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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Killjoy2 on February 28, 2002, 09:16:33 AM
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What's the flight sim that got you hooked? For me it was Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. After mastering the AI I started thinking, "wouldn't this be great against real people?"
Then I started reading about Confirmed Kill, but did not have the computing where-with-all to jump in until Warbirds.
I call for a SWOTL Arena.
Found a picture of the cover
(http://www.mytownemall.com/Swotl021.jpeg)
Just pattern it after the original with flight plans and objectives only with real people. (heheh - he said "real people")
(http://www.mytownemall.com/flyingpig1.jpg)
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Microprose MiG Alley Ace, Commodore 64 - 1984.
(http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/an19/mig_alley1.jpg)
Microprose F-19 Stealth Fighter, Commodore 64 - 1988
(http://pcgot.free.fr/usaf/appareils/f-19_microprose.jpg)
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Loong Time Agooo:
ZX Spectrum - TOMAHAWK
ZX Spectrum - Dambusters
AMIGA - CAP (vector graphics extremely fast!!)
AMIGA - Birds Of Prey (tons of airplanes to fly, multiplayer support!)
AMIGA - Fighter Bomber (few fighterbombers, nice terrain + Inflight refueling!)
AMIGA - Flight Of The Intruder (Vietnam, cooperative multiplayer F-4 and A-6)
AMIGA - Knights Of The Sky (WW1, multiplayer over serial)
AMIGA - Turbo RAKETTI (god I miss this game...)
AMIGA - Armageddon (im not sure about the name but it was multiplatfor sim, with multiplayer support, it was in the future and player had huge research and development teams at hand, underground factories you copuld fly helicopters, fighters, bombers, drive hovercrafts, tanks... agains AI enemy.... it was pretty fast, excellent graphics and stuff...)
AMIGA - Gunship 2000
Prolly all... :)
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"F15" circa 86, then a few years off till 92 or so when someone showed me Red Baron and then the Dynamix Aces series arrived.
Never had a PC at home to fly AW online then (too much $$$ to boot) nor Confiremd Kill turned WB's - even though I'd had each of them on my work PC back then. But my sentiment was about the same; the AI sucked and I wanted to fly against my friends and coworkers :)
Westy
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BoB the lucasarts one
soon to be followed by
Red Baron
AOP
Falcon3
online..
FLyin circus +)
SKurj
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SubLogic Flight Simulator....on a TRS-80 Model I -- with 16K of RAM.
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I have an almost new copy of SWOTL on my desk at home... 3.5 floppies, manual, shipping box. I'll bring it with me to the Con this year...
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F-15 on an apple in the mid 1980s, Falcon1 and Their Finest Hour on a PC took it a step farther and then Red Baron Set a standard that was not surpassed until I got into AW around 1993/94.
The game that got me full-fledged into computer gaming has to be Empire, the forerunner of the Civilization style strategy game. I can still remember my first 18-hour gaming day: "Wow, I'm getting a bit tired, it must be midnight. WHAT! 4:30 in the MORNING!"
Charon
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I got Aces of the Pacific and the SVGA Airwarrior Box on the same day. (The day after I got my first desktop) in 1993. I'd dinked around with a horrible Line-graphic titled "Top-Gun" but it was the AOP/Airwarrior combo that sold me forever. Stupid GEnie bills, thank god I was in the Navy, or I would have spent my rent money on that damn game.
-Sikboy
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LHX back in 1990. You can still DL the demo believe it or not. I like flying the Osprey Tilt Rotor.
Was also the first game I think where A pilot could get wounded and die.
Also of course Wing COmmander
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(http://www.hitechcreations.com/images/frntpg.gif)
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First flight sim :
Microprose F-19 Stealth Fighter (Commodore 64) 1988
F16-FIGHTER PILOT (amiga) 1989-90
Tornado 1993 (ibm-pc)
I also played SWOTL about that time.
EF2000/Falcon
and then not until 1998 I flied online in CFS1, moved to Fighter ace and 2 years ago i started here and have stayed here :)
airguard
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CHUCKY YEAGERS AIR COMBAT!!!!!!! Loved being a M-15 killing flights of 262's...lol Oh and I rem the scenerio where your facing a Mig Ace somewhere...
xBAT
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was a thread like this awhile ago, some HTC crew even chimed in, anybody know how far back BBS search goes?
kid
aha found it
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17680
& the thread before it
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17677
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I miss my Amiga.
sniff, sniff :(
F.
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Sandman,
OMG, I was SOOO addicted to F-19. THAT was the one that got me hooked. That was prolly one of the most interesting and intense flightsims I've ever played. Felt like a cross between flying a plane and commanding a uboat(stealth attack).
I'd give anything for a modern remake of that game.
RB(original) was the next obsession with a little ChuckYeager thrown in for good measure.
Ahhh the memories....
Wab
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Originally posted by popeye
SubLogic Flight Simulator....on a TRS-80 Model I -- with 16K of RAM.
Heh heh. Been there, done that. Sure made you appreciate the Microsoft version when it came out.
First real combat game, though, was LucasArts' Battlehawks 1942, followed by BoB1940, SWOTL and the rest.
- oldman
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B17 Bomber for Intellivision :)
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F-15 Strike Eagle on a C64. Loved that game. Later on got hooked on Fighter Duel for the Amiga.
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Originally posted by SUPERFLY
B17 Bomber for Intellivision :)
Oh my God, I remember that game... My friends and I still imitate the funky-ass speech from that game to this day. "Watch for flak!", "Bandits... 12 o'clock".... rofl.
cmorris
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Originally posted by SUPERFLY
B17 Bomber for Intellivision :)
You mean Baysaveanetane Baaawmber!
I spent many an hour on that one :) It was actually a good sim for the time....
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Not too many SWOTL here or in the earlier threads.
VWE001, you will need a 286 to run it on if you take it to the convention. Any chance you could post some screen shots from SWOTL?
I was actually serious about a SWOTL arena with missions. Of course this is in the future after AH 1.10 or so.
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Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain on my Atari 520 STfm.
It had Spitfires in it, that was enough to make me buy it.:D
Originally posted by Furious:
I miss my Amiga.
sniff, sniff :(
I have an Atari 1040 STe sitting right behind me. I can plug it in anytime I get nostalgic.:p
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Atari - Barnstorming :)
SOB
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Aces of Europe and Aces of the Pacific
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SWOTL !!!!, wooohooo, I loved it :D
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Originally posted by SUPERFLY
B17 Bomber for Intellivision :)
THAT's what it was!
That was the one I was thinking about in one of those older threads. What a blast :)
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Originally posted by AKWabbit
Sandman,
OMG, I was SOOO addicted to F-19. THAT was the one that got me hooked. That was prolly one of the most interesting and intense flightsims I've ever played. Felt like a cross between flying a plane and commanding a uboat(stealth attack).
I'd give anything for a modern remake of that game.
Ahhh the memories....
Wab
Hehe... yeah... I also played it on a 286 PC. No mouse, no stick, limited sound but beeps and clicks. Was quite intensive to fly an entire mission at 75 feet off the ground.
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Defender :)
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Originally, the best I could do was the "Combat" game cartridge that came with the Atari 2600.
No one could beat me in the air games on that: biplanes with machine guns in profile looping vertically through clouds or jets in planview turnfighting with guided missiles through clouds.
Later, my first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 (ZX81 for you European types). I couldn't afford to get their flight sim, so I used a mixture of BASIC and machine code to make my own. Later I got theirs, but still liked mine better.
My second computer was a Timex Sinclair 2068 (Sinclair Spectrum). For that one I got Fighter Pilot (F-15 sim) and Tomahawk (Apache sim). Those would be my first decent sims.
I still have the Atari 2600, Timex 1000, and Timex 2068. All still work. The cassette went bad for the 1000 flight sim (it was a copy maded from a friend's cassette), but I still have all the others I mentioned.
But the best I ever had prior to getting this computer is the Atari Lynx handheld games with the "Warbirds" WWI air combat simulator. It is up to 4-way free for all with each plane having different colored markings. They are color with 16 bit/16 MHz (really fast for the time even compared to most pcs). I have two complete systems with 2 Warbirds cartridges. The only other cartridge I ever got was the Steel Talons attack helo game, but it wasn't multiplayer :( This game is still plenty of fun and the graphics are pretty impressive for old-style 2d. It got banned on my submarine because people got so excited and noisy when they were playing that they were waking up other people trying to sleep.
(http://helios.acomp.usf.edu/~slflores/Warbirds.jpg)
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Loved SWOTL. and before that it was Their Finest Hour, and Battle Hawks , which was the very first Lucas Films Flight Sim. But before those it was of course F-15 Strike Eagle, F19 Stealth Fighter, and Mig Alley Ace, all by Microprose, and all on my C-64. My very first flight sim was also by Microprose, it was called Hellcat Ace. I played it on my first computer an Atari 800, this would have been about 1984 or 85, the funny thing was it had a cassette drive and took about 20 mins to load. I could actaully go out and mow the front lawn while I waited for the sim to load. Twenty minutes for a light blue sky, dark blue water, and all yellow airplanes.
I used to dream about playing against other people on modems, back in the 80's. We've come a long way fellas. ;)
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Back in 1986 or so, MicroProse Gunship on the C64 was the first sim I can remember getting hooked on. It was the first sim I'd seen with 3d terrain. The ZSU-20 usually ended my sorties for me. :D
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I got hooked on SWOTL. Played the game for a few months before I figured out how to use the time compression feature.
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aces of the pacific! high five moose!
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Lets see.. can't remember it's name now.. on the c64 way back.. then it was F19, SWOTL, Aces of the Pacific, Falcon3, RB, FC(w00t damn I still miss this one), RB2/3D.. and the list goes on.. Hooked BAD.. LOL
Heh, I used to use F3 as a screensaver of sorts.. turn on instant action/autopilot.. I'd leave and come back the thing was still owning the sky's 3 hours later LOL
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First got hooked on "Their Finest Hour"...
Discovered "Aces over Europe" and "Aces of the Pacific"...
Religiously played "SWOTL" (still have box)...
AOL "Air Warrior" introdced me to online flying...
AW2 and AW3 kept me going... kinda...
"WarBirds" caused me to quit...
"European Air War" reminded me of the fun...
"Aces High" brought me back...
Neat story huh? :)
Mazz
<-TFC->
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C64 had Spitfire 40 and after that Dambusters.
The first PC sim I played was Falcon 1.0 which had one of the first H2H option!
Oh those days when a simple square pixel gave wings to imagination..*BEEP!
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SWOTL and F19 for me! I took 2 days off work when I got SWOTL and played for 40 of 48 hours. :D
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SubLogic "Jet" was my first simulation. Delving back into my memory, some other early simulations that come to mind include the original Falcon CGA and then there was LucasArts' Battlehawks and BoB and the Dynamix Aces series. Falcon 3 is still the king in my book though.
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1942 BattleHawks
on a 286
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Udie, does this sound familiar? (http://members.tripod.com/vulcanjedi/sounds/b17.wav) :D
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Originally posted by Elysian
Oh my God, I remember that game... My friends and I still imitate the funky-ass speech from that game to this day. "Watch for flak!", "Bandits... 12 o'clock".... rofl.
cmorris
Just incase anyone actually wants to play this game again on their PC you can download it for free at http://www.intellivisionlives.com they also have a free Intellivision emulator there. Enjoy!
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Anyone else remember the 1980 Avalon Hill game B1 Bomber?