What Was the First Computer Wargame You Played?

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:50 am

At the age of 6 in 1979 I started playing tabletop wargames. WRG Napoleonics was where it started and then Grand Manner. Moved on the WRG 6th Edition ancients and then to DBM. Played lots of other periods to but not to any depth or detail.

Ritterkreuz · Post by **Ritterkreuz** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:55 am

iainmcneil wrote:At the age of 6 in 1979 I started playing tabletop wargames.

Anybody ever heard of Avalon Hill?
Like "Russian Front"?

lucke689 · Post by **lucke689** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:16 am

I played a lot of Avalon Hill war games... Midway, Stalingrad, Tactics 2, D-day. WOW, that was such a long time ago.

huertgenwald · Post by **huertgenwald** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 12:43 pm

Panzer General from SSI.

brettz123 · Post by **brettz123** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:26 pm

First wargame I think was Sword of Aragon (SSI) but first game ever was Wizardry I (SirTech). Loved those old games. Still play Sword of Aragon once in a while.

bebro · Post by **bebro** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:34 pm

I played computer games first on the C64 of my older brother. Don't remember whether we had any strategy games that time, but the first game I played that had to do with war was "Gunship".

Atomhund · Post by **Atomhund** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:37 pm

Battle Isle on my Amiga 500. Was that game known outside Germany?

VPaulus · Post by **VPaulus** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:07 pm

Atomhund wrote:Battle Isle on my Amiga 500. Was that game known outside Germany?

Of course. Like I've said, I've loved playing Blue Byte's "Histoy line".

Atomhund · Post by **Atomhund** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:15 pm

VPaulus wrote:
Atomhund wrote:Battle Isle on my Amiga 500. Was that game known outside Germany?
Of course. Like I've said, I've loved playing Blue Byte's "Histoy line".

Yeah, that was great as well, I remember the manual as one of the biggest and heaviest of all the games I had.

Oracle1990 · Post by **Oracle1990** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:20 pm

I am not sure which war-game I played first.

Either Steel Phanters

or

Panzer General

--O--

Rood · Post by **Rood** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:38 pm

Must have been V for Victory: D-Day in 1991.

MartyWard · Post by **MartyWard** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:51 pm

It was a long time ago but I think the first one was Southern Command by SSI.

billmv44 · Post by **billmv44** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:13 pm

Empire
The Lost Admiral
Tank Platoon
F-19 Stealth Fighter
Red Storm Rising ( a fun sub simulator loosely based on the Tom Clancy book of the same name)
Second Front
Clash of Steel
and then Panzer General

ElIndio · Post by **ElIndio** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:27 pm

Errrm does Ikari Warriors (coin-op) in about 1986 count...?

First proper PC strategy game would have been Sudden Strike in around 2001.

I did own a Commodore Amiga back in the 90's but didn't play much more on it other than Kick Off 2, Speedball 2 and the absolute classic Xenon 2 with the incredible "Bomb the Bass" soundtrack, for 1989/90 that game was groundbreaking and way ahead of its time!

DownriverRick · Post by **DownriverRick** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:28 pm

When I picked up my first home computer back in 1982 (an Atari 400), the first games I purchased were the four Avalon Hill Microcomputer Division games. Those were North Atlantic Convoy Raider (search for the Bismarck), The Midway Campaign, B-1 Nuclear Bomber and Nukewar. All were written in Basic and were pretty simple. About the same time, Atari released Eastern Front by Chris Crawford. This game was outstanding for the time and very much like the board wargames that I was used to playing.

OmegaMan1 · Post by **OmegaMan1** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:31 pm

Anybody ever heard of Avalon Hill? Like "Russian Front"?

Growing up, I lived a few miles away from the company's headquarters in Baltimore. I think in my teens I must have bought 30-40 AH games. In fact, I got a job there in their graphics department from '97-'98, right before they were sold to Hasbro. Probably the most fun job I've worked.

MartyWard · Post by **MartyWard** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:51 pm

dshaw62197 wrote:
Anybody ever heard of Avalon Hill? Like "Russian Front"?
Growing up, I lived a few miles away from the company's headquarters in Baltimore. I think in my teens I must have bought 30-40 AH games. In fact, I got a job there in their graphics department from '97-'98, right before they were sold to Hasbro. Probably the most fun job I've worked.

When they were on Read Street?

nikivdd · Post by **nikivdd** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:22 pm

Ghengis Khan by KOEI...nights i played that one

http://www.old-games.com/download/5269/gengkhis-khan-1

OmegaMan1 · Post by **OmegaMan1** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:27 pm

When they were on Read Street?

Hi Marty, I started playing AH games in the early '80s, so by that time they were at the Harford Road location. That was also where I briefly worked for them.

b52pilot1 · Post by **b52pilot1** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:42 pm

Sounds like I'm just like a lot of other folks in here. I played a lot of Avalon Hill board games (I seem to remember Victory in the Pacific and War at Sea) as well as Risk, Axis & Allies, Fortress USA (a VERY cool game), Shogun, and of course...Stratego. But the first computer wargame was the original Panzer General. I remember calling in sick just to play a few extra rounds...sad, I know.