Some interesting new titles added to GOG

Jarhead0331 · May 25, 2020, 11:46:22 AM

https://www.gog.com/promo/20200525_retroism?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=20200525_nl_weekly_sale_EN&utm_term=EN&track_click=1&link_id=main_CTA

Gusington · May 25, 2020, 01:53:31 PM

It's the games we grew up on - but for me it's hard to ever go home again :(

smittyohio · May 25, 2020, 03:17:44 PM

Quote from: Gusington on May 25, 2020, 01:53:31 PM
It's the games we grew up on - but for me it's hard to ever go home again :(

Agree... the only one that looks somewhat playable is Gunship.

Gusington · May 25, 2020, 03:48:17 PM

^One of my all time favorites, on the C64. Here's to hoping that newly invigorated Microprose can create a new generation of Gunship!

jamus34 · May 25, 2020, 04:05:52 PM

That doesn't seem like the original Gunship...graphics are way more modern than what I remember.

steve58 · May 25, 2020, 04:14:08 PM

Quote from: jamus34 on May 25, 2020, 04:05:52 PM
That doesn't seem like the original Gunship...graphics are way more modern than what I remember.

Gunship 2000 followed Gunship. Then there was Gunship!. Note the !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunship_(video_game)

Jarhead0331 · May 25, 2020, 05:10:25 PM

Gunship 2000 was probably my favorite of the three.

Toonces · May 25, 2020, 06:31:06 PM

Man I'd love to get into Pacific Air War. But my eyes.

There used to be a pretty strong modding community for that on SimHQ. I haven't been on there in a long time, though.

SirAndrewD · May 25, 2020, 07:57:30 PM

I mean, I played every one of those till my eyes bled.

But now just looking at them makes my eyes bleed. Gus is right, you can't go home again.

All this does is make me wish there was a Gunship 2020 available.

Gusington · May 25, 2020, 08:24:31 PM

I thought Gunship! was the original 1980s version I fell so in love with when I was 12, and the newer version was Gunship 2000...

...whatever a Gunship 2020 is sorely needed!!

SirAndrewD · May 25, 2020, 08:49:49 PM

Yeah, I never played Gunship. It was one of those Microprose classics I missed.

I missed F15 Strike Eagle too.

I put a ton of time into F19 and Gunship 2000. Gunship 2000 was incredible, I liked it a lot more than even the Jane's Longbow games.

Gusington · May 25, 2020, 09:38:41 PM

F19 I loved too. IIRC it came out a few years after Gunship.

SirAndrewD · May 25, 2020, 09:42:17 PM

Yep, and F15 Strike Eagle.

My first sim was actually Strike Fleet from Lucasfilm Games so named at the time.

I got F19 and Battlehawks 1942 shortly after.

Gusington · May 25, 2020, 10:16:38 PM

I loved Battlehawks too, and a site favorite here, Their Finest Hour. I don't think we'll see games like that again.

SirAndrewD · May 26, 2020, 12:23:18 AM

Yep, I did BoB Their Finest Hour and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe.

And I'm not sure why we don't see games like that again.