Friday 2010-10-08 Dev. update and Discussion

[Tempest123]

Originally Posted by pupaxx

the coolest game I played in nineties was 'Tornado'..do you remember?
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..times where the graphics did not reach, hard manuals contributed to the game immersion!!!
..nineties...I still had my hair

Ciao

This game rocked, it had an awesome manual and mission builder, some good training missions too, I remember turning on the terrain following radar and zipping across Iraq was pretty fun. The sequels "Apache" and "Hind" were also quite good.

[Insuber]

Does anybody remember "Jet Fighter" by Velocity, late 80's/early 90's? Or the great EVGA space game, Elite by Gametek ...

[C_G]

I think so. Jet Fighter came in a funky box that wasn't square and was centered around a scenario that Mexico got taken over by communists and invades California, iirc.... 'twas cool, especially carrier landing the F-18.
A friend lent it to me and wanted it back after a week so I didn't get very far with it.

[Spudkopf]

I have a "BIG" box full of nearly all the titles mentioned thus far (and then some) and I can't count the number of times that I have been tempted to simply dump them all, but somehow something just stops me.

IMO both Lucas and Dynamix had some of the best manuals.

I'm such a sad case that I purchased both BOB-TFH and Falcon (1.0) two months before I even owned a PC, if I remember correctly I also pre-ordered SWOTL as soon as it was announced, then I think I had to wait about a year or more before it arrived apparently the development time blew out

Not to mention the fortune I had to spend on magazines just see the one or two screen shots of any upcoming Sim’s I was interested in.

[_RAAF_Stupot]

Originally Posted by Tempest123

This game rocked, it had an awesome manual and mission builder, some good training missions too, I remember turning on the terrain following radar and zipping across Iraq was pretty fun. The sequels "Apache" and "Hind" were also quite good.

I can still remember the one and only air-to-air kill I got in Tornado! (in the F3) Seriously though it was best as an air-ground simulator - the mission builder was absolutely fantastic, being able to schedule your AI planes on time on target, all attacking from different directions. I can remember the trill of the RWR receiver. I can also remember trying to get a customised autoexec.bat file and config.sys file that would let me load the programme in base memory - that wasn't so much fun. The manual was good as well, some 200-odd pages long.

Another old-school sim I used to fly was EF-2000. Took me ages to learn how to do the aerial refueling!

[pupaxx]

Originally Posted by _RAAF_Stupot

I can still remember the one and only air-to-air kill I got in Tornado! (in the F3) Seriously though it was best as an air-ground simulator - the mission builder was absolutely fantastic, being able to schedule your AI planes on time on target, all attacking from different directions. I can remember the trill of the RWR receiver. I can also remember trying to get a customised autoexec.bat file and config.sys file that would let me load the programme in base memory - that wasn't so much fun. The manual was good as well, some 200-odd pages long.

Another old-school sim I used to fly was EF-2000. Took me ages to learn how to do the aerial refueling!

+10 several hours spent with ef-2000 ..I remember uneventfull CAP mission flown for 1 hour or more or interception at very low altitude.. great game ,
I found a link about classic combat simulators
http://www.listal.com/list/evolution...ght-simulators
it impressed me cause i spent my youth on most of them since I was 13, how many hours subtracted to homeworks!!
In this list are missing two top games: Aces of pacific and aces over europe!!!great days... but gretest are to come with SOW
Ciao

[Richie]

One thing I was thinking about was menu music. Although I'm not much of a fan I found out that Wings Of Prey has an awesome main theme.


Yes We Are....ACES!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeDoxHGLpCU

[robday]

Originally Posted by Richie

One thing I was thinking about was menu music.

The first thing I do with any game after I have installed it, no matter what genre, is to go to the options screen and turn the music OFF. It's usually rubbish and I find that it detracts from the game.

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by robday

The first thing I do with any game after I have installed it, no matter what genre, is to go to the options screen and turn the music OFF. It's usually rubbish and I find that it detracts from the game.

Well personally I used to jump in the jeeps in Battlefield 'Nam and turn on the radio and just listen to the '60's soundtrack It is hard to criticize a sound track that included Creedence, The Troggs, Canned Heat Deep Purple and The Kinks

I also found the soundtracks that came with the various "Need for Speed Underground" titles pretty good listening.

A good soundtrack can help a game immensely. In terms of WWII a mixture of Vera Lynn, Glenn Miller, Marlene Dietrich and similar songs in other languages ("Lili Marleen" in German was a huge hit amongst Afrika Corp troops for example) may not be played every time you fly but would add a lot to the atmosphere of the game.

[Sturm_Williger]

I agree that I almost always turn the music off, but one game I remember the music was epic - UFO ( the very first one ). The music was just so eerie, it's the only game I know where the music actually gave you the willies !