OT - What was your first TBS/War game?

[Voidhawk]

Holy crow! I made a topic! I'm a posting madman! Somebody stop me before I hurt myself!

Ok all you old fuddy duds out there, time to reminisce a little. Oh, and of course young whippersnappers are encouraged to participate too.

What was the very first strategy or war game you found yourself hopelessly addicted to? I'm talking strictly electronic gaming here, on any platform. I'm sure many of us started on the tabletop (myself included), but those don't count!

My first taste of gaming crack was a little gem by SSI called Sixgun Shootout for the Commodore 64. In a nutshell, it was a tactical squad-level game sort of like X-Com, only with cowboys and indians instead of marines and aliens. There were a bunch of different scenarios to play, many of them based on actual events from that time period in American history. Man, there was nothing like taking on the Clanton gang at the OK Corral with the Earps and Doc Holliday or trading shots as Blondie from behind an overturned saloon table with Angel Eyes from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. You could also design your own custom cowboy, assign his attributes, weapon skills (lots of weapons to choose from), and of course label him with a suitably notorious nickname of your choosing. If someone ever re-made this game, I'd fall to my knees and commence to worship said someone.

I enjoyed playing MULE before I discovered Sixgun, but Sixgun was the one that really sucked me into the TBS genre. Mostly because I've always been an avid fan of American wild west lore, I imagine. I shudder to think of the countless hours I dumped into that game.

So, now it's your turn. You don't have to necessarily put the first strategy game you ever played, I'm looking for the first one that really hooked you! The one that is at least partly to blame for your SEIV addiction today.

[JLS]

Carriers at War for the C64
Ultima

I also enjoyed that weastern shoot out game.

How about Gettysburg, ROTK their are so many...

[ January 24, 2004, 16:52: Message edited by: JLS ]

[Fyron]

The first one I ever owned was probably Colonization. I do not recall the first I played, but it would be one of Colonization, Ascendency or Civilization II, at a friend's or cousin's house.

[capnq]

Reach for the Stars, 3rd Edition, on an Amiga 500.

[ January 24, 2004, 17:48: Message edited by: capnq ]

[Captain Kwok]

Empire was my first TBS.

[Geckomlis]

Empire.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i think the one i first played was Centurion: Defender of rome on an Amiga 500. it was also the first strategy game where i just kept on playing it. i loved going into the arena, fighting a big cat, getting my guy behind his sheild and letting the big cat take futile wacks while the crowds approval just kept on going up and up an up before i let loose. great way to keep rome happy.

second one that got me was a little shareware space game with 26 planets, all letters, called Conquest, also for the A500. it had some deep tactics for that time. and i suppose it's more to blame for my playing SE then Centurion.

[Loser]

Empire, on an XT (late on the scene for Empire, of course).

[Fyron]

You people are old.

[Atrocities]

They make TB war games? OMG when did this start?

(Rebellion, BOTF)