Given the "How old are you?" post showed some people of my generation I wondered if anyone else fell in love with "Lords of Midnight" by Mike Singleton on the ZX Spectrum.


It was a brilliant game with a format that has never really been mimiced.
I even got a spectrum emulator to play it years later on the PC.


As TBS goes it was a simple concept of a 1st person perspective strategy game. You'd start completely on the back foot as you had 4 characters to try to get enough force together to withstand a huge invasion. It used to frighten the life out of me at times. When you'd press next turn and the screen would clear see thousands of enemies in front of you. Hold on they might not be enemies after all... better go check. Argh... there are 1000 soldiers of someone who may be your ally (if you had the right character talk to them) and they are surrounded by 10,000 bad guys. Do you try to salvage their army or just run away.


Mike Singleton tried a couple of other titles but he just kept making the game worse rather than better. Anyway, what was the first TBS game you loved?