PC, but it ran fine on my Win98 one. Haven't tried it on 2000 or XP, but it might work. I still play WCS II: Tanks (although I have to use DosBox, else the graphics scramble).

I'm 45. Started with Squad Leader probably around '81-82. Then came Third Reich and a host of others. Started to make own games in the early '90s (for personal use, of course). I've just finished a 90x90 hex map of the 1815 Campaign, so we're still going strong over here.

55 years young.

First PC game was Starflight.

Risk for the PC, every original Microprose, Electronic arts, Sierra sims & all their subsidiaries you can think of, Steel Panthers I, II,III, Age of Rifles.

Rick White

31- married
No kids!!!![:)]

52

I'm 55. Started way back around 1960 with Milton Bradley's Stratego, Battle Cry (American Heritage game of the Civil War) and Broadsides. Then found Avalon Hill's Tactics II, Waterloo, Battle of the Bulge and the rest of their line. I can remember when there were less than a dozen wargames for sale in the entire world. Been buying games ever since including having a subscription to SPI's Strategy and Tactics for several years. Have hundreds of board games and dozens of computer games. Haven't been buying many wargames (board) in quite a while but I do play Advanced Squad Leader every week. Got into computer games when I got my first IBM clone. It was a 25 meg processor with a 20 meg hard drive. Wow have times changed. I'm on my sixth computer, a Pent IV at 3 gigs with a 200 gig hard drive. Amazing.

Ah, you had to ask....well I'm 72 years old and started wargaming with "Silent Hunter 2" and "Panzer General II" in 1999. Stumbled into SPwaw version 4.5 and its been my primary game ever since.

40, although I don't look a day over 39 [;)]


I'm very surprised at the poll results (I think Matrix may be too.) Even though you would expect wargames to pull in a more mature crowd than other genres, the average age is significantly higher than I expected.

Hi!

I'm 26 now, I enjoy most of Matrix games (but most of them is pretty hard to get where I am), but the only one for me right now (before WPO or War in Russia come out) is WitP. I think I searched for the game like that for many years; I started in 1992 with ZX Spectrum platform games like Arnhem, Vulcan, Guadalcanal and so on. Years passed, I got my first PC down here and somehow occasionally got one of Gary Grigsby's games - it was World War II - Battles in Pacific, or such. Then I suddenly lost it without a trace and was searching for it for 10 or so years until last year, when I downloaded it from underdogs. But it was a bit late: I got WitP, wich is better, bigger and more complex - just the one for my insane mind.[:)]

Alex.

I'm 40; feel like 60 some times though. My first strategy game was Risk with my school mates. Those late night sessions were a blast. My first proper wargame was Caesar: Alesia from Avalon Hill and after that Third Reich. Been a devoted wargamer ever since.

21 here. [:D]

My first wargame (and computer game for that matter) was Panzer General.

After that i've always been a fan of strategy and wargames, first RTS then further and further into the gronard zone with SPW@W, TOAW and finally WITP

Why no option for 18 and under? [:'(]

One up there now...

I'm 32, and apparently too old to remember my first wargame. I THINK it might have been Microprose's old Crusade in Europe on the C64. Either that, or the same firm's Conflict in Vietnam.

58 here

ORIGINAL: SeaMonkey

54. It was the spring of 66 at Gulfgate shopping center in Houston Tx. Browsing a hobby shop, there was AH's DDAY, and the rest is history. Damn that 7-4 2nd Panzer Division counter was hard to kill.

Hey SeaMonkey!

We might be putting together a semi-monthly boardgaming day soon in the Houston/Spring area, very similar to the Old Farts Gaming Day I used to run at the Highway 6 location of GamesMasters back around 1991 and 1992.

Let me know if you're interested. We also have a computer gaming group, Eat Flaming Death, that meets about every 6 to 8 weeks for a LAN party consisting mainly of RTS and or Racing games, but we do play the occasional shooter for an hour or two.

Regards,

Rob

BTW, I live in Spring.

Almost 47, but I feel 46.

Hmmm, first boxed wargames were AH Blitzkrieg and Afrika Korps. My older brother sent them home from a PX in Tailand for Christmas of 72. Started making my own wargames well before that, first one was a very Risk like game in 1968. I had never seen Risk, and it suprised me that someone had turned my idea into a game when I did play Risk years later. Been making wargames ever since.

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