OT - What was your first TBS/War game?

[Gryphin]

In this order:
Empire (on XT with CGA Graphics)
Cive I
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Civ II
Empire Deluxe
Star Emmpires III
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Was playing ED and SE III 20 to 30 hours a week when they became 5X games. (eXwife).

Star Empires IV
and now
Empire Deluxe Internet Edition
www.killerbeesoftware.com
I now play this as much as 30 hours a week. Being able to mod the graphics, sounds, and adjust the number of pixles per square makes it a very good game for my vision. Bonus! I get replys to my questions directly from the programer withing 24 hours.
My next addiction will be
Empire Deluxe Enhanced Edition which hopeful will be out this summer.

[ January 26, 2004, 11:40: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

maybe my first one was civ 1...at least, my early strategy on my first game, which, for some reason, i can still remember, was ignorant enough for it to have been my first game. i built city's right beside each other.

then there was an alpha-numeric display star trek shareware adventure game that had strategy elements...

anyone get the feeling i can't really remember?

[Phoenix-D]

Perfect General 2, probably.

[Wardad]

Cyber Empires by SSI for PC.

I think it went by other names on other systems. Maybe Steel Empires?

[RabidFan]

I take it the titles are restricted to computer games...?

If so, I'm an Atari ST man...(or my dad was), so I would say

Breach
or
Empire

[Voidhawk]

Ahh! Breach! Wasn't that the Omnitrends game that was part of their "Interlocking Game System" or something? It was like a series of games that worked together (or separately, if you didn't have them all). If it's the same one I remember, Breach worked with the game called Rules of Engagement. You could disable and board enemy ships in Rules, and the game would automatically switch to Breach if you had it installed so you could carry out tactical squad maneuvers inside the enemy ship. WAY cool.

I could almost swear I used to play that on my old 386 PC, though. I might be thinking of one of the sequels...

edit: Yeah, I just looked it up on Underdogs. Rules of Engagement 2 and Breach 3 are the ones I was thinking of. Man, they just don't make 'em like that anymore.

[ January 26, 2004, 18:39: Message edited by: Voidhawk ]

[Puke]

Originally posted by Voidhawk:
Ahh! Breach!

Oh. My. God. I LOVED that game! I played Breach 1 and Breach 3 to DEATH! I had totally forgotten about it, until now. No, they dont make them like that anymore, XCOM came close, but just wasnt the same. I liked the variety of objectives available, such as insert or extract, hold objectives, retrieve items, etc.

I had NO IDEA that it integrated with a larger scale game. I feel robbed that I didnt get to play it that way.

That is one of the earliest and best TB wargames I have played, and probably the best squad based shooter. During the same era, I was playing a 4x space game called Celestial Ceasars on the ST. Prior to that, there was MULE on the Atari 400 (upgraded to 8K!), and that was probably the first. unless you want to count Whumpus Hunter, which loaded off a tape.

So many great old games, that would be so easy to recreate and expand on. So much effort wasted on crap that is expected to have market appeal.