Mentioned In Dispatches – Season 7 Ep 12 – Wargaming Evolutions
Your favorite wargaming podcast hosts talk about where they started out in wargaming and how they got where they are today
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/podcast/mentioned-in-dispatches-season-7-ep-12-wargaming-evolutions/
My first wargames (and yes, I was shouting some of this at the podcast):
I think Ambush! was my first one. I bought it at the Dutch Door Hobby Shoppe at Boozer Shopping Center, in Columbia, SC. My mom would often go there for paints and for catering supplies, and I would always browse the RPG section, buying AD&D modules and Dragon magazines. Then I got Ambush!
My next few ones included:
-Air War (by TSR)--although maligned for its intricacy, to a middle schooler who would spend hours and hours alone in his room, I loved the depth and complexity of this game
-Richtofen's War
-NATO
-Midway
-D-Day
-Anzio
-Submarine
-Sixth Fleet
-Gulf Strike
-Hell's Highway
-Tactics II
Then I had a couple of RPG spillovers, including:
-AD&D Battle System
-T:2000's large-scale system in the "Pirates of the Vistula" module
-Star Frontiers' had a space-battle and campaign system
As far as computer wargames:
-First, a shout-out on the Intellivision Sea Battle game mentioned in the podcast. My friend had an Intellivision and wanted to play all kinds of action games, I just wanted to play Sea Battle and ...
-B-17 Bomber
-Then, on my Commodore 64, I had SSI's "Tigers in the Snow." I wasn't even sure what i was doing, but I loved loading it off of my cassette player
-Computer Bismarck
-B-1 Nuclear Bomber (text/DOS game)