Played the C64 version obsessively as a child. Proudest moment, flying home a missile took out my engine and I made a flameout landing 😆

Man love hearing the Amiga disk drive stepping... I am going to fire mine up again soon... I love my 500...even to this day... one of the best machines ever.. I may have to revisit this game

Remember night time flying was really beautiful in that game

that loading noise .... i`m back in time to 1993 ! :)

Amiga was the gaming platform for 3D-games with vector graphics, long before Nintendo and Sega.

A 30 year old simulator for planes that are still being used today. Who' would've thought that.

I used to play this with a Null Modem cable on 2 Amigas 500, defying my brother and friends in dogfight duels... Sometimes I brought my A500 at home of a friend who wanted to be a jet pilot when a young man and he had renouncing for health problems, and we played entire war campaigns with my A500 and his A2000. He was damn good shooting me down any mission... 😅

Wow. Thanks for the memories. The hours I spent on this, attacking targets on the ground and trying to dodge missiles while desperately firing off chaff and flares, then the nerve wracking worry of trying to land in one piece. I'll have to dig out my Amiga sometime.

Now I remember, there was 2 different versions of Falcon, the F-16 Falcon and the F-16 Combat Pilot, from different developers. Both was great, but F-16 Combat Pilot got a few features that was exceptional at that time, like preplaning waypoints.

Nice to see the true frame rate of games like this back in the day.

Loved this game on the Spectrum & it played a big part in my upgrading to an Amiga. Classic

This game looked amazing to 11 year old me ! Sadly i didn't get an Amiga until 1992 and had a C64 at this time

I used to go to a computer shop and browse at the games. I couldn't afford an amiga but the game box graphics blew me away. Love it.

Loved that game. The combat was excellent, but landing was so hard.

I can't believe how transfixed I was to this video - thanks so much for uploading - F16 CP was my first real constant obsession.. All the video misses, is the classic red n green night missions! Thanks again for bringing so much back for me 👍

Remember the Amstrad port was obsessed mainly due to how difficult it was to achieve anything on it!

Very good and also ... very lucky. I remember (1993) when I was playing with this game, that the targets to be destroyed first were the "EW" radars. In fact, the enemy took great advantage, if you went up to more than 500 feet, the radar "EW", you were identified and you get on him a lot of enemy aircraft ... it was useless to shoot them down because once knocked down one, in others arrived, launching air-to-air missiles continuously. Generally this was enough to take down your plane, but if you could save them by luck, there were the ground-to-air missiles that could have destroyed your plane. When something hit your plane, this was enough to destroy it, so that you managed to survive an impact of an enemy shot was lucky in luck! Anyway, my congratulations on the end of your mission.

Used to play this 'linked up' with my brother on two Atari St's. Good times!

Best moment for me was landing with no hydraulics, no engine, and coming out of a tight face to ground, oh with no undercarrigge!! Best moment ever!!

This is on the A500 mini coming out, can't wait to replay it!

That was Epic!

Hours spent on this game/sim in my Amiga, i was amazed back then. Some decades later i´m doing this in VR. Go figure.

Spend days and days paying this game on ma Amigas 500 and 1200.

Used to play this system link on our Atari Ste's 👍

Had this game for our Tandy1000. Was a pain in the butt to get to work.

Great sim!

We thought this was the best back then. Rs232 cable and we would fight all night. Haha

...and it was so real.....at this time. 😎😁

I remember playing this against a friend head-to-head on two Atari STs linked together. After firing off all our missiles and machine guns without success, we ended up crashing into each other and declaring a draw 😅

Wow epic mission, well done! I'm trying to get to grips with the 16 bit version of this game, but find the enemy jets too much to handle - I use up all my AMRAAMs on them & still don't kill them normally. Any tips? They are so hard compared to the spectrum version...

I also played the sh!t out of this, i loved it. Very immersive.

Oh yeah, the copy protection as IFF code. Genius! Remember that now

I had this game, but it wasn’t an original copy ;) and I could never understand if I was doing it right. I was only 12 or 13 so it might have been a bit too complex, as well. It was really quite advanced, with landing guidance instruments and navigation planning etc, compared to the F-18 game. I eventually gave up on it, but not for want of trying. I always felt that an original game with manual might have explained it a bit more (but we weren’t wealthy, and I couldn’t see it in the shops anyway). A shame really. I’d love to give it another go, now that I am much older and went through military pilot training!

Played this on atari st, thought it was pretty good.

I need this game back in my life. Did anyone ever get a kill with the canon?

Strange this came after Spectrum Holobyte’s Falcon - it looks to be vastly inferior

i know the pc version was inferior ,but was the Atari ST exactly the same as Amiga??

I really want to have success at proper flight simulators like this. Could you give me any pointers?

Good old days of proper home computer combat flight sims. Where you just chose a mission, set your loadout and went for it, ranking up your pilot career. Nowadays they spend too much on cinematics and tie the whole thing together in a daft storyline about some twit trying take over the world. Hello Ace Combat....

@1:46 At the top, they labelled the sidewinder as an AIM-120. Oooops.

Android 🎉

Sink rate too high...still hunts me to this day...

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