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My game of choice was Gunship on the Commodore 64, the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter simulator from Microprose. Spent YEARS playing that. Best part was the in
by vFunct 2y ago
My game of choice was Gunship on the Commodore 64, the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter simulator from Microprose. Spent YEARS playing that.
Best part was the instruction manual that came with it that was basically a guide of all the military equipment of the Soviet Union that you could target in the game.
- xbar 2y agoThank you for mentioning it. It was a revelation.
- the_af 2y agoGunship 2000 here! I loved that it had a dynamic campaign where the frontline moved according to how well you did. Before that, I also enjoyed LHX. > Best part was the instruction manual that came with it that was basically a guide of all the military equipment of the Soviet Union that you could target in the game. Do you remember what the copy protection was for MicroProse's F-19 Stealth Fighter? It was the silhouettes of US and Soviet fighters and bombers from the Cold War era: "identify this aircraft". Somehow they thought my teenage self, obsessed as I was with Cold War military tech, wouldn't learn the shapes. It's how I learned the shapes of most fighter jets. Yes, I had a pirated copy. We all did back then, legal games were unheard of.
- alisonatwork 2y agoIf you remember LHX fondly, there's a new game out with similar aesthetic: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1906230/Thunder_Helix/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1906230/Thunder_Helix/ Still EA for now, but it looks promising.
- debo_ 2y agoWow, it looks almost exactly like LHX. You weren't kidding. But can I watch from the viewpoint of my TOW missile camera, I wonder... Thanks for the link.
- keyle 2y agoThat guy has been very active on twitter since the start of the development of the game. I don't have his account anymore since I stopped caring about twitter but ... he's probably still there journaling! -- edit: I don't like half assed comments so I went and dig him up https://x.com/HiddenAsbestos https://x.com/HiddenAsbestos
- pferde 2y agoI only learned like 4-5 of those shapes, and kept restarting the game until I got one of those. :)
- CoastalCoder 2y agoMe too! And in retrospect, it's amazing what they managed to pull off with the C64's limited hardware.