I remember playing a war game back in the late 60's, maybe early 70's sponsered by an organization out of Phoenix, Arizona called, "Flying Buffalo".
You sent your moves in on a special card along with twenty five cents and they would run it on their computer and send you back the results.
We've come a long way since the $3000 Commador 64 :happy:
Pat
I did some research and discovered that "Flying Buffalo" is still in operation?????
It was actually 1970 or 71 when I was playing their mail game (Nuclear Destruction).
The founder was managing these contests by hand, but once he got enough people involved, he bought a Raytheon 704 minicomputer. His payments were $386 a month over the length of his 8 year contract!!!
His original computer had a 4K memory and when that wasn't enough, he purchased another 4K for $5000!!!
Pat
WOW!!!...a blast from the past! I certainly remember Flying Buffalo.
I hate to admit this, but I still have all of my war board games from the 50's, 60's, 70's & 80's.
Yeah I know...I'm a dinasaur!
Mike/Yossarian :smoke:
Geez, and I thought I was old rememebering my Commodore 128 for $1000.00 and tracking hundreds on inbound Russian missles on Strike Fleet (?)
I'm just a pup
Holy ICBM Batman!
It was Strike Fleet and Wikipedia has way too much info on this game...lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_Fleet