WSAD

In 91/92 I went back to sea before I had a chance to buy a PC, we were heading out to the Red Sea in support of desert shield, searching ships to enforce U.N. sanctions on Iraq. As a helicopter crew our job was to provide cover for the boarding teams, it was hot as hell with long workdays. We had little contact with home and allot of down time. Our det had a PC in the hangar shop and one of the pilots installed a cool little game called "Scorched Earth", it was a riot! a turn based artillery sim for up to 8 players. You earned money to purchase weapons and could ply v/s the pc or your friends. This game was a much needed and welcome diversion.While working on the helicopter we would take turns on the game. I remember console games were now showing up all over the ship as well and they were a Little ahead of the Pc game wise. Word was the "The Mother of all Games" slogan came after Saddam declared that if the U.S. invaded iraq it would be the mother of all wars....it was not. While deployed, one of the ships did find a cargo vessel smuggling the huge barrels to a super gun Saddam wanted to build, that was pretty cool. Half way through the journey we received a disk in the mail, it was a "shareware" game from id software, and it changed everything.