World War II Flight Sims

This was the first game to really factor in morale for your troops, which added a lot of uncertainty to the gameplay. The whole series is undemanding on hardware and an ideal choice for whiling away time on a laptop.

Added flyable aircraft, objects, scenery and bases to Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (1998). There was also a downloadable version available for Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2.

One of the earliest SVGA sims. Flyable aircraft were the Spitfire, Hurricane, Messerschmidt Bf-109, Messerschmidt Bf -110, Heinkel He-111 and Dornier Do-117. I had an Atari ST at the time and the sim was at least as good (probably better) than the PC version!

Their Finest Hour : Battle of Britain was developed by Lawrence Holland for LucasArts in 1989. George Lucas had been a fan of World War 2 movies since childhood, and the famous dogfight scenes in Star Wars were directly inspired by these films, even down to the gun turret in the Millenium Falcon which was based on the B-17 Flying Fortress.

WWII mobile sim.

Modelled the The Ardennes region in 1944. Integration of the reference material went a step further with a virtual museum being accessible within the sim. Like most Janes sims this one pushed the PC hardware available at the time of it's release (1998) to the limits. A year and a half down the track it ran very well on the average new machine - provided you had a 3D accelerator fitted of course!