WSAD

While my interest was peaked in 84, a computer was not a common item by any means. Once I enlisted in the Navy, the next 4 years held little time for games.
I attended Aircrew candidates school, Rescue swimmer school and then went on for anti-submarine warfare training as a helicopter crewman.
I mention this because it had a huge impact on my gaming taste. From 84 to 88 I was either in training or at sea. I operated SONAR, RADAR, FLIR, and a M-60 door gun. I literally went around the world, tracking Soviet subs, Iranian patrol boats and pirates in the South China Sea and Africa. (hmm... those are still the bad guys 20 years later as well.) Top that off with jumping from a low flying helicopter into the ocean. I wasn't playing games, but it felt like I was living them.
Fortunately, I wasn't causing death and destruction as I did in my future game play, its more fun in-game vice real life anyway.