Author Topic: Aces of the Pacific (Read 837 times)

Jethro_Bodine · « **on:** October 15, 2005, 01:30:00 AM »

Anyone here ever play Aces of the Pacific back in the day.

That game was my first WWII FS and my second FS all together (1st was the 1st MS FS).

I used to play the crap outa that game when I was like 8 years old or younger (can't remember) but this is what made me fall in love with games like this.

Have you played this game and what was your first WWII FS?

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 15, 2005, 01:55:58 AM »

Sunlogic spitfire simulater at like 8 years old, on an apple 2 plus.

Microprose F-15 game
Then Lucas's Their finast hour.
Secret weapons of the luftwaffe
Red baron
Aces of europe
ACes of the pacific.
Warbirds
AH

Blooz · « **Reply #2 on:** October 15, 2005, 07:02:41 AM »

Never played MS FS. Wanted to but was playing Red Baron 2 and Red Baron 3D at the time and never got around to it.

My first WW2 flight sim was B-17 Bomber for Intellivision.

Not much of a sim really but pretty cool back in 1982.

FOGOLD · « **Reply #3 on:** October 15, 2005, 08:34:16 AM »

MS CFS1
European Air war (Classic)
Janes WWII Fighters - still looks as good as FB!
Il2 etc of course
CFs2 a bit
Tried Rowan's Battle OF Britain. ... never got into it
B17 II The Mighty Eighth ..same prob

Then AH

Charon · « **Reply #4 on:** October 15, 2005, 09:12:31 AM »

Yep played it.

First game was Airfight, which I played on the Plato university online community system sometime around 1978/79 when my stepfather smuggled me in to a University hospital where he had access. It was almost unplayable with what was about a 2 second per frame frame rate. 1960/70s jets, no missiles (as I remember), wire frame graphics and probably a very generic physics model. The first MMOG air combat game, though "massive" is a bit of a stretch. I only saw one or two people up most times I tried it and ended up crashing every time usually due to the horrible fram rate and keyboard controls. Played the Star Trek game Empire, which really was the first MMOG. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_system

My First on the PC was "EGA Falcon" followed by "Their Finsest Hour." Red Baron really took things to the next level.

Charon

FiLtH · « **Reply #5 on:** October 15, 2005, 10:40:27 AM »

My first flight sims were Solo Flight and then Microsofts Flight Sim 5.0. I had just about every flying game after that, that came out. I believe Solo Flight was around 1983. My first fun computer game was for my Vic20, It was called Midway. It was about the battle of Midway naturally, and it required an extra 16kb cartridge to put in the back of it just to play it. I spent hours playing that game.

If I had a dime for every hour spent playing games id be rich. Heck if I spent those hours working Id be rich.

Sox62 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 15, 2005, 12:11:11 PM »

Their finest hour-The Battle of Britain was my first FS.

I remember flying the same mission over and over(the pilot you flew would gain experience),then renaming the file to about ten different names so I'd have a kickass squad.

The Germans never even made the coast after I did that.

FiLtH · « **Reply #7 on:** October 15, 2005, 12:53:47 PM »

I had a thing called Disk Doctor. It would open up the disk to see the language and you could change stuff. I had a game called Wizards Crown. Fantasy game, lotta fun. You got the standard +5 Broadswords, Flaming spears etc. So one day I opened up that disk and figured out where the character info was, and what number or symbol represented what weapon. I ended up having characters with maxed out stats 255 i believe with weapons like a +5 Flaming Frost Great Sword and the like. Was fun monkeying with that.

soda72 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 15, 2005, 01:01:38 PM »

combat (atari 2600)
F-15 Strike Eagle (MicroProse)
F-19 Stealth Fighter (MicroProse, 1988)
1942: The Pacific Air War(MicroProse, 1994)
fighter ops
Red baron 2
War Birds
MS CFS2
Aces High
Il2

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #9 on:** October 15, 2005, 04:24:04 PM »

Had AOP but couldnt get it to run.
Used to play "Their Finest Hour"
Great game and wish AH film viewer was more like that one

uberhun · « **Reply #10 on:** October 15, 2005, 05:51:36 PM »

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Originally posted by Blooz
Never played MS FS. Wanted to but was playing Red Baron 2 and Red Baron 3D at the time and never got around to it.

My first WW2 flight sim was B-17 Bomber for Intellivision.

Not much of a sim really but pretty cool back in 1982.

Intellivision now there was a freaking game
"B 17 BoMbEr" That mechanical voice in the intro:rofl

I wish I still had my Intellivision collectors are paying big$$ for those things now.

Vulcan · « **Reply #11 on:** October 15, 2005, 07:15:50 PM »

Nuthin beat the challenge of a mail run...

FiLtH · « **Reply #12 on:** October 15, 2005, 07:20:16 PM »

Thats the one Vulcan! Bought it in West Gate Mall Abilene Texas

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 15, 2005, 08:51:02 PM »

Whatever version of MSFS was out in 1986? We bought it when we bought our first PC. Had one of those junk PC joysticks that never worked right and I used the keyboard for everything. Stall recovery was fun with the keyboard, eh? Played MSFS off and on until I discovered AWII/AWIII and got hooked on the online combat sim. Tried WB but didnt like it, tried MSCFS and didnt care so much for it, especially hated their online arenas. Course I didnt care much for AH the first time I tried it either, just before AW bit the dust. Took a few years off and tried again, spent about a year getting used to it and was just starting to enjoy myself when they switched to AWII and I got another 6 month break while I waited to upgrade equipment.

Eagler · « **Reply #14 on:** October 15, 2005, 09:24:43 PM »

SWOTL hooked me

actually it was battlehawks 1942

ugraded comp, 1st, to run SWOTL