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OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:48 pm
by 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.
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 7:03 pm
by Footslogger
Decision in the Desert by Microprose C64 (1985)
Wing Commander II by Origin IBM 386 (1991)
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 7:05 pm
by 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
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 7:08 pm
by 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.
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 7:08 pm
by HansBolter
Aces of the Pacific with the 1946 expansion module:
http://www.sierragamers.com/aces-of-the-pacific
Plying the F8 Bearcat was awesome!
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 7:22 pm
by 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:
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 7:26 pm
by 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)
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 7:36 pm
by KenchiSulla
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 7:55 pm
by LoBaron
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.
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 7:58 pm
by Skyros
Same played it at Tufts university when left in my older brothers care.
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 8:00 pm
by IdahoNYer
Computer Ambush by SSI
bought a computer to play it!
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 8:08 pm
by apbarog
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 8:24 pm
by geofflambert
On Gorn mine was called Humanoid Invaders. Every time we shot a humanoid down, it made a sound like Woody Woodpecker.
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 8:41 pm
by geofflambert
If you don't know who Woody Woodpecker was, look here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukDs7wScLUI
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 8:58 pm
by 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...
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 9:24 pm
by patrickl
Microprose Task Force 1942. Enuff said.[&o]
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 9:26 pm
by 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]
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 9:44 pm
by 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.
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 10:05 pm
by Mike Solli
I played that one too. Found it by accident.
RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 10:13 pm
by 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.