Chocks Away Acorn Games Video Archive A3010/TV Card

A video of Chock Away running on my A3010. Chocks Away was a WW1 flight sim and was originally released in 1990 by the 4th Dimension.

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[hoggler555]

Well I'm proud to say that the author Andrew is my brother, who went on to design Stunt Racer and Starfighter 3000 along with Tim Parry. The only contribution I made to Chocks Away! was to write some of the mission briefings and do a small amount of testing. The days of a single developer making a major impact are long gone and Andrew now works in the games industry for a large studio. Regards Dave Hutchings

[peetvanpeebles]

@hoggler555

And rightfully so, SR 2K, SF 3K and Chocks are three of the very best games on any system never mind just the Acorn :)

[peetvanpeebles]

I've got my A3010 connected to a tv card in my PC :)

[alunmillard]

This was probably my favourite Acorn game! Did anyone else do the driving around on the ground trick? If you sorta tilted the wings a bit on the runway, you could stay on the ground

[zeocen]

I used to play this game as a child, I must have racked up hours upon hours in this game and I never once knew how to land properly or what the actual objective of the game was.

And it was the best fun ever!

[xxxKINGFROGxxx]

@hoggler555 hey Dave, or anyone who might be reading this... can someone please tell me the controls, as i can't find a list of the controls anywhere!!!!

[xxxKINGFROGxxx]

our school acorn had a demo of this back in 91, i used to love the plane crash animation.

hey am i nasty person if I found an emulator for the Acorn and downloaded this game?

[scuffer1983]

thanks for this, loved this game. Think I once clocked up about 15 plane kills - I remember to this day how buzzing I was. Was it the Fokka plains or something the red ones that you got loads of points for for shooting them down? I used to get well into it after a while!

[DVDfeverGames]

I haven't played this game, but there's something special about old games from the 80s and 90s

[thediamondjames]

@hoggler555 AWESOME! To date, this is still the finest dogfighting game for sheer satisfaction and target rich environments I have ever played. I fondly remember blasting a bombardment balloon out of the air before ramming a tridecker

[sascott]

Absolutely brilliant game. Played this to death, and the 2 player dogfights were great fun!

[jsuryefe]

i spent a lot of time playing this awesome game. might just try to fire up an emulator...

[fennessy1980]

@hoggler555

Thanks to your brother. I spent many great months playing this game. The missions were so cool.....i was only 5 or 6 but remember it like it was yesterday!