How old are Dom2 players?

Tricon · #1 March 17th, 2004, 06:23 PM

My first pc game experience was probably digger (and I still play it today).
My first real strategy game? Probably The Ancient Art of War by Borderbund (Awesome game, availabe at the Underdogs. The games I played most in the 80's (second half) were probably Digger, Pirates!, Wasteland, Ancient Art of War and Bards Tale 1.
Sigh. Those were the days .... (I could live on a candy bar and a can of coke for two days, needing no sleep and no light, and still geting good grades in school, somehow.)

[ March 17, 2004, 16:24: Message edited by: Tricon ]

Leif_- · #2 March 17th, 2004, 06:28 PM

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Originally posted by Tricon:
The games I played most in the 80's (second half) were probably Digger, Pirates!, Wasteland, Ancient Art of War and Bards Tale 1.

Incidentally, Sid Meier is working on a new Version of Pirates! these days. Might turn out sweet, sweet, sweet - or it might turn out to be "oh, woe for what could have been."

Arryn · #3 March 17th, 2004, 06:32 PM

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Originally posted by Leif_-:
Darned it - I'm too young to be nostalgic!

If most of the games today weren't so crappy you wouldn't *need* to be nostalgic ...

Tricon · #4 March 17th, 2004, 06:36 PM

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Originally posted by Leif_-:
Incidentally, Sid Meier is working on a new Version of Pirates! these days. Might turn out sweet, sweet, sweet - or it might turn out to be "oh, woe for what could have been."

Yup, heard about it. Hoping for the best here!
For those who like the pirate genre and cannot wait, I suggest Port Royale 2 coming out in April (at least in Europe). Right now, it looks even better than Sid Meiers Pirates!

I haven't played Port Royale 1 but they have a very solid fan base.

Sorry for the topic drift.

[ March 17, 2004, 16:37: Message edited by: Tricon ]

Unwise · #5 March 17th, 2004, 06:59 PM

Tough to recall the first computer game I played. Probably "pong".

I think the first strategy game for a computer I can remember playing was "Empire". I can't even find any references to it on Google, but it was a 4-color title. I don't even remember what I was playing it on - either an early IBM PC or an Apple ][, I would suppose.

Edit - Thanks for the pointer to the-underdogs.org, great site. Empires (the Version I first played) was released in 1978. I probably played it in the early 80s sometime. I have some memories of playing the 16-color Version during college around '88, but everything from that time is more-or-less buried in a beer-soaked haze.

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Tricon · #6 March 17th, 2004, 07:34 PM

Another great game, though.

Hozzy · #7 March 18th, 2004, 05:34 AM

Wow... I had some really late nights on my C64, good games, well written, Knights Of Legend - Kings Bounty - The Ultima Series, as for my age I was in collage when most of those titles were out, wish someone would update some of the old classics, before that I was a Atari junky Adventure on the 2600 was one of the frist experiences I had with a strategy type game