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Old 25 November 2008, 01:16 PM
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Default Any of you gamers like Flight Sims?

I am liking the look of Ubisofts next release in the the Tom Clancy series:

Home | HAWX | Ubisoft

Takes my back to the days I spent hours on the PC playing Eurofighter 2000

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Old 25 November 2008, 01:25 PM
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Cool. I was a Falcon fan myself. Will watch this one with interest
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I played them for hours on my old Amiga A500.

In fact, watching a friend play F19 was the reason I bought one!

Old 26 November 2008, 12:01 PM
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....and this

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....sorry, one more I remember playing

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Originally Posted by P1Fanatic
I am liking the look of Ubisofts next release in the the Tom Clancy series:

Home | HAWX | Ubisoft

Takes my back to the days I spent hours on the PC playing Eurofighter 2000

Simon
Looks fricking awesome!
Old 26 November 2008, 01:21 PM
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no cockpit view though. Looks very arcade like to me
Old 26 November 2008, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Iain Young
Cool. I was a Falcon fan myself. Will watch this one with interest
Good old Falcon.........
Old 26 November 2008, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by SirFozzalot
I played them for hours on my old Amiga A500.

In fact, watching a friend play F19 was the reason I bought one!

Man those were the days!

I remember "Fighter Bomber" as being buckets of fun too.................
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Originally Posted by SirFozzalot
....sorry, one more I remember playing

This game had the coolest soundtrack! In fact I think no game has ever managed to have such cool music.
Old 26 November 2008, 02:02 PM
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I loved my old Amiga 500 with its massive 512k ram upgrade playing the flight sims

Anyone still remember bedroom olympics
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I got F18 Interceptor with my Amiga 500
I never could drop the lift belt/boat/whatever for the downed pilot near that island!
Speaking of flight sims, does anyone remember a helicopter game that was less of a flight sim, but more than an arcade game? it had cartoon animation of you walking into the C/O's office at the beginning. Now if anyone can find it from that terrible description I'll be amazed
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Originally Posted by scoobyverysoon
I loved my old Amiga 500 with its massive 512k ram upgrade playing the flight sims

Anyone still remember bedroom olympics
Yeah it could even allow "speech" on some games!
Old 26 November 2008, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Neanderthal
I got F18 Interceptor with my Amiga 500
I never could drop the lift belt/boat/whatever for the downed pilot near that island!
Speaking of flight sims, does anyone remember a helicopter game that was less of a flight sim, but more than an arcade game? it had cartoon animation of you walking into the C/O's office at the beginning. Now if anyone can find it from that terrible description I'll be amazed
Yes I do!

You had to fly it with the mouse, which at the time was way forward.
You could even drop bombs.
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Originally Posted by Neanderthal
I got F18 Interceptor with my Amiga 500
I never could drop the lift belt/boat/whatever for the downed pilot near that island!
Speaking of flight sims, does anyone remember a helicopter game that was less of a flight sim, but more than an arcade game? it had cartoon animation of you walking into the C/O's office at the beginning. Now if anyone can find it from that terrible description I'll be amazed
On F-18, what got up my nose was trying to sink the "subcarrier" in the last missions.
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Flight sim games are awesome, they are the best games going. I love air to air combat.
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Originally Posted by Janspeed
Yes I do!

You had to fly it with the mouse, which at the time was way forward.
You could even drop bombs.

THUNDERHAWK!!!!!
Old 26 November 2008, 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Neanderthal

THUNDERHAWK!!!!!


"..and the pilot?"

"One of our finest sirrrr!"

Old 26 November 2008, 04:33 PM
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Thunderhawk!!!

There was also a more "serious" sim, F-16 Combat Pilot.
Old 27 November 2008, 12:18 AM
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Sometimes play Lock On, which is brilliant but has a steep learning curve
Old 27 November 2008, 02:28 AM
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Originally Posted by chrisUK300
Sometimes play Lock On, which is brilliant but has a steep learning curve
....and sucks the gigahurtz outta ya pc!
Old 29 November 2008, 01:03 AM
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yeah it does but.........it rocks
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Old 29 November 2008, 01:38 PM
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When I picked up my Xbox360 recently I bought a used version of Ace Combat 6, which I really enjoyed, and played to the end. Reminded me slightly of FA / 18 Interceptor on my A1000 !
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Originally Posted by spectrum48k
Reminds me of "Top Gun" on the Spectrum!

Split screen 1v1 screen was a laugh!
Old 29 November 2008, 05:33 PM
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I had a go on Xplane9 today - running on an iPhone! Really quite impressive.
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cannot believe ive just seen this thread about 5 minutes ago i was watching ef2000 on youtube remembering the good times flying through the fjords ,how i miss them .

is there any other recent flight sims out at the minute ive looked on play but there isnt alot of new ones

YouTube - EF-2000 122 ESQ
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Originally Posted by zs_phil
cannot believe ive just seen this thread about 5 minutes ago i was watching ef2000 on youtube remembering the good times flying through the fjords ,how i miss them .

is there any other recent flight sims out at the minute ive looked on play but there isnt alot of new ones

YouTube - EF-2000 122 ESQ
if you've got an xbox360 , try Ace Combat 6 like I mentioned. It's a bit like FA/18 Interceptor in that it mixes reality with a some "chase the cruise missile" , type missions!


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