#2849473 - 08/28/09 03:11 AM
Dear Santa,
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For Christmas, I would like: - an Airco DH2 - a Fokker Eindecker I've been very good this year, as far as you know. Your friend, Hedgehog
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#2849591 - 08/28/09 09:27 AM
Re: Dear Santa,
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It'll all be over by Christmas ....
Cheers Stuntie.
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#2849606 - 08/28/09 10:22 AM
Re: Dear Santa,
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Hedgehog,
What about the Moran Bullet?
One problem with such a gift is it would require a career mode that was more than some canned missions strung together in a lifeless world........
Cheers,
Teddy Bär
One of the stupidest things in game design is the lack of uncertainty given to the player
"beatings will continue until morale improves" brought to you by Ubisoft DRM!
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#2849625 - 08/28/09 11:12 AM
Re: Dear Santa,
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The main reason I'd like to see these two planes is a bit of personal nostalgia. Way back when... okay, maybe not 1916, but in the early 1980's... before my first Commodore 64, I had an air combat game called Ace of Aces. No, not the Ace of Aces you're thinking about. This was a book-based game. Each player got a small picture book, each page showing a view from your cockpit of the opponent's plane, relative to you. The bottom of each page provided a series of maneuvers you could choose from. Each player selected his next maneuver, announced the code page number to the other player, and by some fantastic game design, each player ended up on a new page that depicted the relative situation resulting from the combination of the selected maneuvers. If the page showed your opponent in your gunsights, you got a point for a hit. It really was brilliant, and simple to play once you'd tried a couple of turns. It was portable... you could play it anywhere. The version I had pitted - you guessed - the Airco DH2 against the Fokker Eindecker. http://maverick.brainiac.com/aoa/aoa1.htmlI'd love to 'refly' some of those battles that, in the days before computer flight sims, only took place with the aid of a picture book and my imagination.
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#2849626 - 08/28/09 11:15 AM
Re: Dear Santa,
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#2849630 - 08/28/09 11:29 AM
Re: Dear Santa,
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Yup! You never wanted to end up on page 223 (unless you were trying to escape)... ...because that meant you had lost sight of each other. Then you had to start back on page 170... ...the neutral starting position for each encounter. By the way, does this original game advertisement poster remind you original Rise Of Flight v1.0 owners of anything??
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#2849643 - 08/28/09 12:00 PM
Re: Dear Santa,
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WWBrian, I've been searching for my 'Flying Machines' version, the only one I had, without success. I got in a bit of trouble one time when I was in the US Navy ... I was in the submarine service, stationed aboard the nuclear sub USS Tecumseh as a reactor operator. The mid-watches in the reactor control room got pretty long and boring. I had brought my Ace of Aces books aboard and taken them on watch to play against the electrical operator. Except I left them there, 'hidden' in the CRDM fuse box. Perhaps not quite hidden well enough. The Engineering Officer found them the next day. He was cool about it. He gave them back with a warning to keep them out of the engineering spaces.
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#2849907 - 08/28/09 05:43 PM
Re: Dear Santa,
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My brother-in-law and I would have great fun with that.
"Um, one six seven." "Sixteen." "TWENTY!" we'd both shout, and then say budda-budda-budda.
Those two books have got to be the most clever thing I've ever seen outside of a computer, btw.
The opinions of this poster are largely based on facts and portray a possible version of the actual events. More dumb stuff at http://www.darts-page.comFrom Laser: "The forum is the place where combat (real time) flight simulator fans come to play turn based strategy combat."
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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