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ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck

"Gunship" by Microprose. The org. C-64 one.

I played and played and played and played .....

I remember 'Gunship' though it didn't grab me all that much. I'm not sure if 'Dungeon Master' was a C-64 game. It was a long time ago anyway - I LIVED in that game for months!

gunship was funny b/c u got points for damage too so the best mission outcome was to be blown out of the sky about 5' off the pad. Landing in a pile of scrapmetal was considered good flying and points were awarded accordingly [8D] I got good at it.

PTO2 will run on windows u can get it at underdog

I prolly played panzer general 2 more than anything. I didn't leave the crib for months I was obsessed w/ it.

Colonization, CivII and WitP. Got over the first two (barely), haven't gotten over the last one yet.

Civ II and any of the Cossacks series. Many are the times that I saw the sun come up on these games.

Oh yeah, Cossacks was great. Nothing can beat delivering a point blank volley from 18c Musketeers on a bunch of 16c pikemen or archers.

ORIGINAL: Tankerace

Oh yeah, Cossacks was great. Nothing can beat delivering a point blank volley from 18c Musketeers on a bunch of 16c pikemen or archers.

Or a battery of cannon on a hill blasting away at AI driven troops making repeated futile assaults.

The AI wasn't that good, but definitely fun to annihilate armies.

For me, SSI's Fighter Command. Superb mix of turn-based strategizing and real-time reacting.

ORIGINAL: Raverdave

Doom, the original. I played and played that game. Then there was the original Sim city. Lots of wasted time[:D]

SimCity was the only reason I bought a Super Nintendo...I was deployed to Okinawa and didn't have much else to do...[:D]

Doom. Ugh. Can't stand 1st person shooters.

I think I've spent more time with WitP than anything lately, but I guess the all-time record has to go to Civ.

Steve.

Computer Game - Pacific War
Board Game -Wooden Ship, Iron Men.
Board Landlubber Game - Squad Leader

Civilization could be near top. Other candidates include Wing Commander 2, TIE Fighter CD and Total Annihilation.

Tie Fighter was an awesome game! I went all the way to the end and beat it. But I cant count the number of times I started and finished an epic game of CIV II. Out of all the games on PC and console I've played over the years none have matched CIV II.

NBA 06 probably took atleast 2 weeks of my life. I played through the career mode on it and it was pretty fun. I built up a no body character and turned him into a superstar. pure greatness.

ORIGINAL: Juggalo

Colonization, Civ I and Age of Empires. Colonization was a neat game and I wish I still had it.

Hey, check it out...
get Colonization, Civ I and II here for free!
Good luck running them on XP though!

I've not tried install my Civ I, I think that might be stored away on 5 1/4's

However have Civ II and Colonization on this XP Home and they run fine.

Need put in a 9x compatiability mode and 2048 XMS in properties so it can run
as colonization is a Dos game and looks for upper ram like one had with the old 486/386's with like 2-4 MB ram.

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck

ORIGINAL: Cmdrcain

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck

"Gunship" by Microprose. The org. C-64 one.

I played and played and played and played .....

I remember that.

But the C-64 game that ate up my time was Pirates, with Original Silent Service a close second.

I would say that Silent Service and Pirates ate up 10 minutes less then Gunship! [;)]

Another that comes to mind was an part PC part board type gaming, basically moves etc inputed in PC and action results occured, The makers name escapes me but I recall the Games were like 7th Fleet, 5th Eskrada, etc..

C64 with a small foldout table to put map and counters on

ORIGINAL: Cmdrcain

I've not tried install my Civ I, I think that might be stored away on 5 1/4's

It's on 4 disks. If disks are not already corrupted, I recommend you to try game with DOS Box. It really works and you don't need suffer loysy 60 Hz refresh rate! Gotta try it with M.A.X.

Couple games I forgot to mention are MegaMek and MegaMekNET. I have played those over several years and I gotta tell you I don't know any better multiplayer game than those two... and I know plenty MP games [:D]

Original Civilization
X-COM: UFO Defense
Ed Ringler's Sports Time Hockey
Starflight
Seven Cities of Gold
Might and Magic 1
F-19
Gunship
Silent Service
Airborne Ranger

X-com and Wipeout 2097 on the Playstation. I'd just about beaten both when my memory card crashed!

A quick list of some non-wargame titles:

Ultima IV (Whole Ultima Series really but especially IV)
Civilization I
Archon I & II
Syndicate & Syndicate Wars
Sim City I
Lemmings
Seven Cities of Gold
Defender of the Crown
Raid on Bungeling Bay
Populous
Mule
Bard's Tale
Pool of Radiance & the like (AD&D Classics)

Parsec for the TI99/4A (okay, there wasn't hardly any competition by other games)

Loderunner (among others, for the C64)

MOO3 (and don't mock or belittle me for this ... I stand by it)