Fighter Bomber (amiga)

I'm demonstrating the game by completing the first mission. One of few authentic flight simulators I've tried. I don't have much experience in these games so can't make comparisons about controls and such. There's a "designer" option on the mission menu which is a rather limited, but allows to design custom missions. It's possible to refuel in air during missions, but I haven't tried that.

I made cuts in the video during the mission at places where there's just idle time and included the aircraft select, aircraft arming and mission screens. This mission took little over 12min to complete. Landing looks a bit funny, but at least I didn't crash.

You can pause the video if you want to read the details about my aircraft or the mission briefing. Online manual can be found at Lemonamiga.

This game was emulated on default A500 config (how I used to play it) so framerate is somewhat crappy.

Developer: Vektor Grafix
Publisher: Activision (1990)

http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=1401

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[JohnnyMindcrime]

It's probably incorrect to say this was an "authentic" flight simulator, I seem to recall that most of the Microprose flight sims like F-15 Strike Eagle were a lot more authentic in feel. But this WAS great fun to play because you could pick it up and start flying around in minutes.

[einokeino303]

@JohnnyMindcrime What I mean by authentic is that you need more than a joystick for for controls opposed to arcade type games such as Afterburner and Wings. I know there are more complex and realistic sims even for Amiga. I didn't impy this game was military training approved :)

[JohnnyMindcrime]

@einokeino303 Please don't take it as a criticism as it wasn't meant to be so. :-) It is a very good game from what I remember, I played it for many hours and I really should try it once again in UAE. But the point I was trying to make was that because it isn't a true flight sim, it's very easy to pick up quickly and just have fun playing it. There are a number of flight sims I have tried where I just gave up quite quickly for being too difficult to start.

[einokeino303]

@JohnnyMindcrime I didn't take your comment as a criticism and constructive critisism is always welcome! I tried to explain what I was thinking when I wrote the description. Since english is not my native language I sometimes use less appropriate word / expression when lacking a better one. Thanks for your comments :)

[Slurfs]

One of the first games I played on the Amiga. Great sound effects however the game was a bit 'laggy' so I got hooked on F/A-18 interceptor instead ;)

[einokeino303]

@Slurfs Yeah, unfortunately most 3D games on Amiga 500 were really slow, still tried to play games such as F1 GP and Gunship 2000 back then. Many 3D games run much better on faster Amigas.

[kirbsnz]

In this game I went to full altitude, like 30000 ft, went into a dive , pulled out, I cleared the ground by 5 feet.

[dazgy01]

Haha brings back good memories

[HardWarUK]

@einokeino303 I played this on C64 and Amiga and the frames were a tad quicker on the C64, albeit it used wire-frame graphics! Some games were better on the C64 only because of lazy make-money-quick C64 conversions - same for PC conversions. This meant the Amiga always struggled when it shouldn't have!

[henhute6]

If you wanted to avoid enemy fighters, stay at 50 feet altitude. :) This game had interesting plane variety, but Flight of The Intruder was better simulation.

[KingGeorgesHares79]

This was my first ever simulation experience. To get that tent then fly east of Rapid City into Ellsworth and land the plane was a great feeling.

[TheCabal]

Never understood why every enemy was faster than me = didn't know how to engage the afterburner!