What was your 1st TBS you ever played?

Cidifer · September 30, 2002, 16:40

What and (if you can remember) when was the 1st time you played a PC TBS game? for me it was colonization, and I want to say this was in the early-mid 90's like 93-94 but I'm not sure anyone know when that game came out? and why didn't they ever make a 2nd one? or did they and I never knew it?

N. Machiavelli · September 30, 2002, 16:45

Civilization I

then Panzer General

Wise Ass · September 30, 2002, 16:45

THis topic will most likely be moved,

However my first TBS experience wass the Demo for Imperialism however it was discontinued by this point and the 2nd one I didn't like enough to buy...

Now I an find neither

zeh · September 30, 2002, 16:52

I'm kind of new on TBS, compared with you, because my first one was Civ2. Since I played it, I become fanatic about strategy games.
CTP 1 and 2 with its new graphic system was excellent, but after I realize this is not all in a game.
SMAC with its very good wonder movies, border system and stuff make it my favorite game for a relative long time.
Now I'm here, and I think I'll stand here for awhile.

WarpStorm · September 30, 2002, 17:00

I'll say Lords of Conquest (C64), but there was probably something even older that I'm just forgetting. Maybe some old SSI war game. Maybe it was the first Reach For The Stars! (early '80s), probably. As I fire up the Way Back Machine, I'll say it was RFTS that gave me the 4x bug.

Bella Hella · September 30, 2002, 17:03

i'm pretty new at TBS, too. i played heroes of might and magic 3 at a friends' house, pretty soon after it came out. he gave me his copy of HOMM2 and i took it home.

Inverse Icarus · September 30, 2002, 17:07

civ 1. w00p.

WarpStorm · September 30, 2002, 17:10

kids

Purple · September 30, 2002, 17:11

It would have to be Othello, I think, but that's probably not what you meant.

I played a game called Balance of Power, by Chris Crawford, which came out in 1986. It was pale by today's standards, but did show the way for global strategic games.

FNBrown · September 30, 2002, 17:13

Anybody play any of the TBS games on the old BBS's ?(we're talking pre-internet here)

I don't remember the names of them, but I do recall a galactic trading game I was quite addicted to.

sabrewolf · September 30, 2002, 17:34

on pc it was civ1 or colonisation - i don't know what came first.
from 1982 on (sinclair spectrum zx81 (only 16kBytes RAM, imagine that!!)) there was something like a TBS-game, i just don't remember the name

Cidifer · September 30, 2002, 18:03

Quote:

It would have to be Othello, I think, but that's probably not what you meant.

Are you talking about that board game that's played with black and white pieces? if you are then no that isn't what I ment as that's not a PC game (even if it was a PC version of it it's still a board game). Otherwise I've never heard of it but I think I remember that being the name of that game we had in our 4th grade class, and i don't know if I ever finished that a game.

Tuberski · September 30, 2002, 18:07

M.U.L.E.

Early 80's.

loinburger · September 30, 2002, 18:23

Either Civ 1 or Heirs to the Throne, whichever came out first. (Oil Barons and Scorched Earth don't count.)

Zopperoni · September 30, 2002, 18:28

Civ2

I'm not the biggest TBS fan in the world.

Immortal Wombat · September 30, 2002, 18:30

chess

Cidifer · September 30, 2002, 18:34

again that's not really a PC TBS, I don't know why people choose to ignore that word but if they want to come off as not being able to read that's their problem

Jon Shafer · September 30, 2002, 18:48

Panzer General!

Still one of my favorite TBS games.

Tuberski · September 30, 2002, 18:49

After M.U.L.E. would be Empire, which really got me interested in take-over-the-world games.

MattyBoy · September 30, 2002, 18:54

Warlords 1, then Civ 1

Immortal Wombat · September 30, 2002, 18:56

Quote:

Originally posted by Cidifer
again that's not really a PC TBS, I don't know why people choose to ignore that word but if they want to come off as not being able to read that's their problem

I did read it, and then I realised that the first PC TBS game I played really was a DOS version of Battle Chess.

WarpStorm · September 30, 2002, 19:10

Oh, I forgot about M.U.L.E.

coryl · September 30, 2002, 19:12

Reach for the Stars. I've been a sucker for TBS ever since.

ChrisiusMaximus · September 30, 2002, 19:17

Civ 1 of course,I loved Imperialism 2(more than Imp1)but one of my all time favourites has to be Colonization.

Tuberski · September 30, 2002, 19:43

Also, Kind of a TBS, Archon was awesome!

King_Xerces · September 30, 2002, 19:46

My first TBS was Civ3.......

my second was MOO2,

Those are the only TBS games I've ever played. If I can find either SMAC, or Civ2, I'll give em a go.

My first strategy game was sim city........ many many years ago. BUt that doesnt count

Sonic · September 30, 2002, 20:03

Imperialism for me, just after it was released. I really liked it, probably because it was my first TBS. Later I played Civ2 and didn't liked it, then I've got Birth of Federation and liked it very much, later I've got Civ3 and also liked it very much and my fifth and last TBS up to now was CtP2 which I didn't liked. Now I am thinking about getting SMAC.

ixnay · September 30, 2002, 20:08

Civ1 at a friend's house. The first one I bought was probably Civ2.

asleepathewheel · September 30, 2002, 20:19

Civ1, Dos version

Case · September 30, 2002, 20:20

Civ 1 then Panzer General