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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: toonces3 on May 03, 2007, 07:05:00 PM
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this:
(http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/an19/mig_alley1.jpg)
Mig Alley Ace!
I wonder how many of the players on here remember the 'real' old days when this was the only way to get head to head action.
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Trying really hard to ignore the gay overtone in "Head to head action". Trying really really hard and failing.
-Sp0t
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Well, actually AW started back in '85 as well and that was online...
ack-ack
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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
Well, actually AW started back in '85 as well and that was online...
ack-ack
we had to wait for Al Gore to invent the internet
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My first game was "aces" box game.. no online..but it got me hooked!
999000
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Originally posted by toonces3
this:
(http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/an19/mig_alley1.jpg)
Mig Alley Ace!
I wonder how many of the players on here remember the 'real' old days when this was the only way to get head to head action.
and before Mig Alley there was Spitfire Ace and Hellcat Ace.
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What about Aces Over Europe? I didn't have internet so I have no idea if it was online capable but it was a tremendous game.
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BLUE MAX! 1983 and on the Commodore 64.
http://c64s.com/game/406/blue_max/ (http://c64s.com/game/406/blue_max/)
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Originally posted by Fulmar
we had to wait for Al Gore to invent the internet
No you didn't, many online services like Genie hosted games, Air Warrior being one of them. But I was incorrect on my dates, AW was in '87 not '85 as I previously stated.
ack-ack
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Ace of Aces (http://www.lemon64.com/index.php?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3Fid%3D313)
A Mosquito "simulator" on the Commodore 64. It even attempted clouds.
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I remember spending hours playing the original MS Flight Sim - "not equal" signs for the biplanes - they were always "HOing" you no matter what direction they were coming from. The one line horizon . . . . man we thought we had it good back then! Then I was introduced to Red Baron, and Aces over the Pacific - I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!
What will it be like in another 20 - 30 years?????
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Used to play on the SubLogic version (before Microsoft) of Flight Simulator on the C64. Dad bought the tape cassette version of it before we finally got a disk drive. That was a looooong wait to load the damn thing.
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was there online or one v. one gaming before mig alley ace? Mig Alley Ace was released in 1985 and I remember it being so innovative because you could fight against another human instead of the computer.
Were there earlier multi-player flight sims prior to this?
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Sheesh...got my first air combat sim in 1980. Flying Tigers...a text only game. :)
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Originally posted by thndregg
Used to play on the SubLogic version (before Microsoft) of Flight Simulator on the C64. Dad bought the tape cassette version of it before we finally got a disk drive. That was a looooong wait to load the damn thing.
Ohhhh. First computer was a Commodore Vic 20 with the cassette drive. Had to use leaderless cassette tapes with it. Upgraded to C64 with floppy drive later. My watch has more computing power than that thing did.
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Originally posted by tedrbr
... Upgraded to C64 with floppy drive later...
Now there's a phrase that I had a tough time processing.
LMAO at remembering C64. I played Moon-Mist back then on there. I don't even think there were graphics on that game ~ I think it was entirely typing.
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Originally posted by texasmom
Now there's a phrase that I had a tough time processing.
LMAO at remembering C64. I played Moon-Mist back then on there. I don't even think there were graphics on that game ~ I think it was entirely typing.
A lot of the games for Commodores had no real graphics. There was a Midway Battle game, forget the name, that just had a grid map. A "C" in a grid was a carrier force. An "M" was Midway Island. You detailed your strikes to go out to a particular grid to scout or attack the enemy carriers. You would hear a little sound file play for attacks, but everything else was in the text buffer. Any hits, any misses, any enemy sunk, your losses all came in text only.
I wasted many an hour with that game.
That C-64 was also my first link to online BBS (I remember Modem Over Manhattan, the various Fed busts at the time to the early community --- guess we'd all be terrorists today and sitting in GITMO....) and the Prodigy Network. Eventually got a 286 when they came out, and upgraded to Compuserve and Usenet Groups.
Scary thinking that far back.
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The Dam Busters! (http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/dam-busters)
That was (IIRC) my first flight sim, for C64 with tape recorder :)
Thinking about it..... zOMG!!111!!11!11 I was a toolshedder!!!!!! :eek:
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Originally posted by texasmom
Now there's a phrase that I had a tough time processing.
LMAO at remembering C64. I played Moon-Mist back then on there. I don't even think there were graphics on that game ~ I think it was entirely typing.
How about the ZORK series?
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It is pitch black. you hear a troll in the distance.
>Light Lantern
You see a menacing troll next to you.
>Kill troll
Kill troll with what?
>Kill troll with Lantern
How do you kill a troll with a lantern?
those were the days..... :)
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Originally posted by Karnak
Ace of Aces (http://www.lemon64.com/index.php?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3Fid%3D313)
A Mosquito "simulator" on the Commodore 64. It even attempted clouds.
that game rocked.............yeah I'm old
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Originally posted by Cyg
How about the ZORK series?
>
It is pitch black. you hear a troll in the distance.
>Light Lantern
You see a menacing troll next to you.
>Kill troll
Kill troll with what?
>Kill troll with Lantern
How do you kill a troll with a lantern?
those were the days..... :)
LOLOL! That's it! The game was juuuuust like that too funny.
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Here's my earliest one I think...
Red Baron for the Ti99/4a
(http://www.evg2000.com/graphics/ti/software/redbaronsc3.jpg)
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Most of you children are WAY too young. My first flight sim was a lunar lander I programmed on punch cards and ran on an 8 baud TTY. Enter burn time, thrust percentage, and vector. Press enter, wait for the TTY to print your current alt, velocity vector, etc. The TTY was 35 miles from the computer that ran it, connected through a 110 baud acoustic coupler. This was 1975.
My first graphical flight sim:
(http://www.ahevents.com/fs1_16.gif)
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lol - that looks like something from the old BBC computers. Speaking of which, there was a game called Spitfire.
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You all might enjoy these Game History
Take note around 1977
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.mud.admin/browse_thread/thread/eae8d84910f3576d/bf9373a4841c7434?lnk=st&q=ms+dos+air+warrior+dos+cockpit+art&rnum=15&hl=en#bf9373a4841c7434
http://library.thinkquest.org/C002414/history.html
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My flight games started with ‘Coin Operated Arcade Machines’ (prior to ‘Video Games’). :O
Then moved on to Commodore 64/128 {USAAF / Text only bombing strategy over Europe), followed by offline only ‘Aces series’ (Aces Over Europe; Aces Over the Pacific; Red Baron; etc.).
In the mid 90s, I started looking for online flight games with my 1st online computer.
Over the past 10+ years {and numerous computer upgrades later}, I have dabbled with several On & Off line games (including: Air Warrior; Warbirds 2.0 {until late 2006}; WWII Online, and now I am settling into Aces High). :aok
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You have been eaten by a grue.
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First online Sim I played was Jane's Fighter Anthrology. We had squads and ladders. It was alot of fun at the time. Mid 90's. Love the game.
Hoovers:cool:
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Originally posted by tedrbr
BLUE MAX! 1983 and on the Commodore 64.
http://c64s.com/game/406/blue_max/ (http://c64s.com/game/406/blue_max/)
OH YES.. i was hooked on that. I bet its still fun :aok
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Originally posted by Karnak
Ace of Aces (http://www.lemon64.com/index.php?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3Fid%3D313)
A Mosquito "simulator" on the Commodore 64. It even attempted clouds.
oh yeah this was sweet too. if my memory is correct it had afew bugs that made it lock up tho
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You called?
:D
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Originally posted by toonces3
this:
(http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/an19/mig_alley1.jpg)
Mig Alley Ace!
I wonder how many of the players on here remember the 'real' old days when this was the only way to get head to head action.
Wow. Now that brings some memories!:eek: :D
Falcon
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/BH1942_Zero_in_sight.png)
Battlehawks 1942 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlehawks_1942) on a 286 hooked me in the beginning
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Originally posted by SKJohn
I remember spending hours playing the original MS Flight Sim - "not equal" signs for the biplanes - they were always "HOing" you no matter what direction they were coming from. The one line horizon . . . . man we thought we had it good back then! Then I was introduced to Red Baron, and Aces over the Pacific - I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!
What will it be like in another 20 - 30 years?????
Guess you will senile and the stick will shake a lot, you will be hard to kill!
:rofl
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Chuck Yeager's Air Combat started it all for me when I got my 1st computer in 1994.
1st online flight game was AW III (for a short period).
Then Warbirds & in 2005 added AH.
Been in both since.
:)