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This was in the news today. Atari's ET is still considered one of the worst computer games ever made....[;)]


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... 00-on-ebay

They raised $37K but the excavation cost $50K

I doubt they will go even; as all the fanboys probably got their cartridge already.

Moreover, I read they built so many, that even before the digging, it was not hard to buy it on Ebay

My first Computer game was Sid Myer's Pirates, first real war game was Warship, followed by an AH tank game and Carrier Strike. Then Pacific War and the rest is history.

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Great Naval Battles

Me too [;)] I wish I could get a DOS boxed version [:(]

My first PC Sim. Actually GNB II. Was an Amiga player at the time, saw GNB II at a local computer store and purchased my very first PC just for this game.

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Star Trek on a teletype machine with a local community college on that yellow teletype paper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(text_game)

Ditto.

But at home "Battle of Midway" on a trash 80 with cassette tape memory. It was always best to CAP with 13 fighters, not 12 or 14 or any other number. Just 13. lol

I had a Korean War game on a tape drive for the C64, and to this day I still miss the Korean War as a war to simulate..
Nothing on the market fits the bill at all.

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I had many of the games mentioned in this thread for that computer; some I played far more than others. "Warship" was one of my favorites; I even created Sunda Strait, Balikpapan and Komandorski scenarios for that game. I never could find "Battlecruiser" though.

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This was in the news today. Atari's ET is still considered one of the worst computer games ever made....[;)]


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... 00-on-ebay

Still better than Desert Bus:

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/desert-bus-the-very-worst-video-game-ever-created

Bill

Carriers at War for the C64.

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This was in the news today. Atari's ET is still considered one of the worst computer games ever made....[;)]


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... 00-on-ebay

Still better than Desert Bus:

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/desert-bus-the-very-worst-video-game-ever-created

Bill

I think "Custer's Revenge" takes the worst ever award.

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ORIGINAL: Lecivius

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

Great Naval Battles

Me too [;)] I wish I could get a DOS boxed version [:(]

My first PC Sim. Actually GNB II. Was an Amiga player at the time, saw GNB II at a local computer store and purchased my very first PC just for this game.

GNB II was a pretty good game. The same scope as UV. I spent a lot of time playing it. Then GNB III came and promised the world but never did work right..

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This was in the news today. Atari's ET is still considered one of the worst computer games ever made....[;)]


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... 00-on-ebay

Still better than Desert Bus:

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/desert-bus-the-very-worst-video-game-ever-created

Bill

That is hilarious. I would expect that from Penn and Teller. Have you ever seen "The Aristocrats?" a movie about the crudest most offensive joke ever told.

Eastern Front on the Atari 800. The AI plotted it's move during
your move so the faster you ended turn the less time the processor
worked on it's solution.

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I had a Korean War game on a tape drive for the C64, and to this day I still miss the Korean War as a war to simulate..
Nothing on the market fits the bill at all.

If I recall correctly, Operational Art of War or another Norm Koger title had some Korean War stuff including perhaps a campaign game.

The first computer simulation I played, a baseball game, was one I wrote in maybe 1971 or 1972. I'm guessing I used Basic or Fortran. I connected to a mainframe computer from home using a phone and an acoustic coupler. The program was "stored" on paper tape which I had to feed into a reader on the dumb terminal (similar to a teletype machine) each time I connected. The only player input was to set lineups or to change the data the program used.

It wasn't until maybe 1987 that I got my own PC. I think the first war game I played was a WWII submarine game but I can't remember much about it. I really haven't played many war games until WITP-AE...nor do I know much about military matters. The only computer game I've played more than briefly, that is before WITP-AE, has been Out Of The Park Baseball.

Crusade in Europe, Silent Service, Gunship and Pirates! All on tape on the C64. Thank the Gods for Microprose in the late 80's

My first game was XOR Nfl challenge, bought the game before I even had a computer. We formed a league, drafted teams and played our games one night a week at a friends uncles computer store. Loved that game!