13.01.2014, 07:50
There was a helicopter gunship game made by Microprose if I remember right (yes, I really am that old boo hoo hoo, no-one cares about geriatic simmers anymore... sob...)
I remember one mission across a desert where I was approaching a mountain (actually it was a pyramid, but these were the days when imagination didn't need huge mip-mapped 32 bit colour bump mapped imagery stretched across detailed height field s and DEM data). There was nothing in sight to stop me reaching the primary target (a supply column if I remember right) but for some reason I got spooked. So instead of carrying on I crept around the mountain the other side at low altitude, and a good job too, there was a Hind waiting to ambush me.
Never could get into F16 Falcon, but I remember enjoying F15 Strike Eagle III largely because with fire and forget harpoon missiles, Iraqi warships never stood a chance - I was landing at home base before the missile hit the ship (which of course it always did).
But it was with Red Baron and Aces of the Pacific that I cut my teeth in aerial derring do. Fabulous for their day. Mainly because the gameplay was superior to the graphics.
I remember one mission across a desert where I was approaching a mountain (actually it was a pyramid, but these were the days when imagination didn't need huge mip-mapped 32 bit colour bump mapped imagery stretched across detailed height field s and DEM data). There was nothing in sight to stop me reaching the primary target (a supply column if I remember right) but for some reason I got spooked. So instead of carrying on I crept around the mountain the other side at low altitude, and a good job too, there was a Hind waiting to ambush me.
Never could get into F16 Falcon, but I remember enjoying F15 Strike Eagle III largely because with fire and forget harpoon missiles, Iraqi warships never stood a chance - I was landing at home base before the missile hit the ship (which of course it always did).
But it was with Red Baron and Aces of the Pacific that I cut my teeth in aerial derring do. Fabulous for their day. Mainly because the gameplay was superior to the graphics.