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Wargaming => The Modern World => Topic started by: BanzaiCat on February 01, 2019, 08:09:28 AM
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THIS brought back a lot of memories, of playing it on my grandfather's Apple IIc.
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Those graphics push the limits of nostalgia
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Man, I played that game to death on my C64. Loved ever minute of it. :bigthumb:
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I played the hell out of the original Harpoon on an OG Mac, but I can't say those are fond memories. Crashes were fairly routine. Usually right when you were just about to Alpha Strike the Kirov Battlegroup.
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There was another one...Strike Fleet?...where you had a binocular view at the top.
Yup, it was Strike Fleet: The Naval Task Force Simulator. I had a lot of fun with that one too.
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And who could forget F-19 Stealth Fighter?
And M-1 Tank Platoon...
I should have named this thread, "Which Pixel Is My Tank/Jet/Ship?" ;D
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what's dumb about the F-19 game is that 10 years earlier, there already was an F-19 in development that the DOD decided not to go thru with b/c they could upgrade F16s to do the same thing, and the F-117 was undergoing operational trials (that they didn't tell anyone about)
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I was hooked on Might & Magic back then. Along with Red Storm Rising. :applause:
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I actually have M1 Tank Platoon for both PC and Amiga. The manual is very impressive. Many of those games back then had thick, well written, and well illustrated manuals.
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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...)
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The original Might & Magic had a dungeon with a 'spin trap' kind of thing where you would move onto it, in First Person Perspective, and when triggered it would cause the screen to spin out of control wildly around and around. You had to hit the 'move' button when facing just the correct direction to escape. The first time I ran into this I was convinced I had somehow broken my C-128 and ruined it. :o Afterward I laughed about it but not first. It scared the pooh out of me.
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Jason, are you going to give yourself an avatar, or am I gonna have to have Mirth do it for you? ;)
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Jason, are you going to give yourself an avatar, or am I gonna have to have Mirth do it for you? ;)
Oh, let me do it!
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AAAHHHHHHH!!!!
Actually, the problem is that I usually visit this site on a computer where I don't have my avatar photos stored. So I naturally remember every time, but it does me no good! -- my memory is sadly narrowminded about various things.
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OK Mirth, now's your chance!
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AAAHHHHHHH!!!!
Actually, the problem is that I usually visit this site on a computer where I don't have my avatar photos stored. So I naturally remember every time, but it does me no good! -- my memory is sadly narrowminded about various things.
So....mirth CAN do it? (http://www.aarcentral.com/emoti/please.gif)
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AAAHHHHHHH!!!!
Actually, the problem is that I usually visit this site on a computer where I don't have my avatar photos stored. So I naturally remember every time, but it does me no good! -- my memory is sadly narrowminded about various things.
So....mirth CAN do it? (http://www.aarcentral.com/emoti/please.gif)
I have an excellent selection to choose from.
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So....mirth CAN do it? (http://www.aarcentral.com/emoti/please.gif)
if you're not careful, he'll put lipstick on yours :)
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I'd like to suggest some combo of Bill Murray and Vomit Guy. :sick: Just so I can have a laugh everytime I come here.
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I would say it's too late, but it's never too late for ADMIN POWWWERRRRSSS!!
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>:D