Retro Dogfight
Three old guys talk old flight sims.
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Welcome, my friends, to this month’s episode of Retro Dogfight! This time, Denny, Chase and I discuss Chase’s favorite flight sim, MicroProse’s 1998 magnum opus, European Air War. This is a fascinating sim that I had to come to grips with, my own self. Originally I didn’t play it much because I unfairly compared it to 1942: The Pacific Air War. Once I put that aside, I was shocked at what an amazing sim this was. All this and more in this episode! In the next episode, we’ll look at the surprisingly small amount of flight sims focusing on flying legend Chuck Yeager, including: Chuck Yeager’s Ad
Welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight! This time, the three of us discuss Denny’s favorite flight sim, and my favorite WWII sim, 1942: The Pacific Air War, which you can get on Steam and GOG. If you’re unaware, this sim covers much of the air war in the Pacific in 1942, and it’s a game you can play for years, thanks to massive career modes, tons of single missions and a dynamic admiral mode. This is such a wonderful sim, even if it is over thirty years old. Next time, we’re going to talk about Chase’s favorite flight sim: European Air WarWhich you can also get on Steam and GOG. Thank you s
Hello my friends, and welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight. Side note, this is the first episode we’ve recorded with Riverside! It’s a lovely web-based platform that records from each of our machines individually, so hopefully we’ll sound even better moving forward! Now, to the episode itself! Since we’ve eschewed going chronologically, and because my brain has been mush of late, I decided that we should cover our favorite sims, starting with mine, 1991’s Gunship 2000, which you can snag on Steam and GOG along with the original! Now, I love this sim, love love love. It’s not only an amazi
Hey friends, welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight! In this episode, Chase, Denny and I tackle something a little bit different. Back in 1997, Digital Image Design released F-22: Air Dominance Fighter, the much-anticipated follow-up to my personal favorite jet sim, EF2000. There was a bit of a hullabaloo at the time as this game shipped with static missions, whereas EF2000 had a lovely dynamic campaign. It did, however, lead to the lovely Total Air War, a year or so later. Now, all that said, you can imagine our surprise when F-22: ADF, out of the blue, popped up on Steam a few months ago,
Hello my friends, and welcome this episode of Retro Dogfight! First off, I have to apologize for my audio. Just before recording, I discovered that Windows had, for some reason I still don’t understand, lowered my gain in the Windows audio settings. I only figured it out about a week or so AFTER recording this, but for this particular episode, my audio is a bit soft, and for that, I apologize. Now, for the episode itself, we tackle the remaining two MicroProse F-15 Strike Eagle games, namely: F-15 Strike Eagle IIF-15 Strike Eagle IIIIt’s fascinating how different these two games are, and as su
Welcome, my friends, to this episode of Retro Dogfight! Today, Chase, Denny and I will look back at one of Dynamix’s earliest flight sims, and its sequel: A-10 Tank KillerSilent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer IIThese games came out almost a decade apart, but you wouldn’t know it from how they played. It’s kind of a shame. I had so much fun, back in the day and now, playing the first game, so we’re left wondering…what happened with its sequel?! It leads to a fun discussion where we have a mostly fun time kinda crapping on the second game, and deservedly so, but you’ll have to listen for the rest. On
Hello, my friends, and welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight! This time, as it’s the holiday season when we recorded this one, Chase, Denny, and I took a break from playing a game to answer your questions, and my goodness, did you folks have a lot of awesome questions. Thank you so, so much to everyone who sent in so many amazing questions. We had so much fun answering them. So much so that this ended up being our longest episode yet, at almost two hours long! We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we had recording it! Next up on the show, we’re gonna tackle Dynamix’s classic A-10 Ta
Hello, my friends, and welcome to this latest episode of Retro Dogfight! In this episode, we look at the seminial massively multiplayer flight sim series that began in 1998, the Air Warrior series! This includes: Air WarriorAir Warrior IIAir Warrior IIII learned a LOT during this episode. For example, did you know this was the first graphical massively multiplayer game? Before this, it was all text-based games like popular multi-user dungeons, or MUDs. I had no idea! Even though these were primarily multiplayer games, there’s a lot of single-player fun to be had here, and if you have patience,
Hello, my friends, and welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight! This one is a doozy, my friends! Last episode, we looked at the much-beloved Amiga-only F/A-18 Interceptor by Robert Dinnerman. I wasn’t aware of this at the time, but he then went on to create the long-running and popular Jetfighter series, which spanned seven games over seventeen years! So, we decided to take on the daunting task of not just talking about one game in the Jetfighter series, but the ENTIRE SERIES. This includes: JetFighter: The AdventureJetFighter II: Advanced Tactical FighterJetFighter IIIJetFighter: Full BurnJ
Hello my friends, and welcome to this latest episode of Retro Dogfight! I first have to make an apology. There was a heat wave going on in Los Angeles as we recorded this, so I had a fan going directly on me. I tried my best to hide it, but you can hear it a little bit whenever I talk, so, apologies on that. For the actual episode itself, welcome to the first episode in which we talk about only one sim! The legendary: F/A-18 Interceptor Which came out in 1988 for the Amiga. Now, I never owned an Amiga, but both Chase and Denny were deep, deep, deep into the Amiga ecosphere, so not only are the
Welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight, my friends! Today we’re talking about two classic MicroProse sims that are near and dear to my heart: F-19 Stealth Fighter (Steam, GOG)F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 (Steam, GOG)F-19 was a seminal flight sim for me personally, as it was the first combat-oriented flight sim I ever purchased, and played it for years after its release. It honestly spoiled me for combat flight sims going forward. Its sequel/remake/refresh, F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0, came out three years later, in 1991, and I skipped it back in the day, because I figured,
Hey friends, welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight! In this episode, we’ll continue our MicroProse lovefest by looking at three early MicroProse classics, including: F-15 Strike Eagle Gunship Project Stealth Fighter These games are much beloved, early entries in MicroProse’s classic catalog, but were they beloved by us? You’ll have to listen to find out! Hint: Maybe yes, maybe no! Next time, we’ll continue our look at some earlier MicroProse titles — and some of my personal favorites — F-19 Stealth Fighter and F-117A Nighthawk: Stealth Fighter 2.0! I am particularly excited about this beca
Hello my friends, and welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight! In this episode, Denny, Chase and I look at some of the earliest MicroProse sims, namely: Hellcat AceSpitfire AceMiG Alley AceThese games are some of the earliest, if not the earliest, in-cockpit, “3D” and they’re an amazing time capsule of what these early computers can do, with all the issues that come with them. You’ll find that we were impressed with what these games were able to achieve with such limited hardware back in the day, but they were still kind of rough to play. Next month, we’re continuing the MicroProse love with
Hello my friends, and welcome back to Retro Dogfight! In this episode, Denny, Chase, and I will go back to the beginning of our venerable genre, looking at some very, very, VERY early text-based flight sim games from the late 1970s and early 1980s! The games we’re looking at this time are: B-1 Nuclear BomberComputer Air CombatEaglesThese games originated in wargaming and board gaming, so they are very, VERY grognardy. Despite this, two of the games turned out to be a lot of fun, while one was an utter pile of garbage. You’ll need to listen to the episode to figure out which is which. Next time
Hello, my friends, and welcome to the second episode of Retro Dogfight! This week, based on an idea from Denny, we’re jumping a little bit out of order — as I hope to typically keep things chronological for my own sanity — and coming in hot with a look at some of the most beloved classic games in the genre: The World War II sims by Lucasfilm. Specifically: Battlehawks 1942Their Finest Hour: The Battle of BritainSecret Weapons of the LuftwaffeIn which I make a daring — and admittedly somewhat embarrassing — confession regarding these games. We had a very, very fun time talking about these old s
Hello, my friends, and welcome to this first episode of the Retro Dogfight (I call it “Retro Dogfighter” in the actual show because I’m a little nervous, please forgive me.) podcast! In this podcast I, along with my friends Chase and Denny, will look back at the classic simulators of old and revisit them for the sake of nostalgia and posterity. In this first episode, we’ll introduce ourselves, our background with combat simulations, talk about why we love them so, and ramble a bit about the genre in general. It’s a shorter discussion than we usually will have, but hopefully by the end you’ll h
