Re: CRAP Poll # (Infinity - 6): Bring It Back!

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 08:27:08 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 08/06/2025 12:10, Xocyll wrote:

Gunship (1986)

Don't think I ever played that - gunship 2000 was a close as I got I
think.

>
I played a lot of it on the Atari ST and found it lots of fun. It had a
really good balance between giving you a simulator feel while also being
rather playable. In comparison I really didn't get on with Fighting
Falcon as landing was a complete nightmare (at least for me) and even if
I managed to finish a mission I might end up just ejecting as it was
better than crashing.
>
The next one I played was Jane's Longbow 2. Unfortunately by that point
in my life I no longer found much enjoyment in spending up to hour
learning how to land with a damaged engine using auto-rotate!

For a while, whirly-bird sims were all the rage. We got classics like
the Gunship games, but also "LHX", the Comanche series (including
"Werewolf"), "Hind", "Apache", "Thunderhawk 2", "KA-50 Hokum",  and
the aforementioned Longbow games. It was just a glut of whirlybirds in
the 90s (there were actually more than that; the ones I mentioned were
just the most prominent ;-).

I've fond memories of "LHX" (one of the first flight-sims I played on
PC, I think), "Comanche" (neat tech; a sucky sim but fun arcade
action), "Hind" (just a classy sim) and the original "Longbow" (mostly
the first game; I didn't get the second until long after its
expiration date).