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I miss MicroProse and those fat game manuals! Looking inside for code words so you could land in Gunship...good times. Edit-Airborne ranger was well ahead of i

• stevenwoo 9y ago
  I loved Gunship on the Atari ST with a full keyboard template, it was quite a rush to land a damaged chopper with autorotation. Got to work with one of the programmers later, which kind of made everything I did up to that point seem pretty inadequate since we were almost the same age.
• sundvor 9y ago
  Airborne Ranger - that's a title I haven't heard in a LONG while. I must have lost weeks to it though. :) In fact they have so many good ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MicroProse_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MicroProse_games Falcon 4 is still alive today!
  • acemarke 9y ago
    Oh, man... I'd totally forgotten about that game! I played it a _ton_ as a kid :) Now that you mention it, the sights and sounds are coming back to my mind's eye. Aaaand now I know what I'm doing with my free time later this week :)
    • sundvor 9y ago
      Mmmm. I vaguely remember what it was like to have free time. :) If I can find some again, I do want to get F4 BMS up and running with TrackIr on the 34".
• wowtip 9y ago
  Silent Service / Red Storm Rising - those were the days