ScoobyDoo555

what ever happened to all those great combat flight sims from the 90s?
Remember Falcon 4.0?
A110 - tankbuster
F117 (?)....
Strike Commander (the fore-runner to the popular Wing COmmander series....)
Wing Commander (played them all on most formats - loved em!)
How come you can't get games like this anymore?

Dan

Hanslow

Probably because console gaming has taken off so much more now so development companies are concentrating their efforts where the main market is

Tiggs

just what i was after where are they? its all bloody "shoot the ghoul" nowadays.

spectrum48k

Falcon is STILL around, but its a DIY effort from the community these days.

Spectrum Holobyte don't existing anymore. Not sure who has rights now.

Anyone remember FA18 Interceptor on the Amiga ? The first qulaity flight sim I ever played:


interview wih the author of the game: http://radish.hosted.*****.net/stein...es/000027.html

A few others I played from my early computer days!
Flight Simulator, ZX Spectrum 48k from Sinclair Research 1983
Fighter Pilot, ZX Spectrum 48k from Digital Integration 1983
Combat Lynx, BBC Micro 1984

Tiggs

"Combat Lynx, BBC Micro 1984"

lol....now we're talking!

Iwan

God all i used to play were combat flight sims goign back a few years, Birds of Prey, F-19 Stealth Fighter, TFX, A-10 Cuba, etc.

I downloaded the demo of X-Plane yesterday which is pretty good, but I would be interested in finding another decent "combat" flight SIM again.

Daz34

Not at all. It has been re-released in a bug free much improved package.
See here.

brihoppy

ive been playing 'lock on: modern air combat', which is pretty good...you can pick it up dirt cheap, give it a try...you might like it...!

spectrum48k

Ah, that's good to see

Falcon really captured my imagination, back in the day.

Had it on my Amiga A1000 back in '87 I think - and was always gutted I didn't get the canopy bullet holes with my 512k RAM. Apparently those with 1,024k did, the posh gits!