Old School

This new stand alone release based on the legendary War in the Pacific from 2 by 3 Games adds significant improvements and changes to enhance game play, improve realism, and increase historical accuracy. With dozens of new features, new art, and engine improvements, War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition brings you the most realistic and immersive WWII Pacific Theater wargame ever!

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How about a Prime mini-mainframe, on an accountic coupler and a dumb Teledyne monitor, with a phone WITH A ROTARY DIAL stuck in the rubber cups, playing a Star Trek game with ASCII symbols for ships on a 10 x 10 x,y grid? In 1977?

Do I win anything? [:)]

Alas, no. Playing on a minicomputer at school or work doesn't count. [;)]
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RE: Old School

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
How about a Prime mini-mainframe, on an accountic coupler and a dumb Teledyne monitor, with a phone WITH A ROTARY DIAL stuck in the rubber cups, playing a Star Trek game with ASCII symbols for ships on a 10 x 10 x,y grid? In 1977?

Do I win anything? [:)]

Alas, no. Playing on a minicomputer at school or work doesn't count. [;)]

Who makes up these rules?! [;)]

First PC game was on an AppleII, not an AppleIIe. Summer of 1979.
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Who makes up these rules?! [;)]

First PC game was on an AppleII, not an AppleIIe. Summer of 1979.

Ah, there's the rub. I think we're talking about personal/home computers. (My first experiences with home-computer gaming were on my friend's Apple II+.)
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RE: Old School

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Who makes up these rules?! [;)]

First PC game was on an AppleII, not an AppleIIe. Summer of 1979.

Ah, there's the rub. I think we're talking about personal/home computers. (My first experiences with home-computer gaming were on my friend's Apple II+.)

I was a summer camp counselor in my last summer of college. It was a science and technology camp at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. I was teaching BASIC programming, which I had exactly one college course in; this tells you how desperate the camp organizers were for staff. A 14-YO kid showed up with an AppleII his folks had bought him. I had never seen a personal computer. The thought of having a computer at one's home seemed bizarre.

I ended up playing side-scroll games against him every day during the camp. I really wanted one, but they were about $3000, and that would almost buy you a new car then.
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