What are up to?

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Theseus
I was born in 1963, so I was a child in middle class America during Vietnam and the height of the Cold War. The closest thing we had to a geo-political teaching tool was the game Risk, which taught large-scale CHANCE.

I'm only a year older and grew up playing a variety of strategy boardgames (produced by Avalon Hill and SPI) as well as miniatures. Finding opponents wasn't easy so PC games were a godsend. My first computer strategy game was Empire back in the 70's. I played my first strategy boardgame in 1967 at the age of 5 (I still cannot remember how I first got introduced to it).

[Theseus]

Well, you are correct of course, strategy games were around, for some reason we didn't play them. We moved when I was 12, and I got introduced by new friends to Diplomacy. Now THAT'S a great game.

/me thinks, hmmm, reminds me of something around here...

[Elias]

who hasnt palyed risk. even when I was just a samll boy I plalyed risk and axis and allies I rember playing the orignal command & conquer in by basement with my friends I now dominate everyone at the newer Commnd and conquer generals the orignal c&c was a classic and one of the best games ever made in my opnion and it gave birth to many other great games but none which can top the orignal.

[Elias]

for you people who did play C&C didnt you love orcas? not to mention mammoth tanks!

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Theseus
Well, you are correct of course, strategy games were around, for some reason we didn't play them. We moved when I was 12, and I got introduced by new friends to Diplomacy. No THAT'S a great game.

Never played Diplomacy but always wanted to. My group banned it because of all the fights breaking out during the game.
I think one of my earliest boardgames was Tactics II, followed by the first edition of Third Reich.

[aneeshm]

My advice :-

Start reading . I mean , really , really reading . Then bug EVERYONE with questions about history . And don't forget , after the other person has answered , state your views in great , almost graphic , detail . And say this is just a withdrawal symptom , it'll pass , nothing to worry about . Keep it up for a month .

OK , so I'm not serious .

[Elias]

Good I idea then my parents will think its like a drug and think im addicted and send me to an phsycologist

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Elias
Good I idea then my parents will think its like a drug and think im addicted and send me to an phsycologist

That will only make your parents look foolish. Go for it.

[Alex]

Originally posted by iSuck@CivIII


Mohandas Gandhi married when he was 13 years old.

DL dance!

[Dis]

hey they moved this thread from Civ3-general.

Well I already got my +1

[bongo]

Help, am I becoming an OT-poster?

[connorkimbro]

and at least when you drive to work you have a car and money in you wallet unlike me.

Hey, once upon a time we were all where you are now. being a kid is preperation for being an adult. sure we all (most of us) may have a car and money in our wallet, but we didn't get those things by playing computer games, we got them by working hard for them.

sure, you're parents seem to have gone a little strict with this newest restriction, so respond to it by proving that you are responsible enough to have your privledges, and maintain good grades at the same time.

dammit, i'm turning into my father. it's scaring me, so i'll stop now. lol

good luck

[Datajack Franit]

I did cut off my own privileges after getting a severe eye infection because of playing too much- actually I'm enjoying renting european movies at local Blockbuster

[Elias]

European Movies?

[Pekka]

You have it good, don't worry. If you were my child and tried to question my ultimate authority, even in your sleep (I'm very good at sensing vibes, so I'd know if rebelling was even unconscious), you'd lose your HUMAN RIGHTS and be introduced to a place I like to call 'the pit'.
Food privilidges gone. Everything.. GONE *snaps fingers* like that. I expect and demand a lot, but then again I give a lot too. Would you like to be my son?