This Date in History: Discuss

[Bison]

I can tell you in 1985 I didn't even own a computer.  I had D&D books and a couple board games making up my total collection of gaming.

[undercovergeek]

C64 - lords of midnight, the hobbit, way of the exploding fist and attack of the mutant camels

[Tuna]

Was playing Empire and Star Trek on Vax 11/780.. lol.. would stay after work on Saturdays... The beginning of the downfall into that ugly disease called Gaming Addiction!

[bayonetbrant]

Playing a couple of mediocre maze-type games on my old 128k beige-box 1st gen Mac, since StratCom and Wizardry and POR and Dark Castle and Ancient Art of War were all still a few years away.
But using MacPaint to make my own D&D counters, and later, a lot of orbats for wargames.
Also used a lot of MacWrite for my own RPG rules, variants, expansions, etc.

When the BattleTech bug bit about 18 months later, I had a LOT of orbats, unit histories, backstories for conflicts, etc, on a made-up world that some friends of mine and I used for wargaming.  We basically fought a LOT of sci-fi ground battles without the mechs for those games, and in our actual BattleTech games, had almost no other units on the map other than the mechs.

[Barthheart]

SSI was taking all my money for C64 games. But the best was Computer Ambush! Followed closely by Kampfgruppe.
Many, many hours spent in Ambush rather than doing my university assignments.... 8)

[sandman2575]

Likely was still playing Donkey Kong Jr. on ColecoVision in '85 -- don't think we owned a computer yet. Lots of friends had the venerable Commodore 64 though. Was jealous...

[MengJiao]

I can tell you in 1985 I didn't even own a computer.  I had D&D books and a couple board games making up my total collection of gaming.

  Seems like in 1985 I played an early flight sim and various war games (Ancient Art of War?  Napoleon laughed when he beat you?)  For one space game I think I had to wait til early 1986 and some kind of VGA patch.

[Sir Slash]

Me and the Amiga kicked some serious ass in Kampgruppe and later Might and Magic I. I remember having a tough time deciding which of the 3 games I owned to play. I was working like a Sled Dog, didn't have any money, and didn't give a damn about it. I thought I was the only Wargamer in the whole world. But.... where the hell is my damned Hoverboard I was promised by now?

[WallysWorld]

In 1985, I think I still had a Timex Sinclair and then replaced it with a Commodore 64 a year later. My brother had an Intellivision and I remember playing "Dambusters" a lot on that console.

[IronX]

Dambusters was great - apart from waiting several minutes for the game to load from floppy. But that was life back then. Imagine making a game now centred around a single mission. Still, it entertained us for many hours.

My favourite game from 1985, also on the C64, was Mech Brigade.

[JudgeDredd]

I wasn't playing any games - in October 1985 I was in The Falklands serving Queen and Country.

[undercovergeek]

I wasn't playing any games - in October 1985 I was in The Falklands serving Queen and Country.

i thought you were my age?

[JudgeDredd]

48 me  :(

[Tinkershuffle]

I was trying to form my first two to three word sentences.

[bob48]

Probably playing 'paradroid' or 'Elite' on the C64.