[ Retro Scan of the Week ] Fly in the Face of Reality
April 14th, 2008 by Benj Edwards
Tom’s congenital lack of eyeballs had never been an obstacle…until now.
Discussion topic of the week: What’s your favorite flight simulator software of all time?
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April 14th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Probably either Silent Thunder: A10 Tank Killer 2, or Star Fox.
April 14th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Definitely Gradius. That counts, right?
April 14th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
I would have to say Pilotwings for the SNES. At least, that was the most sophisticated flight sim I ever played.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
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Layne
April 14th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Ok, back on topic….
A10 Tank Killer (the original) was the one I always went back to…..it was fun and easy enough and blowing stuff up was easy that way. LHX (helicopter) was another one that I would spend a good bit of time with.
And if we’re just talking “flight”, Wing Commander was awesome.
Layne
April 15th, 2008 at 8:14 am
I was really into F-15 Strike Eagle and Gunship.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:13 am
I enjoyed playing F-19 quite a bit back in the day. Also F-22 Retaliator — and don’t forget Top Gun for the NES. 🙂
April 15th, 2008 at 10:26 am
FS II for the Apple II claimed hours and hours of my youth.
Space-Sim for Pentium was also very fun.
A-10 may be my favorite.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Did anybody else like Star Raiders for the Atari 800? Man, that blew me away as a kid. I really felt like I was flying through space.
April 16th, 2008 at 7:56 am
I always liked Flight Simulator by… Sublogic was it?
April 16th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Benj, how could I have forgotten Star Raiders? It was one of the few games of that era that seemed to draw you into the game play.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Daniel… I think you’re right. If it’s the one I’m thinking of, the landscape was a square grid. There was a flat range of mountains on the perimeter which weren’t solid. You could fly through, and a little ways beyond the edge of the grid you would wrap around to the other side.
Then, Flight Simulator 2.0 had Chicago and NYC. I can’t count how many times I crashed trying to land at O’Hare Intl Airport.
April 16th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
TIE Fighter. It had a storyline, complex controls, cutscenes and characters. Groundbreaking.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I’d have to say the Wing Commander games, X-wing, and Tie Fighter have to be my all time faves for PC. f-15 strike eagle took a lot of my time as well but not as much as the sci-fi flight sims. Star Raiders was and still is an awesome game. I still have the cart and the special pad w/ overlay for the 2600.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Glider. 😉
As fun as that was, LHX took up a lot of my time, as did TIE Fighter.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
F-19 Stealth Fighter! An uber-classic!
April 18th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Sub-Logic’s Flight Simulator series was always too complicated for me. Too realistic, I guess. But it definitely was impressive.
August 11th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I remember that ad and wanting one….