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#41:  Author: AkiLocation: Warsaw, Poland PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:06 pm
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MY first wargame was "Mein Panzer"

#42:  Author: king_tiger_tankLocation: the Band and State of Kansas PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:15 pm
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depends on what we're talking about, if it is video games, then Call of Duty. If its anything then its the lego wars i did as a kid. Rolling Eyes

#43:  Author: southern_land PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:38 am
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Technically speaking it was stealth fighter (I think that's what it was called) on Amiga 500 It required the massive space of three floppies!!!!!! Having said that the game play was better than some more modern games.

...followed by Janes ATF and Janes Fleet command on PC

#44:  Author: bambam887Location: Belgium PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:30 am
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Boardgame:
    1 Chess Very Happy
    2 Risk

PC:



#45:  Author: PolemarchosLocation: Polemarchopolis PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:43 pm
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southern_land wrote:
Technically speaking it was stealth fighter (I think that's what it was called) on Amiga 500 It required the massive space of three floppies!!!!!! Having said that the game play was better than some more modern games.

...followed by Janes ATF and Janes Fleet command on PC


cool i have this game also, still in the original box...
F-117A Nighthawk is the name of the game

#46:  Author: sample PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:46 pm
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panzer general I

#47:  Author: Nembo PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:18 am
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Risk

#48: hmm Author: AT_Stalky PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:01 am
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Borde game, big "risk style" bord games 180x90cm,

Computer: Kampfgruppe.. in the mid 80th...

Stalky



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#49:  Author: MassivattackLocation: St Priest (France) PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:50 pm
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First : Battleship and Playmobil Laughing
So later Desertstrike and Battleground Ardenne (Bulge)

#50:  Author: tripwireLocation: Florida - USA PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:30 pm
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Civil War boardgame that my cousin talked me into playing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_%28AH_game%29

Eastern Front (1941) by Chris Crawford on the Atari 800 ..... !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ef1941expert2.png
http://www3.sympatico.ca/maury/other_stuff/eastern_front.html

#51:  Author: Pzt_KamiLocation: IRAN PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:31 pm
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mooxe wrote:
Actually I think Defender of the Crown was really my 1st wargame.
Love ya mooxe , It was for me too Smile
I don't remember the first wargame I played ,But I'm sure "Defender of the Crown" in Commodor 64 was the first RTS I played. But the next RTS game which drew me to the RTS world was "Dune II" by westwood ,It was awesome at the time Smile

#52:  Author: Studs PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:33 pm
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Hi..
My first wargames was boardgames from avelon hill..
title as squad leader.war in ther pacific ect ect..
the first pc-wargames was dune 2 followed by aoe and cc3..great games...

:sweede

#53:  Author: Badger-Bag PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:05 am
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I would be very surprised if any of us western types (Around my age, it occurs to me to add, 42 now Wink ), had not actually played "Battleships" as their first wargame.

I played that first when we (my twin and I) were 7 years old, at least that early, because there is a photo around somewhere, of us laying on the floor beside a game, with "Tyger" the cat in the photo, and she passed into cat heaven when I was 7.

#54:  Author: Pzt_CoyoteLocation: Zwolle, The Netherlands PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:23 pm
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In that case my first wargame must have been going into the bush with more kids from my neighbourhood, with guns made of PVC pipe and lots of tape "...TATATATA ...you are dead!!!" "No way, I shot you first!!!" Till we got bored with that and learned to roll paper arrows for those PVC pipes and we started harrassing cyclists Laughing Man we were masters of the ambush and hasty retreat back than Very Happy

For the PC I think it is Airborne Ranger on the 386, very cool game, you would load out your character with all kinds of weapons and ammo, also you could load out 3 ammo bags with goodies.
Than the mission started, you would fly over the map with a plane, dropping your 3 ammo bags behind enemy lines and at the end you would jump yourself.
You than had to get a mission done, like blowing stuff up things like that.
Second must be Retaliator, a very old flight sim for YF22 and YF23

#55:  Author: Badger-Bag PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:19 pm
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Kids these days don't know HOW to play outside, all their games have to be on the computor . . . .umm . . . Wink

All kiwi blokes my age, used to play war outside, with Toi Toi fronds as spears. This goes back to way before europeans came to our Islands. The other name for them is Prince of Wales Feathers. They grow on a bush, have a long (about 2 mtrs for a long one) tough stalk about broomhandle thickness, and fluffy feathers on one end, the end of the stalk that hits you is toughened with a knd of war-head. You just snap them off the bush, and bingo, armed spear-chuckers. Maori boys used them for war training, and we used to find a small hill, and split into two groups, the smaller group got to hold the hill top against the assault team coming up from below.

I was going to provide a link, but too long, put Toi Toi into google image.

Kids today wouldn't play toi toi wars, too soft.

#56:  Author: DarkKnightLocation: Where the sea breeze sways the palm trees... PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:32 am
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Well in computer games I think it was Air Warrior III.

Of course I'd been playing all those great boardgames before that tho... at least the ones I could get. But the real original like Badger-Bag says is playing OUTSIDE or outside/inside with your friends or with toy soldiers the little green army men or GI Joe (I am very proud of my GI Joe collection... the plastic 6-inch ones, not the 12" collectible doll ones).

*Sigh* I'm really not old at all (you can date Air Warrior III) but already it seems like kids just don't know how to be kids anymore. God forbid they should actually go outside and use their imaginations. Freakin' 5-year olds are already plugged into video games, because either they whined enough and the parents were weak or the parents were still weak and decided to get them cool stuff they didn't have so they can relive their lost childhood (you can do that outside ya know).
Then there's the whole 'playing war isn't politically correct' thing, of which I know many subscribers... yet they let the kids watch TV and we all know the violence that's on TV nowadays.

Ok no more soapbox for now. I'm sounding twice my age, haha.

!!!Here's to you and your buds saving the world from terrorists (the cooperative mailman) with state-of-the-art military technology (toy guns that looked cool) and special forces tactics (hiding in the bushes)!!! Smile

#57:  Author: oPossum PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:56 am
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The first RTS was AOE2, but the first real wargames I played were CC5 and Airborne Assaut: Highwa to the Reich.

#58:  Author: Ivan_Zaitzev PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:01 am
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The firsr Strategy game i have playesd was a demo of Close Combat 1. The Demo was in a CD that bring a Magazine called CD Zone (a magazin from spain) i still have the cd and the magazine, the year was 1996.

#59:  Author: GMoney PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:09 am
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-battleship

-Lincoln Logs and tiny rubber army guys. we would set up on the floor around the tables and chairs, maybe 80 rubber soldiers each and fling, throw, richochet the lincoln logs trying to knock off the enemy. last with a man standing won

besides chess and checkers first real board war game was Avalon Hill Dday.

best hand held on tv was by Intelivison which had a cool and challeging Sea Battle

#60:  Author: southern_land PostPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:25 pm
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Badger-Bag wrote:
Kids these days don't know HOW to play outside, all their games have to be on the computor . . . .umm . . . Wink

All kiwi blokes my age, used to play war outside, with Toi Toi fronds as spears. This goes back to way before europeans came to our Islands. The other name for them is Prince of Wales Feathers. They grow on a bush, have a long (about 2 mtrs for a long one) tough stalk about broomhandle thickness, and fluffy feathers on one end, the end of the stalk that hits you is toughened with a knd of war-head. You just snap them off the bush, and bingo, armed spear-chuckers. Maori boys used them for war training, and we used to find a small hill, and split into two groups, the smaller group got to hold the hill top against the assault team coming up from below.

I was going to provide a link, but too long, put Toi Toi into google image.

Kids today wouldn't play toi toi wars, too soft.


Bracken fern was another good in us King country boys. Made awesome arrows. I still have a scar on my right thumb where i was using an axe to sharpen them to fire an the older kid across the road and missed. Doh!!!



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