Microprose F-19? Bah. You have to go back to its predecessor on the C64 for some true squinty craziness! That PC sequel was deluxe by contrast!
But the C64 game was still better than the Strike Eagle game on the C64.
Embarrassing fact: I was legitimately convinced that the rulebook for Strike Eagle on the C64, required me to flip the plan over 180 degrees and approach the target inverted before launching my bombs. So that's how I flew all my missions on approach: roll 180, shotgun the bombs off the racks into the sky above my plane, let them fall. And hey, it worked!
To this day I cannot clearly understand whether the rules were written that badly, or whether they were trying to say that the best thing is to dive bomb but slightly inverted in the dive for whatever reason. So the bombs will fall straighter? Weirdly, I've seen something similar written about Stukas, too, recently: the preferred tactic was to dive inverted five or ten degrees, even though this naturally made pulling out of the dive much harder.
(And then another part of my mind insists I COULD NOT POSSIBLY have read that, I must be cross-associating with what I thought the Strike Eagle instructions said decades ago, and forming a false memory...)
Topic: Nostalgia for Old Games (Read 13559 times)