OT - What was your first TBS/War game?

PvK · #1 January 28th, 2004, 01:04 AM

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Originally posted by Wardad:

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Originally posted by PvK:
First? Probably Trek, on mainframe computers. Oh no! My photon torpedoes caused a stellar nova chain reaction again!

PvK

OMG, your right!
I played Star Trek, written in basic, on the offline training IC test system. The IBM PC wasn't born yet.

Yeah, it's a pretty interesting game, too, particularly the later Versions where people had modded in a lot of additional weirdness that could be discovered. Lose the Enterprise but escape, and get to take over the obsolete ship USS Faerie Queen - I remember doing that on purpose, to see what it was like. Or, push the damaged warp engines too far, enter a time warp and get sent back in time to an old game position the game secretly had saved for that purpose. Pretty clever. Oh no - the Klingon super command ship has used its long-range tractor beam to pull me across the galaxy into its sector... Tholians... Romulans...

PvK

Paul1980au · #2 January 28th, 2004, 01:08 AM

Interesting a game that learns how you play and presents a bigger challange the more games you play - could that be put into SEIV i wonder or SE5

Puke · #3 January 29th, 2004, 12:24 AM

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
I think that was A Mind Forever Voyaging.

Yes, it was! Thank you, sir!

Kamog · #4 January 29th, 2004, 09:11 AM

I played that old Star Trek game, too, but it was on the Commodore 64. That was a fun game. The program was written in BASIC. You could open the program and edit it if you wanted.

One time I shot a photon torpedo at a star base to see what would happen. The base was destroyed, and I got a message saying I was going to be court martialed. Another time, I had destroyed all the Klingon ships except for one, and I had no energy or torpedoes left, so I used the self-destruct to blow up the quadrant. Unfortunately, somehow the Klingons still won.

freduk · #5 January 29th, 2004, 05:14 PM

Dune II, although I doubt this is the tactical level that is meant in this topic.
Then, Civilization: call to power.
Yep, I didnt have a computer for 5 years or so

dmm · #6 January 29th, 2004, 07:14 PM

Hey everyone! Looooooong time, no see!

My first TBS was a game on Intelivision that was a lot like Civilization. Anyone else remember that?

Loser · #7 January 29th, 2004, 08:09 PM

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Originally posted by dmm:
Hey everyone! Looooooong time, no see!

My first TBS was a game on Intelivision that was a lot like Civilization. Anyone else remember that?

Utopia?