I did some paper pen stuff before I had a decent computer (had a 286 with no HD but two low density double sided disk drives and a monochrome monitor and 640k memory! woohoo) though maybe I'm not being fair since I did play lots of early games off the disk
. On the computer I started with SE2 in 1995 off of a Shareware CD with a new Win95 Pentium 100mhz computerwith 16 RAM blah blah(woohoo). Then SE3. Then SE4. And lots of stuff like MOO2, Stars!, Pax Imperia, EotFS and many others.
Look forward to MOO3 and Stars! Supernova Genesis.
All the games have their strong points and their weak points. Moo2 was good... but the combat system was flawed what with the shoot first never recieve return fire thing going on.
I just want to see what the future has in store. Hopefully someone will get the genius idea of combining MOO, SE and Stars! with all their best components into one united game front as these three IMNSHO(Not So Humble Opinion) are by far the best of these types of games.