Strike Commander Intro Cinematic

[z7zTreXz7z]

Just Completed it again... :D

[EmphaticItalic]

DOS games are still the best

[Poss3ssion]

2 were too young in the nineties to understand the power of DOS !!!

[Poss3ssion]

if i'm not wrong, 12 diskettes 1.4mb :))) .Several minutes to install with my old 486

[creamyhorror]

This game's background setting (shown in the manual) was intensely political and amazingly fleshed out. There's just something romantic and fallen-heroic about an era of mercenary pilots in a war-torn region. More games like these, please.

[Juli9803]

como lo descargo please.... download

[Saturpepe]

@Juli9803 Busca en páginas abandonware como Ellosnuncaloharian o Underdogs, creo que para un juego tan antiguo necesitarás usar el DOSBOX, que emula ordenadores antiguos.

[Juli9803]

como lo descrago

[ongkienemir]

she's not responding ! ejecting now !

[rossidavid]

"Alte Zeiten" *heul*

[Boomhauer393]

There is a magazine/book in the game box thats dated july 2011. Cool seeing that after so many years.

[BobDoubelina]

@Boomhauer393

Yeah.. The "Sudden Death" Magazine.. I remember it . It is cool full of fake Ads and a cover story about "Gule Gule", a turkish hitman... Awesone...

For those who haven't bought the game... find it online as PDF ..

[EmphaticItalic]

@Boomhauer393 Strike Commander is set in 2011? Cool!

[umbrellathing]

nostalgia 

[slices17]

Great game. I played it over and over again. Really miss it. Thanks for posting this.

[allekulenavnertatt]

I got this on I think it was 11 disks `3,5.. Awsome.... I remeber I got a stiffie of the woman in the game.

[rumi31]

I play this game too, i really miss.... T_T

[Gunnanator]

2011 AD... So far in the future!

I played this as a little kid. It was my favorite game.

[tybo09]

God, I miss this game...

[bachterman]

the future (2011) is now.

[antonioscheel]

hey i have installed this great game on my pc but for some reason the speech does not come out!! there is music and everything but no speech. have installed speech patch too!! can some one help!!!

[legitfreek]

This game fucked me up. I had to free up so much memory using emm386 on a separate boot floppy. I fucking hated DOS but this game rocked once up and running!

[ExigeGT3]

I remember the dog fights where very close up and personal. It was wing commander but with gravity!

[32DRAM]

This looks epic

I have this on CD-ROM

[justjooniin]

This brings back memories. I had so much fun playing this game back in the day!

[pedanggila]

I recall the introduction is more longer than this as there should be a scene where two Russian pilot in Mig 29s communicate to each other before this uploaded part rolls.

[Pitouhh]

"I'm a fighter pilot, Tex...not a murderer"...God how many hours have I played this game ! The cinematics, the backgroung story in the handbook, the multiple 'ctrl + E' ejection, the low-fuel return to base...A lifetime !

[Dakkiller1]

Swearing in a game made before the ESRB

Im surprised theres no controversey on games with swearing back then so I guess this is how it goes

Mild Language: OK

Blood and Gore: Not OK

[Markduderino]

oh man, i LOVED this game.

[ShanksArmitage]

Pity you don't have the AWE32 soundtrack - that was something that made this game really special!

[admtm24]

Chris Roberts needs to make a comeback.

[smokytyrz]

I remember waiting and waiting for this game/combat sim. It was my first experience with a severely delayed (>1 year) release date. Fun though, and was worth the wait. It was also the first game I upgraded my PC to be able to play. And it was the first game I learned that no amount of equipment can make up for sloppy code. Was stuff beautiful. Thx for posting!

[darkembassymusic]

This was the very first game I ever played when computers first came into Mauritius. My father bought a PC and we played this game for hours. I used to wake up early morning to find my father still playing this game, so I used to sit next to him half asleep watching him kick ass!!! I still love this game, I wish they remade this whilst still keepin' it fun without adding graphical crap and long-learning curves!

[grooveclubhouse]

"south america 2011ad" LOL yeah that did seem ages away back then.

[pcychen72]

yeah...i can still remember in the expansion pack, i had a lot of trouble gunning down those f4s, they are like rhinos with 200mm armour. wasted a lot of cannon shells before i made a kill.

[SunnyCool]

damn this game was good.... too bad they don't make'em like this no more...

[doomsday19821982]

damn right. I learned all my gunnery skills in this game (i was too dumb to learn how to use missiles, so i just closed to gun range on all targets.) Man i hope they port this game to STEAM or something (along with the first two wing commanders)

[thorgallpl]

if they remade this game, those two guys would finish him off 4 sure lol

[roccoschoko]

OMG, i cant believe this, i still can say the words from the intro, i used to be a 10 year old boy, i didnt even speak english, but i loved this game. i still dont understand the first 2 sentences though lol, what do they say? "damn it...." "backoff... "

[SunnyCool]

Tex: Damn it, you take him out or I will!

Player character: Back off! I've almost got "tone".

Really good game...

[firesign72]

damn it, you take him out or I will.

Backoff, I almost got tone.

(meaning the "locked on" sound from his AIM9 sidewinder)

[gattaccio1981]

the best!

[etmaul]

This is still my absolute favorite game of all time!

[gallivanter99]

It's called sarcasm slick; as in people watching this are more concerned with the nostalgia and good memories surrounding it rather than hearing your negative gripe about the soundfont quality.

[brybish]

AWE32 rocked in 93 £200 it shoud have lol.but if you can get hold of a orchid game wave, that suported sb16 and midi.

google it..it was a very good card.

[chaxster]

Ha, I was a young 'un when this came out. I remember being stoked by the naughty poster in the barracks. Uh, great game, too!

[gallivanter99]

Maybe not everyone can afford your superbadass future technology.

[slider8585]

hahah this game was so cool! I spent so much time playing this game instead of doing homework....

[PontifexPotens]

Ooh man, this takes me back. Mature game for its time, no doubt.

[KwipperTheBear]

Oh wow. I remember this game.

[doomster1980]

Man! That brings back some good memories!

Used to play this game for hours on end!

Thanks for posting!

[abram730]

WOW thank you for bringing back this memory :)

Nostalgia!!!

I loved this game so much!!!

I bought it both add ons and then the cd as it was worth not putting in all those disks to install it lol

Any places to DL it, as I lost my copies in a move?

[Watcher3223]

I still have the manual (Sudden Death Magazine) and it was cool. It's interesting reading the timeline of past events leading up to the time that the game takes place, particularly now since the predictions didn't exactly come true; all of the states are still part of the U.S. and there are no mercenary squadrons in Turkey.

If you had the game in the form of floppies, 8 or 9 of them from last recollection, you needed the manual to get past a quiz for the copy protection during the installation.

[chillyche]

yeah, but wasn't there something about a second Iraq war in the manual?

[Watcher3223]

Yes. In 1994, Iraq admits to a nuclear weapons capability, which prompts condemnation and authorization of force by the UN. The U.S. engages Iraq from Saudi Arabia under "Operation Fallout."

But, the strike results in collateral damage, including civilian casualties, which results in a Mid-eastern Jihad against Western nations and an oil embargo. The U.S. strikes Iraq and Iran in retaliation while addressing the oil shortage by drilling the ANWR.

[chillyche]

Huh, yeah, I just re-read the manual (in pdf form -- my originals are somewhere at my mother's house, buried forever, I reckon). It's interesting how they got a lot of the themes right, even if the events were way off the money. ANWR is constantly on the verge of being opened for drilling, collateral damage in the mideast fuels anti-american sentiment, and domestically, the US spent the last 7 years cracking down on ALF and ELF and environmentalist groups. Nobody's seceded yet though...

[adventureicecream]

WOW I had to upgrade my 386SX from 2 meg of ram to four just to play this game. The 40 meg hard drive also took a beating.

Who else remembers the awesome manual that came with this game?

It's still my favorite game to date.

Good times, good times.

[mbdelorenzo]

I know, I wish they would re-release it. *sigh* I can't get it to work on my XP machine

[hodiso]

Try using DosBox, works perfectly :-)

[digofabu]

How i use that?? I have this game in original CD (have another games together) and i play them in Win95..but i cant run in Xp =(

[Watcher3223]

I remember that this game required quite a bit of conventional memory in order to run.

I remember putting a lot of effort into tweaking the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files to optimize memory usage by the drivers, including enabling the use of upper memory so I could load the mouse and CD-ROM drivers there, freeing up conventional memory.

Plus, "Strike Commander" made use of its own protected memory driver, so it didn't need an extended memory driver (EMM386.EXE) to run.

[Watcher3223]

Hmm. I said that EMM386.EXE was an extended memory driver. It's an expanded memory driver; HIMEM.SYS is the extended memory driver.

[HardWarUK]

I remember the manual - because I still own this game - box manual and all!!!!! So glad iam a game collector/hoarder as well as a 20+ year gamer! :)

[dadestor]

I couldn't run it on my pc in that time :(

[stevenchack]

This is one on the top of the list along with Privateer

[lotaloi]

where can I get this game again I used to play it borrowing from my friend. Pl tell me.

[Canderous92A]

Nostalgia! Very first flight sim I played. Got through the main campaign, but never got through the expansion. Good times. :-)

[n00per0]

Thank you, I love this game!!!

[Gasdrinker]

such an amazing game, this and Ultima 8

[BlindJester]

Oh man that was such an awesome game.

[lupus4]

Awesome. The games of the 90's were much cooler than the games of today.

[Feijnhorn]

@lupus4 This game is awesome. The only newer Game who is quiete good as Strike Commander and Pacific Strike is "Ace Combat 6". This game has got a great Story and really good graphics. I love it, like i loved Strike Commander and Pacific Strike.

[nimibiantribesman]

this game was the shit back in the day!!!!

[TassTimes]

Just why were all "american planes" painted in Israel desert camo? USA F-16 werent painted that way - at that point in time.

By the way, the playability came first in SCCD. I remember dodging missiles and at one time I ran out of fuel and so calculated trajectory I could still manage to land, tens of miles out the runway, almost stalling the plane.

As it wasn't meant to be a simulator, so that I even felt sorry for the enemies, because each one down meant that the endgame was closer.

[elomis]

erm. Because you weren't playing as the USA? You were playing as mercenaries, maybe you bought the planes off Israel? Maybe you took it to Al'asad's Thrifty Spray and coated the hardware in pearlescent local vogue? Factual recollection beats military know-how every day of the week ;-)

[blableblu07]

that game is so cool!

i loved it! must play!!

[finyard]

Games without storyline and cinematics are mostly boring.

"I'm a soldier, not a murderer"

That's right...

[ArmaLite556]

This is the best game ever, i soo wish they would do a remake, the mix of simulation and RPG is amazing, for all thoose who remember C:\SCCD in DOS ROCKS!!! run it in DOSBOX, i still got the original CD :)

[anandvvn]

Those who have played this game need not tell that this is a best game. Well those who have not played it, the game is as great as this video. I still play this game on PC using DOS BOX latest version.

[entertainmentgeekly]

This was a fantastic game. Loved it so much. Wing Commander is closer to the heart, but this was wonderful.

[FOXHOUND86]

I always wanted to play this game, but could never get it to work on my PC!

[WeissVogel]

same here...the one i downloaded from underdogs was the original disc version, which i couldn't quite figure out on my laptop. Dang, i wish i bought the CD and the Kilrathi Saga when i had the chance!

[life4blood]

ROFL i use to tplay this. never used rockets or anything. jus the cannon, ah good times

[GZahos]

best flying game. ever. Please note i wrote game not simulator.

[metube1120]

I havn't played this game in years. I think i played the entire game without turning on the radar (explains why the amrams never tracked). Easier to just shoot them down with cannon.

[insva22xe8]

The first and the best ever !

[Ssangmoon]

I wonder why today's game companies doesn't Remake this one. mmm, thanks for sharing.

[xXxRadicalDreamerxXx]

I want to play this on Win XP so bad!!! :(

[anandvvn]

Get DOS BOX latest it'll work I think it is 7 or something, just check

[GryphonGuitar]

Greatest game ever.

[wok2005]

וואלק איזה ימים טובים אלה היו

אוהד מים המלח

[wok2005]

this is the most playble game in israel in the years 94-93

[gonaone]

Yes, good point!