>>>>>>>>I wasn't very good - compared to others around me - at these games, but I loved to play them. I did well at the Star Wars game - wireframe, but very realistic - though I've never met anyone else who even heard of it.
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>>>>>>>Me! I've heard of that Star Wars game. There was also a wireframe Star Trek that I liked. Of course there was Space War.
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>>>>>>>BattleZone was one of my favorites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone
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>>>>>>Just remembered how the noises the tank made when someone was locked on to you would realy s**t you! :-)
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>>>>>There was this stupidly addicting game called "Sopwith Camel" I think, that was played on my first Tandy 1000. You flew a plane (wide angle side view only) across the screen and fought another plane. It was very simplistic, but I couldn't stop playing it. Tried to find a pic or link to it, but the ones I found were way more complex. This was like watching a cartoon.
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>>>>Can't be doing with left-to-right games. Only 1st person POV, like Doom, Quake, Duke Nuke 'em. (Remember Wolfenstein! ?)
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>>>>Years ago I used to play old Doom with my wee daughter (3/4) on my knee. Once I tried to get her to bed and she screamed the house down with, repeatedly for c. half an hour "I WANT TO PLAY THE KILLING GAME!"
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>>>My daughter loved Barney the Dinosaur (annoying song purple dinosaur). She watched the show all the time. So my son and I were playing a modded Doom 1 where the monsters were Barney. My daughter comes in to see what we're laughing about and bursts into a shreiking tear-filled fit! Which only made us try to laugh and feel concerned at the same time. :) I don't know if she's over it yet.
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>>LOL
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>>Was that one of those many game WADs you could get, like with extra scenarios, levels, etc.?
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>Yep! ;)

Did you ever tell your son what BFG stood for? (and I don't mean the one that ate "'orrible Snozzcumber")