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Anyone remember these?
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I often think that there are some games that I am the only person in the world to remember. Possibly the only human being that ever played them. Let me throw a couple out there and see if any of them ring a bell for you.
First cab off the rank is Strategic Command on the Dragon 32. I don’t really remember much about this but I’ll try and give you all the info I have. Firstly, you had to play it with someone else. A rarity back then to have a game that was solely two‐player, no one‐player option. Secondly, it was kind of like Risk, although I haven’t played Risk so I’m only going on what I learnt about Risk from watching Lost. You had a world map and bases on it and you had to take over the bases and then be the king. Or something. That’s it. That’s all I’ve got. It sounds dull and complicated but I remember being obsessed about it when I was nine years old. And that really sums me up as a kid – a geeky nine-year-old playing strategic games in his mum’s bedroom on the black-and-white portable.