Aces of the Pacific - Gameplay

[jfsimon1981]

Love affair.

Thank you so much.

[kanis338]

This video is bored.

[jlsperling1]

I think all my pilots had like 350 kills and hundreds of ground targets.

[jlsperling1]

As soon as my pilot became flight leader I would have him always equip the flight with some kind of air-to-ground ordnance. For long-range missions I would always equip with drop tanks and rockets.

[jlsperling1]

Many times I fought through the whole war up to and including the 1946 expansion. I flew an Army pilot through from the Philippines in 1941 to Japan in 1946 - from P-40s to P-47s to P-80s. The Navy fighter pilot went from F4Fs to F6Fs and transitioned to the F8F in the 1946 expansion. The easiest was the F7F and F8F for air combat maneuvering - the absolute best for ground attack was the P-47, with the P-38J a close second for long-range attack with drop tanks and rockets.

[jlsperling1]

You obviously did not know anything about the strong points and weak points of the various aircraft. You *don't* try to turn with a Zeke when flying a P-38!!! The P-38 excells in climb and speed.

Claire Chennault learned the same lessons over China in 1937 - 1941. The A6M2 was introduced over China in the summer of 1940. He made thorough reports back the the States. The reaction of the Army brass was incredulity...they did not believe that any fighter was capable of such things.

[ghoulunathics]

could some awesome person, maybe god, tape the menu music only without any click sounds and upload it to youtube?

[MrBoxinB]

I killed all the ACES so many times!

[gologabob]

I wish someone could make a mod/use emulators or anything to get us some co op computer aces of the pacific 10vs10 or co op missions



[codmod55]

Is it wrong if i still play this? lol

[spacemanspiff33]

This intro used to give me a boner. I had no idea what was happening...I was 9.....goooood times......

[Holmboy79]

Many fond memories of playing this on my 486 DX 33 MHz with 8 MB RAM, a 100 MB HDD and an 8-bit Sound Blaster.

[boethius17]

I loved this game is there anyway I can get it?

[Samuli385]

does someone know how to use torpedoes in this game i know the button and when it drops to water it looks like nothing happens like i failed and ships dont get damaged (sorry bad english)

[m3th0dm4n]

@Samuli385 You had to be flying at a certain altitude and speed I believe.

[ratbaztid]

omg this game kicked so much ass

[lordOFbrooklyn]

this brings back memories god damn we all get old don't we?

[piginsty]

I live in hope that this game will one day be re-released in a modern format in some retro-game pack. OMG it was great.

[rugbyunion1000]

Good graphics for a game that is older than me!!!!

[brok2]

I'd love to hear in what ways this game had more soul than IL-2 in your opinion, and why the campaign was better. Don't spare any details, I'd like to hear as much info as there is.

[xxREDLEADER1xx]

@brok2 This game contained the most universal campaign mode ever. You could start as far back as 1941 and you could fly for any branch in Japan or the US. Practically every major battle I can think of out of memory was used. Real locations, so many aircraft to choose from, all the ships, squadrons, ace pilots, real historical missions, and real payloads. Your bombs never spawned back so make em count! This game is what got me hooked on aircraft and history due to its immense detail!

[Jonhny2]

Is it true that this game was very demanding for its time and lagged out 386SX machines?

[wuwindz]

word. I raked in over a hundred kills flying zeros and later on in the war the ki-83. Best fighter in the game.

[xxREDLEADER1xx]

@wuwindz I went through the game once in the Army Air Corp started out fly the P40E Warhawk, and then by 1943 shifted to the P-38J Lightning. I flew in the same squadron as McGuire and Bong and came out of the war with 126 kills. At least that's the one I remember the best....

[wuwindz]

@xxREDLEADER1xx Good stuff. Man I miss that game. They should remake it with a multiplayer aspect to it, and not mess with the graphics or sound fx too much.

[Tebok73509]

I wish they would stop with all the 'arcade style' shoooter crap and make more authentic flight sims like this. They should rerelease Aces of the Pacific with modern graphics.

[PhatFarm60]

@Tebok73509 il-2:1946 all the realism you can handle :)

[UBOATss]

o god o god, im so happy there are alot like me remembering this game, i spent hours shooting down with this one..thank you for putting this up

[bigjigyeah]

Man so many memories.. My Dad loved planes so he bought all the Dynamix flight sims. I remember they all had a really great campaign modes. They really don't make WWI and WWII flight sims like the Aces series

[secondlifecopybot]

Havent found another flight sim to compare to it since.

[Holmatro75]

It was my favourity games. 1995. :)

[kvbrock82]

man oh man did i LOVE this game.

[LeeBondo]

OMG, i spent hours on this game in my teens. Used to run it full graphics settings on my 386 DX66 (that didnt have the maths co-processor like the 486) with 8mb of ram and running @ 66mhz. I can say it ran amazing, i loved this game. I did find it for download for free a while back but it comes in a file that you need a floppy drive to copy it to. Its sort of a floppy version of an ISO...

[opt123123]

haha i spent ages playing this on my 486 :)

anyone know where it can be downloaded again?

[dan1986ist]

I downloaded it from vetusware

[bdwskywarn]

@dan1986ist Dude is it free? I have the CD of the Aces Collectors Edition but I had to had it professionaly installed in 1995 and it has never worked again. I would LOVE to be able to play this game again.

[dan1986ist]

@bdwskywarn yeah, it's free

[korgathbladefist]

i love this game man! anyone know how i could find it and get it to work on my laptop?

[RunsForCover]

Scratch one flattop

[corsair16]

That was a fine game. Too bad there weren't more people that played it.

[vgmaster9]

Cause people were more interested in playing Doom at the time.

[jros83]

i played both.

[gruffgruff92]

graphics doesnt matter, i played this game as a kid and i have so many memories from this so almost get tears in my eyes when i see this and hear the lovely 16-bits music <3

[dantasyland]

Thanks for posting, i loved this game. I always would do the dive bombing missions, i would either pick an Dauntless or a Val: hitting the target and pulling up before crashing into the target was always a challenge!

[Mikemc]

I would pick 'escort bombers', the biggest ones, and then shoot them down! Also driving around on my home runway and blast all the buildings.

And the bulet sounds went DEW DEW DEW :D

[StealthDonut]

Wow, this is a blast from the past! I poured a lot of time into this game. My favorites were the historical missions...especially the Torpedo 8 mission. Never could finish that one. :/

The Pearl Harbor attack is great mission too. Took my P40 north on a whim and found the Japanese "task force" (after 30 minutes of manual flying), which consisted of a single flattop. XD

I strafed it for good measure. :D

[IMakeMoreMoneyThanYo]

I loved this game :)

[mrcraig41]

Oh man the memories! I played the heck out of this one.

[sliderule78]

This is my favorite combat flight sim of all time. I used to play this for hours when I was a kid on my parents 486. 25mhz cpu, 4mb of ram, and windows 3.1...Oh Yeah!!

[gerodinis]

LOL you had a powerful system for that time... And deep pockets I guess? ;-) PC's were too expensive back then.

[nibblebaby]

I believe this was my first flight sim game I ever bought for the IBM and I agree with you in regards to the lack of soul by the newer games. I also love Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. No game has yet to come close to their campaign. At least now gametap has this game.

[UKJohnUK]

Very professional vid. Wish more vid recorders of games remember to not flash thru screens and give time for viewers to read things - like this vid allows you to do! So well done Killerratte! Oh - and yea - a GREAT game that I still own (have the collector's edition with Red Baron, Aces Over Europe and A10- Killer!)

[jobu88]

I used to play the hell out of this game and also Aces over Europe. European Air War was better but AoE and AoP were awesome games.

[jobu88]

Oh yeah I forgot I had a CH Products Flight Stick Pro, and I had the hat switch set up for the left-right-up view, so in a turning dogfight I could look up and see the enemy where I couldn't see him with the normal nose view.

[bubbs747]

This was the best flying program ever for its time. EVER.

[caserock]

bring back a lot of memories. it's great to hear the music, for some reason i couldn't have music with my game.

[freestyla85]

oh man, my first pc game :)

this brings back alot of memories.. i loved it. such a great game and i put so much time into it

[ghoulunathics]

could someone who has this game tape the musics and add them to youtube? would be so cool.

[ghoulunathics]

im sure that there is nothing that makes me feel more nostalgic that these musics.. this game was one of the first games i've ever played and gotta admit that i would still play it if i could get it work well enough on my comp :/

[seevee1969]

Works like a champ on Win Xp provided you have a newish (powerful) computer with:

1. DOSBox from dosbox(dot)com plus

2. DOSShell, from loonies(dot)narod(dot)ru

[bpeck77]

Yes, this was the top of the heap in 1992! The music is still awesome... I don't care what anyone says ;D

[kramit1354]

this game was badass when it came out does anyone know where to download it.

[IronBrig4]

Ahhh, this takes me back.

[downupacross]

first game i ever played <3

one of the best to

[progamerX94]

horrible.

[matrox]

This game sucks...today..though when it came out it was the best in its class.

[freak184]

I still have this game and although the graphics are bad it is still fun and historically accurate

[a0e0roberts]

Wow, does THIS bring back the memories. I worked on this program.

[snipeshot11]

GAY

[marccusalexander63]

I played these game some much I thought my wife would divorce me.oh those were the days.

[mrcraig41]

Man I used to play this one all day and

all night long! If only multiplayer would

have been added to this thing, even if that

meant a modem-to-modem call or two computers over a null-serial link. I would dream about

such things.

[BaVoBa]

I was like 10-11 years old when my dad got me this game afer i nagged for weeks. I LOVED it! And i devoured the brilliant manual although i didnt speak english that well (im german), but i still got it today!

My primary motivation was the Babablack Sheep series on TV, and i almost always played the F4U-Career, while my dad started a jap Torpedo plane career. :)

AOE was great too, and today im in for IL2 till SOMETIME(when?!) BoB comes out.

[Tailas444]

Dude, I freakin LOVED this game back in the day! This brings back so many memories of me and my brothers taking turns playing this game. I'm tempted to try and fidn a version of this game that would work on my computer now.

[TremcladClock]

I was addicted to these games.

[UBOATss]

i did know there were some many ppl who love this game as much as i do!!!..i am 30 now..by then this was my favourite always winning new medals and killing aces..lol..i used to like so much the 3d vehicle library (used to say OMG what a game)

[MilitantDanny]

Me too man, all through my early teens I played this damn game. Had to use a bootdisk to get it to work right haha Now I happily play IL2 1946, but it isnt the same as this old gem....

[BlueRainDrop]

no shit, the stupid bootdisks! oh man, running games on dos way back when was always a fucking nightmare. but it was worth it! aces, wolf3d, 7th guest, oh my!

[killakid934]

lol is there anyway i could download this game

[wetmackeral]

Good in its time period, but Oleg Maddox Il2 series has pretty much bested it on all fronts it used to occupy. Used to be an excellent game though

[Docthewrench]

I still have this game and all its disks lol I loved it

[Fymious]

This game was the best flight simulator game ever!

[killakid934]

im trying to find world war 1 biplane games that you can download if anybody knos any let me kno

[Jaydeeman20]

Oh you mean RED BARON, cuz I think it was also made by dynamix as well.

[lonewulf44]

Man ...a great game! I played this forever!

[Alfazil]

I used to play this game for hours

[Reubenhubert]

I used to spend hours fighting the air war in the Pacific.

I have this game, Aces Over Europe, and The Red Baron in my room.

I need to find them, fire up the last working 486 I have and fly again.

Dang XP told me that it can't play these games. :(

[SchlossRitter]

Search for the DosBox program.

[Jaydeeman20]

OMG, I remember I played this game repeatly, and still I would die to get my hands on this game again.

[timmyp34]

I loved this game on my 486 with 4mb ram. I liked flying the US F8f Bearcat and the Japanese Frank. They even had a Aces '46 scenario where the Abomb didn't work; the Japanese built a Kikka jet and the US had the P80 Shooting Star i recall

[dhg4983]

Brings back so many memories.

[KWatson1984]

I still have this game, but I have to bend over backwards to get it to run right.

[NackWeasel]

this was a good game. my first flight sim was Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, but I always enjoyed this one very much.

[tomservo110]

"this game has so much more soul in it than IL-2 and all that Oleg Maddox shit."

Agreed. Thanks for posting this.

[freak184]

I love playing this game on dos box it is so fun.

[HeavyMetal82]

I loved this game when I was a kid! Looking back on it now it's realy amazing how arcadey it is. But still this game is awesome!

[sod16]

r u fucking serious lmao 92? this game owns for a 1992 game my god the funny thing is u can have more detail using paint

[Deovis]

This was my first flight sim ever in 92!!!

I spend a lot of time with it when i was younger...UNFORGETTABLE!!!