Gunship! by Microprose

[Great Ajax]

Interesting.  Gunship! is now available on Steam.

Trey

[-budd-]

we're lazy...we like links :D

http://store.steampowered.com/app/286730/

[Shelldrake]

I could never get the hang of the controls in Gunship which was odd since I had no trouble with the Jane's Longbow sims and Enemy Engaged sims.

[bbmike]

I could never get the hang of the controls in Gunship which was odd since I had no trouble with the Jane's Longbow sims and Enemy Engaged sims.

For me, not just Gunship. I could never get the hang of the controls in any helicopter game.

[Gusington]

One of my first and most beloved sims, and I was actually good at it. But I wonder if I could play it happily now...it must look really dated.

Edit: actually its much newer than the version I first played back in 1986. Looks pretty good. In scrren shots anyway.

[Grim.Reaper]

Besides graphically I wonder how different the newer version is...played the old version a ton and loved it!  $7 doesn't seem like much to try.

[Shelldrake]

One of my first and most beloved sims, and I was actually good at it. But I wonder if I could play it happily now...it must look really dated.

Edit: actually its much newer than the version I first played back in 1986. Looks pretty good. In scrren shots anyway.

This looks to be Gunship! from 2000 as opposed to Gunship (1986) and Gunship 2000 (1991). What difference an exclamation mark makes!! Even so I am not to sure how well the graphics will hold up in 2014.

[Gusington]

You are both gaming devils.

[Grim.Reaper]

Here is a review

http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/gunship-review/1900-2558759/

[Grim.Reaper]

Based on review likely will pass

[Jack Nastyface]

I recall playing this and having some fun with it, but some of the missions were very "puzzle like" - meaning, you had to find the one place on the map where you could do pop-up attacks, and if you didn't kill off all enemy assets in a particular order, you were screwed.  I had much more fun with Gunship 2000.

[RooksBailey]

One of my first and most beloved sims, and I was actually good at it.

Mine, too!  The career mode was one of the best ever made.  I recall one mission where we were sent out to shoot up a WP tank column.  I took a hit from something and the helo went into a spin.  I managed to keep control and land on the side of a hill.  But the hill was too steep so we started sliding down the side.   :D  We slid all the way down before we could escape the totally wrecked craft.  IIRC, I made it back to friendly lines without being captured. 

Such great memories....

[Gusington]

For whatever reason my favorite missions were in the desert, and night missions. Sometimes I would play with a friend and we would coop, one of use would pilot and the other would be gunner.

[RooksBailey]

For whatever reason my favorite missions were in the desert, and night missions. Sometimes I would play with a friend and we would coop, one of use would pilot and the other would be gunner.

Desert missions were fun.  WP/NATO was my favorite, but I also loved the Vietnam setting.  That had some great stuff, too.

[Grim.Reaper]

The campaign was great...really liked it...just sounds like this version might not be it though:(