Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Wyld45 on August 09, 2008, 03:10:57 AM
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17 years I covered alot of ground playing different military games from the first NES and PS,
to computer games. My first early favorites were "Afterburner" and that very first submarine
game that was made for the first Nintendo console,"Silent Service".
What were some of your first favorite "conventional" war games?
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Well it would have to be Air Warrior, it was the game that got me hooked on WW2 fighter sim's, back when it was free with AOL.
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Combat Flight Simulator #1 #2 and #3. With out those games, I would have never gotten interested in AHII. :aok
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Combat Flight Simulator #1 #2 and #3. With out those games, I would have never gotten interested in AHII. :aok
I still have Combat Flight Simulator WW2 Europe Series, was alot of fun to play back in the day.
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Let's see. I started waaaay back when with some Avalon Hill games (Panzer Leader anyone?) I still have about 15 or so of their games in some boxes somewhere. Then there was B-17 Bomber for Intellivision (yes, I'm that old). Then came Harpoon for the PC, followed by F-117 Stealth Fighter. The Falcon series was awesome :rock Warbirds introduced me to the world of online flight sims. Oh yeah, Fighter Duel was in there somewhere too. That CD is sitting right here in the CD holder on my desk. I really need to clean that thing out.
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I played all the MS combat flight sims and a little bit of IL2 but then I got into FPS games like Rogue Spear or Call of Duty, Battlefield series and so on. Then I started looked around for a WW2 flight sim again and found this one. Played around with some of Jane's games for awhile and the game Lock-on as well.
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I think my first was the old 1995 Super Nintendo game 'Lock On' :rock
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There are other games besides AH11? :eek:
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Janes "Fighters Anthology" .....
Played that until my friend Mike "MadDog" Duran from The Grave Diggers got me hooked on AirWarror....
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Silent Service (Amiga/1985)
Falcon 3.0 (1991)
Air Warrior (DOS/1993 on AOL/CRIS)
Aces over Europe/Pacific
Aces of the Deep
EF2000
Fighter Duel
Su-27
Warbirds (1995-1999)
Falcon 4.0
M/S Close Combat Series
Panzer Commander
AH1
Warbirds 200x
IL-2 Series
AH2
LOMAC
Falcon 4.0 Allied Force
And although it's not a "war game" per say, MS Flight Simulator 3.0-X
:aok
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There are other games besides AH11? :eek:
My thoughts precisely....
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Like Auger, I'm an old board wargame vet too. Avalon Hill and SPI wargames were where much of my money went back in the late 70's and 80's.
My first video game favorite was B-17 Bomber on Intellivision.
I got a Commadore 64 in 1985 and played F-15 Strike Eagle and Mig Alley Ace until I got a real PC.
Microprose became my favorite computer game company. Owned many of their titles.
In the mid 80's to mid 90's I was heavy into miniatures.
B-17 Flying Fortress came next in 1992 or so.
First online air combat was Red Baron 3D. Anybody remember a SPAD VII pilot named Poulet LeGrande? Yup, that was me.
Not finding any WW1 air sims to replace Red Baron I stumbled onto Aces High.
Today my gaming is limited to a couple computer titles and the rare board game.
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Old Avalon Hill games PANZERBLITZ & B-17 FLYING FORTRESS - By Mail.
Am an old SILENT SERVICE hand myself. Killer game.
WARBIRDS
DAWN OF ACES
Then came over to AH
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Anyone remember Gato? 1983 or so, had a blast with it.
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Falcon (from jump street)
Air Warrior
Warbirds when it was Warbirds....
...and here from the moment this went beta.
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Did all the Avalon Hill games in the early 80s.
In 1986 got my C-64.
Hellcat Ace
F-15 Strike Eagle
F117 Stealth Fighter.
About 1988 I got my first PC
Battlehawks 1942
Their Finest Hour
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
Then got into the Dynamix Games
Red Baron
Aces of the Pacific
Aces over Europe
Also the updated
F-15 Strike Eagle and Falcon 3.0
About 1992 I did Red Baron online follwed closely by Air Warrior DOS
1997 I made the move to Warbirds, then Aces High in 2001.
Sheesh that's a lot of hours looking at a monitor......... :huh
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Played so many but the one that really stands out as something i could play today even is Red Storm Rising for the commodore 64. The machine still works but the tapes started going sour after a while.
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First flight sim i had was Jane's WWII Fighters, greatest game I ever played, with AH2 coming in second, back in 1998. I also got Talonsoft's Enemy Engaged: Apache Havoc. I also have Talonsoft's 12' Oclock High: Bombing the Reich. And I have Hidden and Dangerous, the original game also from Talonsoft. The Deluxe version is also downloadable on the net, PM if any of you guys have this and want to play online. :aok
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Played so many but the one that really stands out as something i could play today even is Red Storm Rising for the commodore 64. The machine still works but the tapes started going sour after a while.
Agreed, that game was a very immersive. (pun intended)
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Before ANY of those
I had this
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