Combat Flight Sims of the 1990's reviewed at MiGMan's Flight Sim Museum





Combat Flight Sims of the 1990's 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 1990 Air Combat Yugeki-oh II Advanced Tactical Fighter II Avenger A-10 Somewhere between Flight of the Intruder and Falcon 3.0 this project was shelved - despite press adverts appearing around the world. Why? MiGMan's inside sources reveal the true story behind the fate of Avenger A-10. Title - Chuck Yeager's Air Combat Release Date - 1990 Developer - Brent Iverson Publisher - Electronic Arts Collection - EA Classix budget release CDROM. Handbook (strategy guide) published by Prima and Computer Gaming World in 1992. 222 pp. Comments - Exhibit contains 1 hour of free audio - Yeager talking about tactics and flying. Chuck Yeager's Air Combat was for many people their first exposure to PC flight simulation of any kind and the beginning of a life-long hobby. Dogfight Published by Microprose, Dogfight was released on Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC platforms. I bought the Atari version and was blown away by the smooth and "complex" graphics and variety of gameplay. The graphics looked nothing at all like the splash screen above - being rather state of the art early 1990's shaded polygon models. One outstanding innovation for the time was the inclusion of virtual cockpits padlock view. The Atari graphics looked much crisper than the PC version, probably because the Atari hardware and monitors were optimised for the low screen resolution whereas PC monitors displayed the 320 x 200 graphics as chunky rectangular pixel blocks. F16 Fighting Falcon - 1990 Title - Jetfighter 2 Release Date - 1990 Developer - Velocity Publisher - Collection - Comments - This was one of the first Flight sims I saw on the PC. Knights of the Sky LHX Attack Chopper Megafortress A Stealthy B-52 ? Yep - based on the Books - Fiction of the same name by Dale Brown. MiG-29 Fulcrum - Domark 1990 Operation Harrier Proflight Proflight was one of the first flight sims I saw on a personal computer. I had an Atari ST - bought strictly for business use mind you - and I believe Proflight even ran on the Atari Monochrome monitor. In fact I'm sure it did - high res - 600 x 400 pixels ? Pretty amazing for the time. Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe Snowstrike Strike Aces or Fighter Bomber How's this for a mission brief : All enemy targets must be destroyed. You start with low internal fuel Due to length of mission, you may require air-air refuelling twice. Pick up secret plans from specified airport on Rwy36 or Rwy36L and deliver them to other specified airport Fly down the 'tunnel of death' and also destroy all SAM's in the 'tunnel'. Land back at base on any Rwy. Warning, a 10min timer may start at any time during the mission - the mission must be completed before the timer stops. Tough enough ??? This was the sort of challenge posed by Activision's 1990 Strike Aces or Fighter Bomber. SU-25 Sturmovik The background sound playing on this page is from - Falcon 3.0 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999



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