It is fun. Shoot-bomb-rearm/refuel in missions, upgrade your plane in between
Honorable mention: Choplifter. Gameboy.
Luckily someone eventually realeased a DOS utility that would fake a 4MHz clock by making everything take two cycles.
Good times. :)
My 486 definitely had a turbo button (that was the one I built after using the original PC for so many years).
I had only used Z80/128k machines up to then. My dad had an Amstrad 6128, with those 3” “hard” floppies, sturdy, with a decent thick metal gate.
This PC was a very different beast. I remember being confused about the disks. They seemed weak and unprotected ! you could literally see that delicate magnetic surface through the opening. I had always been told never to touch it, but there it was, just asking to be touched…
I now have kids of my own; over the winter I setup an old laptop with old games, and started introducing them chronologically to games like Sopwith, Paratrooper, Alley Cat etc.
My 6 year olds son comment on this game in his journal:
"I like: everything. I don't like: nothing."
Took me a second to not over interpret the seeming double negative :-)
Update : years later I played wings of fury on my cousin's amiga 500 ; far better game but not the same magic :)
Still a core memory, though.
justinhj•2h ago
The multiplayer game Altitude was a good modern example.
jauntywundrkind•2h ago
We were always begging the daycare to let us play this. Very solid.
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