OT-What was your first computer simulation

[crsutton]

Epyx's "Sub Battle" for my Leading Edge PC.. 20MB hard drive. Got so addicted that my wife threatened marriage counselling. She finally game up with that idea and resigned herself to her fate.

[Footslogger]

Decision in the Desert by Microprose C64 (1985)

Wing Commander II by Origin IBM 386 (1991)

[Encircled]

Arnhem on the Spectrum 48k. Used to play it on hotseat with a mate, until we worked out that by massing the allied artillery, the Germans could never win

[rustysi]

Don't recall its name, but it was a carrier battle game based on early Pacific war. Midway, Coral Sea, and a couple other scenarios. Maybe Santa Cruz, and Eastern Solomns? I think it was an SSI publication.

[HansBolter]

Aces of the Pacific with the 1946 expansion module:

http://www.sierragamers.com/aces-of-the-pacific

Plying the F8 Bearcat was awesome!

[stretch]

ORIGINAL: rustysi

Don't recall its name, but it was a carrier battle game based on early Pacific war. Midway, Coral Sea, and a couple other scenarios. Maybe Santa Cruz, and Eastern Solomns? I think it was an SSI publication.

Also my first:

[nashvillen]

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)

[KenchiSulla]

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eosVhMLr1A

[LoBaron]

ORIGINAL: Cannonfodder

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eosVhMLr1A

Some fond memories of this one.

But I think the first 'sim' I ever played was Elite on my C64. After that MS Flight Simulator on a 286.

[Skyros]

ORIGINAL: nashvillen

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)

Same played it at Tufts university when left in my older brothers care.

[IdahoNYer]

Computer Ambush by SSI

bought a computer to play it!

[apbarog]

Was either subLOGIC's Flight Simulator FS1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubLOGIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvfJ60gIf0

or Computer Bismarck by SSI, both on an Apple II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Bismarck

[geofflambert]

On Gorn mine was called Humanoid Invaders. Every time we shot a humanoid down, it made a sound like Woody Woodpecker.

[geofflambert]

If you don't know who Woody Woodpecker was, look here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukDs7wScLUI

[Lowpe]

Some kind of hybrid board game and computer game (on the C64) that loaded on a cassette player. I think I bought two: one on the France 1940 and the other on the Bismarck. I think...

[patrickl]

Microprose Task Force 1942. Enuff said.[&o]

[rustysi]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

On Gorn mine was called Humanoid Invaders. Every time we shot a humanoid down, it made a sound like Woody Woodpecker.

Hey Gorn, baby picture?[:D]

[joey]

SCRAM followed by Tigers in the Snow. Both were on a cassette tape. I was so happy once floppy disks were invented. It made game play so much easier.
The first ones I had on floppy was North Atlantic 1986 and USAAF.

[Mike Solli]

I played that one too. Found it by accident.

ORIGINAL: nashvillen

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)

[crsutton]

Yep, "Sub Battle" made me get my first color monitor. EGA three colors. But it was "Battle Hawks 1942" that drove me to get a full color VGA monitor. The games were already driving my hardware choices.