First Wargame

[Gen. Zeitzler]

What was you first Computer Wargame? Mine was EASTERN FRONT by ATARI!! This game was released in 1980 or 1981 I think! It's been so long i can't remember. Can anyone beat that?

[Kuniworth]

I played "Artillery assault on Hitler" by EG Games from 1978.

[Codename Condor]

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[jon_j_rambo]

I remember playing "Stategic Conquest" on my Mac in the late 80's. Then came Strategic Conquest #2.

Also played "Patton vs. Rommel" on Mac.

I played some "Armor Assault" game on Apple II-E, but I forget the exact name.

Now, if you count video games, then it was "Tank" on Atari-1600.

[Yogi]

I can't remember the manufacturer, but it was Gettysburg - made to play on the Apple IIc

I wasn't all that bad, but quite simple if you go back and look at it today. No color, no fancy terrain, just drawings of elevations similar the some of the original board wargames. The "counters" were just a simple soldier or cannon.

Would have been circa about 1981 or so. Came on 5.25 disc.

[Edwin P.]

My first comouter wargame was Eastern Front by Atari; which had mud and snow weather effects, followed by an Ancient Rome era computer Game released by Avalon Hill. The Roman era game was interesting as you got to fight against different barbarian tribes - each had different strengths and weaknesses.

[Mockylock]

Defender of the crown (1987, commodore 64)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defender_of_the_Crown

[Lars]

First ones I ever bought was B-1 Nuclear Bomber and Nukewar by Avalon Hill. 1980.

Everything else before then was pretty much free or you programmed it in yourself.

[Retributar]

Mine was a board-game called KRIEGSPIEL...it had two factional entities...the Black pieces were called 'BLACKBUTTE' and for Red,...i do not recall what they were named!.

Anyway,[it's been many year's so i can't recall much!] for each combat you needed to ROLL the DICE to get your COMBAT-ODDS as well as...select a card from the deck to give you your Final-Result instructions for after Combat,...such as to HOLD-FAST,RETREAT,ADVANCE AFTER COMBAT,Etc.

[Kuniworth]

ANother great computer game is "Grosse Anschlussen 1939-1945" by german company Historical simulations.

[Gen. Zeitzler]

One of my favorite old games was GUADALCANAL CAMPAIGN by Gary Grigsby. Poor Graphics but a thinking man's game. Too bad u couldn't play the Japanese! Around 1981 I bought my first computer, an ATARI 400 at a computer show in Boston MA. I also bought BATTLES FOR NORMANDY there also. Was anyone there? I think it was late summer or fall of that year!

[Gen. Zeitzler]

Now that I think about it a little more The Computer show in Boston might have been in 1982.

[Fubarno]

Like Lars, I played B-1 Bomber and Nuke War by Avalon Hill. My dad bought them, I was in my teens, and I remeber playing this text only games on his projection TV. Sometime in early 80's. We've come a long way....

[Agent Smith]

Harpoon II (Dos 3.6) 5.25" Diskettes.
Biggest A.I Battle: Fighting himem.sys, config.sys & autoexec.bat to squeeze every bit out of 640kB of memory. and Chessmaster

[Don't Shoot Me]

My first computer wargame was SSI's Battle of the Bulge written for the Apple II+ in 1981. It was pretty good for the time. For years after that the Apple II series had all the good games. SSI made a lot of the Apple wargames back then.

[Jon Patrick]

Decision in the Desert, Commodore 64.

I loved the game. Still think about how good the gameplay was.
Of course, I've since played it again and was frustrated with the graphics, but not much has been as much fun and had as much replayability at that game.

SC1 was that type game.
JP

[BRO,JD]

SSI's "Tigers in the Snow" and AH's B-1 Bomber.

It took a long time to load those games from my cassette drive.

[jon_j_rambo]

Was there any Radio Shack TSR-80 games? A.K.A. Trash 80's?