Az
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Mine was Warcraft II
Your first strategy game
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GenghisK
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Pff... What a question. Civ of course. On Macintosh. Didn't have choice. It was one of the 10 Mac games available in 1994
FYI Warcraft 1 & 2 are more tactic games than strategy games (micromanagement vs macromanagement). Somebody didn't understand?
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FYI Warcraft 1 & 2 are more tactic games than strategy games (micromanagement vs macromanagement). Somebody didn't understand?
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Az
Emperor
Hey it's ok man...
Maybe this is not a top question but I was just wondering...
Not every body had the chance to have CIVILISATION as their first st.game...
I liked your definition of strategy games and I agree with you. Many people (like me in this case) though tend to call Strategy Games the wrong games...
Maybe this is not a top question but I was just wondering...
Not every body had the chance to have CIVILISATION as their first st.game...
I liked your definition of strategy games and I agree with you. Many people (like me in this case) though tend to call Strategy Games the wrong games...
Mindfields
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Let's see, i think my first strategy game was 'megalomania'. But it could also pirates or something. It was long ago on an amiga computer
Alcibiaties of Athenae
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On a computer, or just a strategy game?
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My first Civ-like game was called "King".
I played it once in 1982 on an Intel "Isis" microprocessor development system. Never seen it since.
The idea of King was that you had to manage a small state for 7 years, planting so many crops, taxing so much money etc. After 7 years you might get re-elected. I seem to remember the goal was simply to stay in power for as long as possible. I managed 19 years.
But it got me hooked. I was looking for something like that for years and years before I found Civ.
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I played it once in 1982 on an Intel "Isis" microprocessor development system. Never seen it since.
The idea of King was that you had to manage a small state for 7 years, planting so many crops, taxing so much money etc. After 7 years you might get re-elected. I seem to remember the goal was simply to stay in power for as long as possible. I managed 19 years.
But it got me hooked. I was looking for something like that for years and years before I found Civ.
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GenghisK
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Don't worry, it' all right
That's a crime, not to play Civ as the 1st strategy game...
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drake
Bring it
A nintendo game called "Shingen the Ruler"
lots of fun
lots of fun
TimTheEnchanter
I...am...an Enchanter!
Hey! That's the same game that got me! My brother-in-law worked at HP and let me "computer-sit" one of their desktop computers for a couple weeks in 1980 or '81 I think. I've always wanted to have something like that game... but never bothered to look. Finally I got Civ last year.
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Håkan Eriksson
Commander of the Swedes.
I think my first one were the classic board game: RISK!
We have had that game in the family sice forever it seems. Atlest all the time I have lived.
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We have had that game in the family sice forever it seems. Atlest all the time I have lived.
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GenghisK
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Hey wait a minute, I remember. Civ was NOT my 1st strat game ever. It was Peter Molyneux' Populous. On PC. That's it. Quite addictive too. And it had already a direct-link multiplayer option.
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Hell-Raiser
Warlord
Red alert was the first one for me!
It ruled!
doesn't this thread belong in @all other games? or off-topic????
but any how RED ALTER FOREVER!
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It ruled!
doesn't this thread belong in @all other games? or off-topic????
but any how RED ALTER FOREVER!
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He who commands the past Conquers the future
He who conquers the past commands the future
-Kain!
Flatlander Fox
Armed Cultural Consultant
Tactics II by Avalon Hill.
But I hated it, and begged my uncle to let me play War at Sea with him. After that, my addiction to strat games was confirmed. I still play Panzer Leader & Blitz, and am an absolute "Diplomacy" junkie. Then Civ came along and changed it all.
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But I hated it, and begged my uncle to let me play War at Sea with him. After that, my addiction to strat games was confirmed. I still play Panzer Leader & Blitz, and am an absolute "Diplomacy" junkie. Then Civ came along and changed it all.
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BlueMonday
Can I Kick It?
Civ 1 was my first.
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Az
Emperor
I didn't know what I was doing when I wrote that my first was Warcraft II. Firstly it's not a real strategy game as GenghisK said. H?kan Ericson reminded me that it was Risk. I first played that with my father at the age of 9.
Ok, ok, some may say it's too much based on luck but it is still a str.game.
Hey H?kan I'm just realising that THIS was your #1000 post everybody was waiting for!
Thank for choosing my topic to say your Last Words !
Tough many think you'll come back...
Ok, ok, some may say it's too much based on luck but it is still a str.game.
Hey H?kan I'm just realising that THIS was your #1000 post everybody was waiting for!
Tough many think you'll come back...
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Chieftain
My first was Civ1, in '92.
If you don't consider Simcity of course.
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If you don't consider Simcity of course.
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shadowdale
CFC Drunkard
Hmmm my first strategy game was probably Civ1, but I'm not sure. I got a bunch of games at more or less the same time, and there were some good games among them:
Civ 1
Centurion
Pirates
Megalomania
and some other stuff!!!
But I know that Dune2 was the first real time strategy game I ever played!!!
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Civ 1
Centurion
Pirates
Megalomania
and some other stuff!!!
But I know that Dune2 was the first real time strategy game I ever played!!!
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Håkan Eriksson, Stormerne, vladmir_illych_lenin, Cunobelin Of Hippo, vanillacube.
Andu Indorin
Retired Druid
Chess and Risk (which probably shouldn't count)
Then AH's Blitzkrieg and PanzerBlitz!
Then AH's Blitzkrieg and PanzerBlitz!
Loaf Warden
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I'd say chess counts. It's a strategy game. It's probably my first, then.
(Well, I suppose you could go WAAAAY back to the mid-1980s and say checkers might have been my first strategy game, such as it is. Hm. That's a tough question, actually.)
(Well, I suppose you could go WAAAAY back to the mid-1980s and say checkers might have been my first strategy game, such as it is. Hm. That's a tough question, actually.)
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