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Apple II - Ultima III and IV - hours, upon hours, upon hours .... upon hours spent as an elementary school kiddo.

Previous to that, Chivalry and Robin Hood on the Vic 20 😀
 
I was restricted to educational games for most of my childhood, so in terms of computer games overall I'd say Logical Journey of the Zoombinis and Oregon Trail II were the two heaviest initial hitters.

For non-educational PC games, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter. Unless you count stuff like pacman and tetris that I'd been playing for years at that point.
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Easy: Civilization. There was a time where every single computer in the Johns Hopkins computer lab had a copy of Civilization on it and at least 2/3 of them were occupied by Civ players.

Civilization led to X-COM which led to my first PC which led to Doom and C&C and so on and so on.
 
Feneant2 said:
You and me both my Bard's Tale brother! We had borrowed the game without the book so we were stuck at the place where it eventually asks you a question to answer from a book for years until we finally figured it out.
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Glad to hear there is another that loved the game. :thumbsup: Did you play the sequels? I never loved them as much as the original, but they had their moments.

KT
 
SunnyD said:
F-19 Stealth Fighter by Microprose, followed by Silent Service 2 and Civilization.
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Did you get all those on a single disc?

I got F-19 Stealth Fighter, Silent Service 2, Civilization, and Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon all on a single disc when my dad bought a Sound Blaster, RAM, and CD-ROM upgrade. Plus Simcity 2000. And that enabled me to also play Doom finally on the computer. Man I was in heaven for ages, those games were real fun to play.

Maybe I should get back into some flight sims... :nostalgia:
 
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this thread makes me yearn for the golden days of pc gaming. remember when sims came with a keyboard overlay? how cool was that?
 
erikistired said:
this thread makes me yearn for the golden days of pc gaming. remember when sims came with a keyboard overlay? how cool was that?
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I still have my x-wing manual somewhere....for when you had to go to random page X to complete a sentence to install the game. I miss the old school copy protection.
 
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