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What was your first Matrix game?

Mine was Uncommon Valor. I actually bought it at CompUSA. I had seen rave reviews for it and since Joel Billings of SSI fame was involved I decided to get it. I tried looking for War in the Pacific at CompUSA when it came out but they didn't have it. IIRC that's what led me to the Matrix Games website.

I saw this unkown game called Gary Grigsby's World at War by an obscure company named Matrix games at a big shot store named Best Buy. I've been hooked ever since. 

SPWAW

Grigsby's "Carrier Strike and PacWar" as well as QQP "WWII: battles in the South Pacific" and SSI's "Carrier" series got me hooked into Pacific War style games.

But actually I missed the boat on a few games by a few years due to living down-under. Stores had a virtual monopoly on what could and couldn't be imported. Most stores would hardly ever carry a grog strategy game let alone a Gary Grigsby title. Matrix games is & was virtually still unknown in that part of the world... But I guess my antipodean brethren that I see here now are becoming more prevalent.

If I had known there was UV I would have bought it from Day1. I didn't and it wasn't until years after the release of Witp that I finally stumbled on the game and web site after wanting to get back into PacWar. Bought it the same day with not so much as a twitch about the price... For some reason software in Oz has always been expensive - (I still have game boxes from the 80's with average prices $79-)

Anyway, digital distribution is at least opening up some borders but word of mouth in different forums has started to attract more gamers here; to the Matrix family.

So years later, I've played PBEM's, worked on mods, helped code witptracker and witptracker-ae, become virtual mates with a few guys and now visit the site a bit too much. The new guys coming to the site are full of enthusiasm and are pushing things along well ... so even witp-ae forum burn-out eventually subsides and I feel like testing and playing again.

I've even started programming a "carrier strike" replica which probably will never see the light of day ...

Thanks Matrix and thanks to the forum members.

Cheers

ORIGINAL: Gary Childress
What was your first Matrix game?

The free stuff of course [:D]

SPWAW and War in Russia.

First game I bought from them was Highway to the Reich - been hooked on the Panther Games engine ever since

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

My first was Titans of Steel.

Uncommon Valor picked up for 10$ in a bargain bin. Kinda stuck here since...

Terje

CCMT.

Campaign Series ... but it was from Talonsoft ... so really first from Matrix was Uncommon Valor

Uncommon Valor, picked it up for a fiver in Pissy Wurlde[:D]

Cheers

Jev

my first Matrix game was Massive Assault, later CAW, WitP, EDtBtR, WitP AE...

ORIGINAL: Gary Childress

What was your first Matrix game?

Mine was Uncommon Valor ...

UV was the "gateway drug" to matrix; I bought my copy at Electronics Boutique

WIR (with production [;)]), PACWAR and Steel Panthers as SP2WW2 (when it first appeared on "Thegamers.net" in the late nineties), later of course UV and WITP...
 
Best regards
 
Rainer

Sadly it was Empires In Arms........[:(]

Uncommon Valor.
Loved it.

Since then its invariably been picking the wrong title.
titans of steel, Hornet Leader.
And what was that sci-fi, card based game that was unplayable?

Each time I think its time to depart Matrix forever something manages to grab. GGWAW did.
And now Panzer Corp of course.

Uncommon Valor [8D]

ORIGINAL: sterckxe

ORIGINAL: Gary Childress
What was your first Matrix game?

The free stuff of course [:D]

SPWAW and War in Russia.

First game I bought from them was Highway to the Reich - been hooked on the Panther Games engine ever since

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

Same for me.

Battles in Normandy was mine, if memory serves.

SPWAW of course.

I heard of Matrix because they were giving away Steel Panthers World at War, which I downloaded and played for quite awhile. Their generosity gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling and I've had a spot in my heart for Matrix ever since. How many other PC gaming companies give their games to gamers for free?