Eagler put me in a time machine...

[kidcol]

His post about how he got to AH dredged up all kinds of old gaming memories for me & I thought I'd ask two things:

1. What was the first game you can remember playing on a computer?

2. What are your five favorite computer games of all time?

For me:

1. I can remember way, way back playing a game that had no name (I believe we just called it "Weather" on a TRS with a tape drive. You created a weather pattern or something like it & launched it at your opponent's base. Riveting, at the time (sometime in the vague mists of the 70's)

2.Jack Nicklaus Golf - Signature Edition. Had a simple to use, but elegant (for it's time) course designer. With nothing more than a scorecard showing layout & a basic knowledge of the course, I could layout all my favorite local courses in about 2 or 3 hrs per. I don't know how much of my time my friends & I blew playing this game.

You don't know Jack. Hell, I still play this game. Incredible job they did putting it together.

DOOM. It's just gotta rank up there as one of the most addictive games ever.  

Wing Commander. OK, I'm a space-fighter-geek. It had a very closed mission set, but I just loved it   Got the urge to play it again now, but I think I'd hafta dig my ole 486 outta the basement to do it, hehe.

Aces over Europe. OK, I can't recall, but I'm pretty sure the FM's bore no relation to reality. I do recall it being the first WW2 flight sim that made me feel like computers might actually be able to simulate to WW2 flying experience tho, & that was enough.

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breaking my own guidelines, hehe:

honorable mentions:
simcity
jetfighter2
HardBall4/5
Red Baron
Commanche vs Werewolf
Space Quest and/or Leisure Suit Larry (God, that was a lot of wasted time_

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and, of course: WB/FO/AH: I'd separate them, but they've all hooked me on online sim/gaming & each has it's own attributes.

- kidcol2 -
-=NightStalkers=-

[Nath-BDP]

1. First computer game I can remember playing was some kinda golf game in like 1993 or something... the first sim was some Desert Storm stuff where you would fly a F117.

2.

1. Ultima Online before Origin ruined it.

2. Rogue Spear

3. Tribes

4. AW 2

5. AH

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[Ripsnort]

Wow, that means when I first logged onto DOS-AW, its safe to say that  Nath was still drinking out of a tippy-cup...I feel REALLY old now  ...
First computer game I played was a sub game, and it was all text format.

[Igloo]

1. Oils Well & Wolfenstein
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1. Hidden and Dangerous

2. Wing Commander (all of them)

3. Age of Empires series

4. F-117A Stealth Nighthawk (FM is probably the worst ever in a game, but I probably spent thousands of hours playing it).

5. Aces of the Pacific

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"Problems cannot be solved with the same awareness that created them" - Albert Einstein[/i]

[Mickey1992]

1. There was some sort of adventure game on the TRS-80 but I can't think of the name.  What I consider to be the first real computer game that wasn't ASCII based that I remember was Choplifter on an Apple my freshman year in HS.  I was always disappointed my TI99/4A didn't have something like it.

My favs:
1. Wing Commander.  My college GPA reflects this.
2. The old AD&D titles ("Gold Box"?).
3. The first two of the X-Com series.
4. Transport Tycoon.

[Fatty]

Can't remember the name of it, it was similar to space invaders.  And we had to load it up via cassette player (often 3-4 times to get a good load) plugging audio out into the TRS-80. [edit - heh, wonder if Mickey's talking about the same]

Fav's

1 - Aces High (Current time waster)

2 - Early Ultima series, thru like 4 I think (before they started wasting resources on eye candy)

3 - MS Fight Simulator for IBM PC, early 80s some time.  Used to leave it flying cross country while I mowed the lawn  

4 - Half-Life, freshest 3d shooter since DOOM.

5 - Rouge Spear.  Above without superweapons (keep your mods, I don't want em)


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[StSanta]

Dudes, yer so old/young/warped  

Aces of Aces, C64

Commando Libya, C64

Commando, C64

Wings, Amiga 500

Wing Commander, Amiga 500

F/A-18 Interceptor, Amiga 500

Speedball & Supercars, Amiga 500

Civilization & Pirates, Amiga 500

Lotus Turbo Challenge, Amiga 500

Kick Off and Goal (Dino Dini is king)

Won't touch the PC, would be too long a post, other than saying that Wolfenstein 3D blew me away and made me save up for a PC. 'puter games have been an interest of mine since I worked out I didn't have to spend time with people face to face with 'um   .

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9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
 

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[kidcol]

Santa, old?

old?


yep, very old. considering taking up griz on his sale of a C64. hehe


Fatty, before I knew about OL fighter sims, me & a friend used to hook up direct & chase each other around chicago in cessna's on MSFS.  

Thank God we've got guns now, we used to get into big fights about whether we "had a shot", hehe

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[Nath-BDP]

eh? In 1993 I would be 10.

[Dowding]

StSanta - almost all the C64 games you mention were owned by one of my friends, and because my parents couldn't afford to buy me a computer, I'd go round to his house and watch! I thought 'Ace of Aces' was v. cool.

I eventually got a computer of my own - Amstrad CPC and remember playing 'Harrier Attack' on Christmas day aged about 8 y/o.

Favourite Games of all time:

1)Aces High
2)Tie Fighter
3)Monkey Island 1 and 2 (not 3 - very dissapointed)
4)Sam and Max
5)Soldier of Fortune

[Lephturn]

First game I played on a computer...

It was ASCII "graphics" hangman on a Zenith computer that pre-dated the PC.  Although I may have mucked with this old climbing game on a Vic20 first... dunno.

Best games:

1.  Aces High (and it's father WB)
2.  Need For Speed (the series)
3.  Doom
4.  Railway Tycoon
5.  Leisure Suit Larry

I never played flight sims until I found WB.  It changed my entire point of view about multiplayer, it was the first game I ever played online like that and it blew my mind.  AH still does.  Sometimes I remember just how mindblowing it was when I first loaded up WB to think that all of those other planes are REAL PEOPLE who are sitting at their computers all over the world.  How freakin' cool is that?!  It's good to sit back and think about how cool the basics of this game are.

I am in the computer networking industry today because of Doom.  I had zero interest in or knowledge about computers or networking until I saw Doom.  I had played Doom on my folk's computer and was absolutely floored by it.  Then, one day the parent company of the business my parents ran delivered about 4 computers, a server, and Novell network software.  Nobody knew what the hell to do with this stuff, and because we live in Nova Scotia, the "tech support" folks who were supposed to install it all (there were based out of the US) couldn't help.  Somebody had to take it on and I thought, "Holy crap, I hear more than one person at a time can play Doom on a LAN.  I gotta try this!".  I dove in and setup my first LAN just to play Doom. <G>  I'll never forget how cool it was on a Saturday night when I managed to get the network running.  I called a buddy over flipping out because I had Doom running on two machines and... I COULD SEE THE OTHER GUY!  And shoot him!  It was amazing.  Myself and two buds ended up at my folk's office until the sun came up playing Doom.  I now owe my livelihood, the job I love, to that happy day. <G>  I still celebrate it every time I build a network from scratch,  the first thing I do when the network is up and running is fire up a game and "test" it.    Maybe someday I'll even be able to do networking in the gaming industry.  I'm still working toward that goal.

I know some of you young pups (Nath   may not have had the benefit of that amazing revelation, you guys kind of grew up with it.  Maybe reading some of these posts will help you get a bit of a different perspective on AH.  I know my perspective is refreshed by thinking about those experiences to write this post.

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A member of The Flying Pigs  http://www.flyingpigs.com
 

"My P-47 is a pretty good ship, she took a round coming 'cross the Channel last trip.
Just thinking 'bout my baby and lettin' her rip, always got me through so far."
 - Steve Earl

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[kidcol]

Leph, you made me realize that I have only slightly glanced at boxes in the computer store since I started flying online. In the olden days, that was the first thing I would look at in a comp. store. Now I go to the hardware first, then maybe yak with the techs a bit, then peripherals, then, last, I'll look at the box games.

Says a lot about what HT & (gotta say it) IEN & The Rat guys are doing  

- kidcol -

p.s. HT's still the man. As far as I can tell (& yes, I've played the others) he's the guy that pays the most attention to what the OL pilot's are looking for  

[LuckyDay]

 

1. There was some sort of adventure game on the TRS-80 but I can't think of the name.

Was that Hunt the Wumpus?


I remember F18 on the Amiga, when I was in grade school, I remember being impressed by the graphics!  And that you could land upside down on the carrier...



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"What're you going to do, bleed on me?"

[RAM]

1-The Galactic Plage...1985 CPC simple invaders game.

2-Can't put only five...

-Guadalcanal (CPC) Endless hours with this one

-Desert Rats (CPC) same same  

-SWOTL (PC)

-Great Naval Battles (I)

-DOOM

-Gary Grisby's Pacific War

-I.S.S. (international Superstar Soccer...this is a PSX game but with an emulator I can play it in my PC  )

-Falcon4.0 (it only gets better with each RP).

And of course, last but the best so far, Aces High  

There are many others (F15 Strike Eagle series were awesome, the III was incredible) but for an example I think its okay  

[bloom25]

I remember a flight game on the old TRS-80 myself.  After that I kind of took a break from computers until '96.  Then I got a P100 and USN fighters.  After that I played F18, M$ CFS, and M$ Flight Sim '98.  AH is the first flight sim game I played online.

(Maybe I still have that TRS-80 around somewhere.   )



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