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It's the games we grew up on - but for me it's hard to ever go home again :(
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.
^One of my all time favorites, on the C64. Here's to hoping that newly invigorated Microprose can create a new generation of Gunship!
That doesn't seem like the original Gunship...graphics are way more modern than what I remember.
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 ! :coolsmiley:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunship_(video_game)
Gunship 2000 was probably my favorite of the three.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
F19 I loved too. IIRC it came out a few years after Gunship.
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.
I loved Battlehawks too, and a site favorite here, Their Finest Hour. I don't think we'll see games like that again.
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.
With Microprose surging forward with it's Mighty 8th announcement, maybe I'm wrong. I hope so.
I never got to play Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe :(
I lover all three of the MicroProse gunship games. At the snail pace dcs operates, we may just get a gunship 2020 before dcs gets us an Apache module.
Quote from: Gusington on May 26, 2020, 08:17:10 AM
I never got to play Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe :(
You can still get it and run it through dosBox. The main game and all subsequent additions are available online.
I am a graphics whore...
...that said, I do have Secret Weapons Over Normandy.
Maybe we don't see modern versions of these games because they are more niche now than they used to be 30+ years ago.
I hope the reborn Microprose proves that wrong.
The funny part will be young gamers today thinking they're the first to play it. Just like my grandkids watching Lion King. ;D
I'm sure somewhere out there is an old timer who actually fought as part of a crew on a B17 or B24, reading this and is like 'pfft'
I bet the Gunship 2020 remake will suck. But then the Gunship! 2020 version will be MUCH better...
HA! Exclamation points make everything better.
Usually, the games i play the most on GOG are the games i already played back then. It is challenging to start playing an old game you've never played before. I do have many in my collection and try but, as i said, i play the old favorites or games i bought back then but just scratched the surface (played but not to the end).
Quote from: SirAndrewD on 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.
I remember playing F15 Strike Eagle a lot.
I think it was the first co-op I even played. My son and I set two chairs and PCs up with one behind the other so we could sit 'in the plane' :)
Come to think of it, we also played 688 Attack Sub with a red bulb in the light - never seem to get that much into games any more :)
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