Blast from the past

[Flyboy]

Was going through some old files and had the covers of these clipped

[Snaggle]

Mouse Pad:

[Klaiber]

Very cool!

Have great memories of those games.

[Ludwig]

SWOTL.... I can hear the music in my head. That was the first real computer based game I played. I still have my code wheel.... didn't have the heart to throw it away. 

[Razwald]

I recall having the Red Baron issue. 

I remember I would read Computer Gaming World in the search of the next game I was going to blow my allowance on.

[Ludwig]

I was hooked when I first was introduced to SWOTL.  Then MicroProse "Aces of the Pacific came out and I bought it to run on my buddies 386 (he had SWOTL) and he said... man... I don't think that is going to run on this machine, I don't have the memory for it. I thought it was akin to Nintendo.... you bought it, you plugged it in and it worked. 

HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH....    So... the guy I was flying with at the time lead off the conversation that night with "MAN.... the AA credit union makes it TOO EASY to get money. I was talking with  XXXX and he said... just go in and tell them you want $3,000 for a dirt bike and they will give it to you."  So... I went in and said I wanted $3,000 for a computer and she said...  ok, just a minute. She busied herself around the office and came back about 3 minutes later and handed me a check for $3,000 and said sign here, this is what we take ouf of your check each month, thanks for coming in.  SO... I got one of those 10,000 page COMPUTER SHOPPER magazines that weighed about 12 lbs and picked out a Dx 486/33 with the CAD upgrade (from 14" to 15" monitor) and twice the RAM and it was there in a week. I did everything I was supposed to do... and installed Aces of the Pacific and BLRRRPPPP....   it didn't run. I was PISSED.  I called the salesman and he said... OH MAN...   did we get  you QEMM for that? I said... what is that?? HE said .... don't worry, I will make you a copy of mine and over night it to you and you will have it first thing in the morning. He did... and I installed QEMM and it ran like a spotted ape. 

Imagine doing that today...  making a bootleg copy of a memory manager and mailing it out FedEx overnight.