Re: OT: How old are you ?
I'm 51 and Viet Nam vet, too (slaps dbt on the shoulders).
Cut my teeth on an old game called Tactics II by Avalon Hill when I was about 10 or 11. Afther that, moved to Blietzkrieg by the same company.
I was 19 and drafted into the army, where, after a series of tests, given a job in computers and assigned to ASA (an old intel org).
Computers changed my life (DUH!) and been with them ever since.
Games were sad in the early days of PCs so I stayed busy with PBM games: Starweb, Illuminati, Spiral Galaxy, CTF 2184 (still playing to this day), Criime, and others.
First real game to keep me occupied on the PC was Empire II. THEN came MOO. Played and played and played. Beat it everyway to sunrise using every race on highest setting. Same thing with MOO2. But the game never really had a good way to play with others.
Then came SE4. Learned to play well enough to thump all the AI at highest settings till it got boring. That's when I ventured to SE4 PBEM. And, then to PBW. After all, beating humans is what it's all about.
So, there ya go!
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