Thank you so much for putting this Gunship vid on You Tube. I was 12 years old when my dad bought me GUNSHIP. It was my all time favorite game of all the games I had and it brings back so many memories. A friend and I both loved it and used to challenge each other to various missions. I used to ponder back then (more than 23 years ago) what graphics might be like in the future. I used to dream of today's 'smooth' flowing high detail graphics as a possible reality... But we really had to use...
@@lewstone5430 Thank you. You called me sir. What rank did you achieve? LOL :) I remember that two of the regions highest levels were 'Extreme' risk/danger, and the other two were 'Ultimate'. So it must have been on one of the 'Ultimate' missions that I got the CMOH and probably by blowing the daylights out of everything. I do remember getting it before the DSC or the Purple Heart and before reaching full Colonel. Another memory from the game was being chased by a Hind and out of both cannon and sidewinders. I went flat-out, did a fast turn, raised the nose when I saw the Hind and with only FFARs left; I fired two (remember they used fire as pairs?) at more-or-less point blank range and blow it to bits! Yee-haw! :)
I used to play Gunship all the time in the late 80's and early 90's. Sold my C64 in the early 90's. Just got another one a few months ago and just bought a copy of Gunship yesterday. I miss playing it. It was fun. I had one pilot, KIA, a Captain, with 4 PH's, 1 CMOH and a few other sorted awards. Flew 8 missions before getting killed, received a DFC posthumously. I love this game
I had a friend whom was in the military with me, whom had a part time job in a game store....of course illegally. He GAVE me a complete new copy of this game ( as well as a bunch of other games) for my C64. Never asked for one red cent, neither ! I spent alot of time playing it....especially when I retired from military service. Thanks for posting this.
Same here. Not to toot my own horn, but I got rather good at this game as well. Became an expert on how to crash land without problems, usually rather soft landings too, when I did. Awesome game. :) Another good military game for the C64 that was quite nice was Red Storm Rising.
Got to remember that up until this point all we had was defender, space invaders and pac man and all at a quarter per shot for a few minutes game time. This was revolutionary, land the chopper, auto rotate and live? Wow,.. the memories.. I had all the best titles, silent service, airborne ranger, this, and who can forget the last ninja.. all super addictive and fun games.
I remember "playing" this "game" in the 80s when I was like 12-13 years old. Honestly, I only enjoyed watching the intro and hoping that I would be like an arcade game with that cool helicopter and not the fine simulator it was. Anyway, back in those days those were the cool games young adults like my uncle (how was +30) would play.
This thing was amazing back in the day. It might not look it at first but all those gauges and lights actually work, physics, even the cannon had recoil. You might have to fight losing your rotor. I still don't know how they packed all that into 64K.
Its graphics may not have been much, even at the time but just think about this: it was the ultimate roleplaying game! I remember a dogfight up against a Russian Hind over Europe, it was flying circles around me but I kept pounding it with my 30 mm chaingun. The Hind was just two triangles put together but still it was a desperate fight. "You abandoned your craft behind enemy lines while being seriously wounded. In the chaos of war, you completely disappear. You're missing in action (MIA)."
Remember playing this sim. Sooo much had to buy another one because the floppy got worn out. Plus, if you played it on the 128 the flack were totally very fierce, and the Hinds got smarter each time you shot one down, another one knew where you were, but also came in a different direction, faster, and could turn very fast.
... our imagination back then. The fact was (as you know) computers just could not handle the pace of our imagination... These days, it's the other way around perhaps. I also (for reference) remember taking a trip to a local weather station. The guy on the tour showed us their computer (it was the size of two fridges). He stood proudly beside it and said to us "This has TWO GIGABYTES" of memory....
In probably my dorkiest gaming moment. . . My cousin was co-pilot (on keyboard) and I was pilot (joystick). It was actually pretty awesome coordinating weapon selection and evasion with a co-pilot.
@vintagemanV Believe me, anyone who uploads this game after so long definitely has passion for it, and I have no doubt you have flying skills to match. Flying that machine was crazy while under fire. Of all the vintage games I think Gunship would kick the butt of the modern gamer the worst.
Haha, 25 minutes to load a game. I remember it well. One of my favourite games of all time. I used to skive off school pretending i was sick so i could play it. Took me a LONG time to win the Congressional Medal of Honor on Ultimate settings.
I've seen soldiers get ArComm's for far less. One of my helo crewchief buddies in '88 considered this so realistic that he would wear his flight helmet and Nomex gloves while he played.
I kicked so much ass at this game, it was unreal. Hours and hours of playing! I forget my highest rank, but it was up there, like a Colonel or something. I could take out most targets on high difficulty with my machine gun and FFAR missles. The trick was getting in close to the tanks at low altitude, where they could hit you as well. Hinds were taken out if you fly low, hide behind a mountain and wait for them to come around the corner & blast'em up close. Loved this game! :-D
Thanks :)) If I remember right, it was the only "full" simulator of combat helicopter on C=64. There are TOMAHAWK from DiD but I did not like it cause I found it too close to Fighter pilot .... Anyway, it's MicroProse, champions of the simulation at this old time ;)
The accompanying manual, together with friendly and enemy vehicles and tanks was so good, I got most of my military hardware info from this great booklet. BTR-60: if the USSR had a congress it would long ago dismissed this monstrosity. DIVAD ("Sergeant York"): fortunately US congress did shoot down this turkey after millions had been wasted. Merkava Tank (Israel): an innovative if strange, design. It is slow and heavily armoured, contradicting both NATO's and Warsaw Pact's speed doctrine.
Some more sound advice: always carry at least a pair of Sidewinders when flying in Europe against 1st line troops. In Gunship 2000 of course they had them replaced with Stingers which were shorter ranged but you could carry twice the load compared to Sidewinders. Better advice: stay low low low and take out any target with the trusty 30 mm chaingun. When in doubt, get the hell out with all jammers on and flares flying. And don't forget evasive maneuvering AWAY from the target.
This sim i played till unconsciousness. It also cause me to learn sid-assembler, to understand the copy protection scheme, after the datasette messed the tape up and had to buy a new cassette. Finally, i was able to copy to an Akai HiFi VHS videorecorder, with all covers opened up. What a mess. Hail to MicroProse!
Some other excellent titles of about the same time: Raid Over Moscow, incredibly fun arcade game and incredibly difficult if you wanted to get all of your pilot/commandoes out alive at the highest difficulty level.
Don't think you're the only one who made Colonel with the MOH, DSM, SS, BSV, ACM, NDS medal and all campaign medals with accompanying AMs, of course one or two PHs. Truth be told, you got a campaign medal after flying only three missions, the Air Medal for another three. But flying on Ultimate settings in either Europe or the Middle East still was tricky business. I played this game for so long and late into the nights that I developed computer combat fatigue :-D
It looks primative now but at the time Wow! I spent hours on this. It seemed so real and smooth at the time. I think it was on a tape and I used an action replay cart and put it on a floppy. Those where the days......
THAT's why you only get an Army Commendation Medal, even with both the Primary and Secondary Targets annihilated while other enemies took moderate casualties. If this was actually played at Hard level, I'd think you would have received a BSV or SS and some nice damage compliments of the Warsaw Pact's AAA.
Lol. The start of the music is so perfect. =) I like it. Btw what has the countersign to do (I figured all the contols out and the saying of text with a dictionary)? But I never figured that out. I played Gunship as child alot, but never could quit a mission the right way. Maybe because the game was cracked? I cant remember? Btw, i like your vids about old simulators. ...oh memories awake...
@the1log The joys of the game on tape right? The first time for me as it was on tape and what a joy when my floppy disk drive 1541 has arrived (many small jobs to students during holidays)
Well, heh, anyone being addicted to this game became 'rather good at it' no doubt. I remember taking out the enemy HQ in Western Europe, using up all my ammo, then getting the hell out at full power and about knee-high altitude, being shot at by T-74s machineguns! They couldn't hurt me and I was flying too low and fast to hit them, but talk about an adrenalin rush. Of course, I got the MOH that time. But one other time I was really sleepy, shot up my own troops and was down to peeling potatoes.
I had it on the amstrad, I was only 7 to 8 years old. I had the templatle that fit around the keyboard but I could never manage to take off, and after waitng 40 minutes for it to load made me never play it again.
Hi AudieHolland, I already answered this question. I wanted to play as I played on my C64 (or Amiga for others videos) but with emulator that's impossible. Seting the video was already done and I do not have time to start over. The purpose of the video is not to show that I'm the best but just recall good memories. ;o)
@OmegaWolf666 It was the time when hobbyists were making games for hobbyists. Bill Stealey was a fighter pilot, it had to play for realism. The evidence is that their last simulator Falcon 4.0 is from 1999 and is still the most compet today's. When MICROPROSE died, the world of simulation has lost something.
@couerl We had the chance to experience the beginnings. I think our old games are better than today's but not by the graphics but for the fun. They were enthusiasts for enthusiasts now, it's just business. For games, I still have all trees and they work well ;0P
I would like to know if Daniel Bryan got his music from this game. I know the song is much much older but something tells me he or Wwe people who gave it to him got it from this game.
@dobravery (Following) ... to make the corrections were on the edge of the impossible. I was therefore forced to switch to easy mode:0( My video was done a few times and as the first part (choice of Difficulty and briefing) were already made I kept it like that. I do not pretend to suggest anything, I just want to share my passion for flight simulation :0)
@dobravery Hi, You're right, I've made this video in flight simplified and I'll tell you why. All my videos are made because I still have the original game and the machine home. I'm a fan of flight simulation since my Commodore 64. The video was made with an emulator and I've wanted to play like I play with my C64. Unfortunately, with the PC joysticks of today, it was impossible to handle the keyboard too. Let me explain, in realistic mode the joystick responded late....
Hi NeilRoy65 I must be honest, when I made this video, I wanted to do as I played on my Commodore 64 but with one emulator and joystick from now it was impossible. So,the video was made in easy mode. Options such as video was already made (not the courage to start all over again), I left it, that's why you see hard difficulty.
Thanks tierfuehrer2 :0) For the simulators,I've always used the original because there was often little tricks like that. And also, I was certain of having all the keys on the keyboard to play. :0) @+++
Now, you contradicted yourself. At the time Gunship came out, we already had Silent Service. From the same company of course but don't say we had nothing that approached Gunship's realism. I'll say this: even though I loved playing Project: Stealth Fighter, it was a bit easier than Gunship. No flying into hills and as long as you turned on your jammers in time, nothing could hit you. Even enemy fighters would not use their cannon in broad daylight. They'd simply fly through you and then: Blam!
How old were you back then? When I was playing this game, I was about 9 or 10. Ah, so you didn't have the manual! You know why you failed? You managed to turn on one or both of the engines but you still needed to engage the rotor...
@Doeff8 Ho yes, I can immagine when I see Falcon 4.0, the last "baby"from Microprose, which dates from 1998 and is still "alive". No simulator has yet been able to dethrone it. Today, may be A-10C that can compete with avionic but for the dynamics campaign,there are still a long way. To believe that today, it's one or the other, Falcon had both with a less powerful PC.
Falcon was "Microprose" only because of corporate buyouts etc so it was MP only in name. Gunship is from the real Microprose which was in it's prime in the 80's.
I take it English was not your native language at the time? Because the "quick take-off" (easy setting) is quite straightforward. Turn on both engines (press 1, 2), engage the rotor (press 3) max up on the collective (press F1 till the collective bar fills completely) and presto, you're airborne. Don't forget pressing forward on the stick a bit and decreasing the collective with a few F7s and one or two F5s or else you're up in the clouds and on everyone's threat indicator. Silent Service was OK
I doubt it. If you were able to hit targets at 11 km distance, you'd be exposed to all enemy anti air plus the odd Hind thrown in. You would have been shot down before your own Hellfires even hit their targets. Real veteran players just use the 30 mm cannon and never go above 50 feet. At least in Europe. What was so realistic about this game was the Hellfires could be jammed but if you fired them 'blind' at the target then locked on just before it reached it, it still had a good chance to hit.
On this machine,I thing it's the best helli sim. There was Tomhawk too but I d'ont like it.... I've searched long to find it on disk. It was more expensive but on cacette it was too long ....
Duh, that's because it's actually easier to lock onto all those armoured targets in Europe. Fighting in South East Asia was demanding in a different way: couldn't carry too much stuff because of moist and heat, I practised firing pairs of FFAR missiles while carrying only half a load of 30 mm. Never cut down on fuel in South East Asia. Never. And it's not exactly good for morale trying to land at a base after a mission, getting fired at by sneaky VC troops at your own base's doorstep!
@russianimp1 This is certain, it will not ace combat, HAWX and more. What's more?, here no HOTAS, Rudder Pedals not just a good old joystick and keyboard. I did (I still have all my old machines), you too can. :0)
I was 6 when I got the amstrad, I had the manual but as I said I was probably about 7 or 8 when I played it. I was better at f16 strike eagle and silent service. Silent service was my thing really. Oh and Dizzy.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not the only one still playing on a real Commodore 64. :0)) I also have many original games or not .... And I have not yet tried: 0 / @+++
@dobravery (Next and last following) Even today's, I play with Jeane'F-18, LOMAC,Open Falcon, IL2, Black Sharck ,.... I've even changed my Cougar in Hotas FCC2. But since you noticed this detail is that you too are a fan of simulations: 0) @+++ Vince ;0)
Over Christmas break in '86-'87, I played this game for 14 hours in one day. I'm amazed the old C=64 didn't catch fire.
Best simulator game in its own era!! Played this game maybe even to much =)
Thank you so much for putting this Gunship vid on You Tube. I was 12 years old when my dad bought me GUNSHIP. It was my all time favorite game of all the games I had and it brings back so many memories. A friend and I both loved it and used to challenge each other to various missions. I used to ponder back then (more than 23 years ago) what graphics might be like in the future. I used to dream of today's 'smooth' flowing high detail graphics as a possible reality... But we really had to use...
Loved this game. Played it for hours. Finally ended up a full Colonel with every medal and campaign ribbon. Happy hours :)
Wow! The CMOH seems impossible to get. I got a DSC though. I bow to you sir.
@@lewstone5430 Thank you. You called me sir. What rank did you achieve? LOL :)
I remember that two of the regions highest levels were 'Extreme' risk/danger, and the other two were 'Ultimate'. So it must have been on one of the 'Ultimate' missions that I got the CMOH and probably by blowing the daylights out of everything. I do remember getting it before the DSC or the Purple Heart and before reaching full Colonel.
Another memory from the game was being chased by a Hind and out of both cannon and sidewinders. I went flat-out, did a fast turn, raised the nose when I saw the Hind and with only FFARs left; I fired two (remember they used fire as pairs?) at more-or-less point blank range and blow it to bits! Yee-haw! :)
Wow!!!! I remember getting this with my C64 in the Christmas of 87!!
I used to play Gunship all the time in the late 80's and early 90's. Sold my C64 in the early 90's. Just got another one a few months ago and just bought a copy of Gunship yesterday. I miss playing it. It was fun.
I had one pilot, KIA, a Captain, with 4 PH's, 1 CMOH and a few other sorted awards. Flew 8 missions before getting killed, received a DFC posthumously.
I love this game
My first copy of gunship was on tape but when I could find it on disk, it was a great relief :0)
Microprose games always had such great setup processes. They really made everything seem real :)
I had a friend whom was in the military with me, whom had a part time job in a game store....of course illegally. He GAVE me a complete new copy of this game ( as well as a bunch of other games) for my C64. Never asked for one red cent, neither ! I spent alot of time playing it....especially when I retired from military service. Thanks for posting this.
Same here. Not to toot my own horn, but I got rather good at this game as well. Became an expert on how to crash land without problems, usually rather soft landings too, when I did. Awesome game. :) Another good military game for the C64 that was quite nice was Red Storm Rising.
Thanks for the memory, I had this on floppy disk, never did finish it all the way to the end tho...
This was my all-time fave...
Got to remember that up until this point all we had was defender, space invaders and pac man and all at a quarter per shot for a few minutes game time. This was revolutionary, land the chopper, auto rotate and live? Wow,.. the memories.. I had all the best titles, silent service, airborne ranger, this, and who can forget the last ninja.. all super addictive and fun games.
One of my favorites back then. Thanks for the vid!
I remember "playing" this "game" in the 80s when I was like 12-13 years old. Honestly, I only enjoyed watching the intro and hoping that I would be like an arcade game with that cool helicopter and not the fine simulator it was. Anyway, back in those days those were the cool games young adults like my uncle (how was +30) would play.
This thing was amazing back in the day. It might not look it at first but all those gauges and lights actually work, physics, even the cannon had recoil. You might have to fight losing your rotor. I still don't know how they packed all that into 64K.
fiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, .......tears of emotion here, mate. I spent a lot of hours playing this game.......tx for remember. sniff, sniff
Its graphics may not have been much, even at the time but just think about this: it was the ultimate roleplaying game!
I remember a dogfight up against a Russian Hind over Europe, it was flying circles around me but I kept pounding it with my 30 mm chaingun. The Hind was just two triangles put together but still it was a desperate fight.
"You abandoned your craft behind enemy lines while being seriously wounded.
In the chaos of war, you completely disappear. You're missing in action (MIA)."
Remember playing this sim. Sooo much had to buy another one because the floppy got worn out. Plus, if you played it on the 128 the flack were totally very fierce, and the Hinds got smarter each time you shot one down, another one knew where you were, but also came in a different direction, faster, and could turn very fast.
Thanks Centau,you teach me something I did not know (maybe top young at that time) but as soon as I can, I reconnect my 128 and I test it :)
centaur1a I burned thru 3 of them because my 1541 would get so darn hot
... our imagination back then. The fact was (as you know) computers just could not handle the pace of our imagination... These days, it's the other way around perhaps. I also (for reference) remember taking a trip to a local weather station. The guy on the tour showed us their computer (it was the size of two fridges). He stood proudly beside it and said to us "This has TWO GIGABYTES" of memory....
In probably my dorkiest gaming moment. . . My cousin was co-pilot (on keyboard) and I was pilot (joystick). It was actually pretty awesome coordinating weapon selection and evasion with a co-pilot.
@vintagemanV Believe me, anyone who uploads this game after so long definitely has passion for it, and I have no doubt you have flying skills to match. Flying that machine was crazy while under fire. Of all the vintage games I think Gunship would kick the butt of the modern gamer the worst.
Haha, 25 minutes to load a game. I remember it well. One of my favourite games of all time. I used to skive off school pretending i was sick so i could play it. Took me a LONG time to win the Congressional Medal of Honor on Ultimate settings.
I've seen soldiers get ArComm's for far less.
One of my helo crewchief buddies in '88 considered this so realistic that he would wear his flight helmet and Nomex gloves while he played.
Loved this game. Can remember you never could admire your medals for more than a second or the game would glitch end.
childhood memories
I kicked so much ass at this game, it was unreal. Hours and hours of playing! I forget my highest rank, but it was up there, like a Colonel or something. I could take out most targets on high difficulty with my machine gun and FFAR missles. The trick was getting in close to the tanks at low altitude, where they could hit you as well. Hinds were taken out if you fly low, hide behind a mountain and wait for them to come around the corner & blast'em up close. Loved this game! :-D
Thanks :))
If I remember right, it was the only "full" simulator of combat helicopter on C=64.
There are TOMAHAWK from DiD but I did not like it cause I found it too close to Fighter pilot ....
Anyway, it's MicroProse, champions of the simulation at this old time ;)
i had this back in the day,, we've come a long long way!
The accompanying manual, together with friendly and enemy vehicles and tanks was so good, I got most of my military hardware info from this great booklet.
BTR-60: if the USSR had a congress it would long ago dismissed this monstrosity. DIVAD ("Sergeant York"): fortunately US congress did shoot down this turkey after millions had been wasted.
Merkava Tank (Israel): an innovative if strange, design. It is slow and heavily armoured, contradicting both NATO's and Warsaw Pact's speed doctrine.
Yeah, moments like those really made the game memorable.
My first sim. It was a blast.
Same here!
If you got the CMOH you could send your save game off to Microprose and get a signed certificate from Wild Bill Stealey himself!
I did not know it but I think it's a bit late for that ....😅
thank you for posting this . brought back some fond memories of playing this game as a kid
Some more sound advice: always carry at least a pair of Sidewinders when flying in Europe against 1st line troops.
In Gunship 2000 of course they had them replaced with Stingers which were shorter ranged but you could carry twice the load compared to Sidewinders.
Better advice: stay low low low and take out any target with the trusty 30 mm chaingun. When in doubt, get the hell out with all jammers on and flares flying. And don't forget evasive maneuvering AWAY from the target.
This sim i played till unconsciousness. It also cause me to learn sid-assembler, to understand the copy protection scheme, after the datasette messed the tape up and had to buy a new cassette. Finally, i was able to copy to an Akai HiFi VHS videorecorder, with all covers opened up. What a mess. Hail to MicroProse!
Some other excellent titles of about the same time: Raid Over Moscow, incredibly fun arcade game and incredibly difficult if you wanted to get all of your pilot/commandoes out alive at the highest difficulty level.
I remember rushing home from school to tastelessly play this the day the first Gulf War kicked off.
Don't think you're the only one who made Colonel with the MOH, DSM, SS, BSV, ACM, NDS medal and all campaign medals with accompanying AMs, of course one or two PHs.
Truth be told, you got a campaign medal after flying only three missions, the Air Medal for another three. But flying on Ultimate settings in either Europe or the Middle East still was tricky business.
I played this game for so long and late into the nights that I developed computer combat fatigue :-D
Loved this game on C 64, long time ago..
They even took into account the wind and windforce plus high moisture levels and heat would decrease your actionradius because you'd use up more fuel.
It looks primative now but at the time Wow! I spent hours on this. It seemed so real and smooth at the time. I think it was on a tape and I used an action replay cart and put it on a floppy. Those where the days......
The C64 did have a disk drive, for those who could afford it.
...which was about twice as slow as the tapedeck. Or at least it felt like that.
THAT's why you only get an Army Commendation Medal, even with both the Primary and Secondary Targets annihilated while other enemies took moderate casualties.
If this was actually played at Hard level, I'd think you would have received a BSV or SS and some nice damage compliments of the Warsaw Pact's AAA.
Remember going super high at base to reveal those pesky radar bastards.Loved this game to death :)
It is true that this title is a good AMIGA's remake faithful to the ambience of the C = 64 in contrast to F-19.
Played this for hours and hours .................
@Doeff8 I agree! Look at what this game had going for it, and all on a 64K, 1MHz machine.
100% agree with you and their last baby who is FALCON 4.0 and is still active.
I think he has the longevity reccord for a game:)
Lol. The start of the music is so perfect. =) I like it. Btw what has the countersign to do (I figured all the contols out and the saying of text with a dictionary)? But I never figured that out. I played Gunship as child alot, but never could quit a mission the right way. Maybe because the game was cracked? I cant remember?
Btw, i like your vids about old simulators. ...oh memories awake...
@the1log
The joys of the game on tape right?
The first time for me as it was on tape and what a joy when my floppy disk drive 1541 has arrived (many small jobs to students during holidays)
You gotta love that frame-rate.
Well, heh, anyone being addicted to this game became 'rather good at it' no doubt.
I remember taking out the enemy HQ in Western Europe, using up all my ammo, then getting the hell out at full power and about knee-high altitude, being shot at by T-74s machineguns! They couldn't hurt me and I was flying too low and fast to hit them, but talk about an adrenalin rush.
Of course, I got the MOH that time.
But one other time I was really sleepy, shot up my own troops and was down to peeling potatoes.
On all the period of the Commodore 64, it's the best simulator of gunship.
On AMIGA, I'd say it Gunship 2000.
@TheDoomSquid
You are right and for me, with F-16 Gunship Combat Pilot High Difficulty were the most realistic simulator on the Commodore 64 :0)
I had it on the amstrad, I was only 7 to 8 years old. I had the templatle that fit around the keyboard but I could never manage to take off, and after waitng 40 minutes for it to load made me never play it again.
Hi AudieHolland,
I already answered this question.
I wanted to play as I played on my C64 (or Amiga for others videos) but with emulator that's impossible.
Seting the video was already done and I do not have time to start over.
The purpose of the video is not to show that I'm the best but just recall good memories. ;o)
This is a solid machine, with me it still works very well after all this time :0))
@OmegaWolf666
It was the time when hobbyists were making games for hobbyists.
Bill Stealey was a fighter pilot, it had to play for realism.
The evidence is that their last simulator Falcon 4.0 is from 1999 and is still the most compet today's.
When MICROPROSE died, the world of simulation has lost something.
Somehow I always ended peeling potatoes >.>
great game, lots of memories
@couerl
We had the chance to experience the beginnings.
I think our old games are better than today's but not by the graphics but for the fun.
They were enthusiasts for enthusiasts now, it's just business.
For games, I still have all trees and they work well ;0P
My uncle was fucking awesome at this.
I would like to know if Daniel Bryan got his music from this game. I know the song is much much older but something tells me he or Wwe people who gave it to him got it from this game.
Thank you P0V3RTY09.
I am still active in the military, but I try to find time for my C64 but I still have a emulator on my laptop ;0)
He he he, you beefed up the soundtrack a little!
Thanks for making this video! Shared here: www.migman.com/sw/Gunship/vid-pl.php
@dobravery
(Following)
... to make the corrections were on the edge of the impossible.
I was therefore forced to switch to easy mode:0(
My video was done a few times and as the first part (choice of Difficulty and briefing) were already made I kept it like that.
I do not pretend to suggest anything, I just want to share my passion for flight simulation :0)
@dobravery
Hi,
You're right, I've made this video in flight simplified and I'll tell you why.
All my videos are made because I still have the original game and the machine home.
I'm a fan of flight simulation since my Commodore 64.
The video was made with an emulator and I've wanted to play like I play with my C64.
Unfortunately, with the PC joysticks of today, it was impossible to handle the keyboard too.
Let me explain, in realistic mode the joystick responded late....
Hi NeilRoy65
I must be honest, when I made this video, I wanted to do as I played on my Commodore 64 but with one emulator and joystick from now it was impossible.
So,the video was made in easy mode.
Options such as video was already made (not the courage to start all over again), I left it, that's why you see hard difficulty.
I played this game for hours and hours on my C64.
Thanks tierfuehrer2 :0)
For the simulators,I've always used the original because there was often little tricks like that.
And also, I was certain of having all the keys on the keyboard to play. :0)
@+++
Now, you contradicted yourself. At the time Gunship came out, we already had Silent Service. From the same company of course but don't say we had nothing that approached Gunship's realism.
I'll say this: even though I loved playing Project: Stealth Fighter, it was a bit easier than Gunship. No flying into hills and as long as you turned on your jammers in time, nothing could hit you. Even enemy fighters would not use their cannon in broad daylight. They'd simply fly through you and then: Blam!
@cinqo7
I'm 40 and I still play with this game and many others on my C64 ;0))
Actually this came out YEARS before the amigas. It is not a remake of the Amigas. The Amigas was a remake of this.
How old were you back then? When I was playing this game, I was about 9 or 10.
Ah, so you didn't have the manual!
You know why you failed? You managed to turn on one or both of the engines but you still needed to engage the rotor...
@Doeff8
Ho yes, I can immagine when I see Falcon 4.0, the last "baby"from Microprose, which dates from 1998 and is still "alive".
No simulator has yet been able to dethrone it.
Today, may be A-10C that can compete with avionic but for the dynamics campaign,there are still a long way.
To believe that today, it's one or the other, Falcon had both with a less powerful PC.
Falcon was "Microprose" only because of corporate buyouts etc so it was MP only in name. Gunship is from the real Microprose which was in it's prime in the 80's.
@quadturbo4
Perhaps because the big boss was a fighter pilot :0)
I take it English was not your native language at the time? Because the "quick take-off" (easy setting) is quite straightforward.
Turn on both engines (press 1, 2), engage the rotor (press 3) max up on the collective (press F1 till the collective bar fills completely) and presto, you're airborne. Don't forget pressing forward on the stick a bit and decreasing the collective with a few F7s and one or two F5s or else you're up in the clouds and on everyone's threat indicator.
Silent Service was OK
I doubt it. If you were able to hit targets at 11 km distance, you'd be exposed to all enemy anti air plus the odd Hind thrown in. You would have been shot down before your own Hellfires even hit their targets.
Real veteran players just use the 30 mm cannon and never go above 50 feet. At least in Europe.
What was so realistic about this game was the Hellfires could be jammed but if you fired them 'blind' at the target then locked on just before it reached it, it still had a good chance to hit.
You're right markokke, this is what I meant ;0)
Sorry, English is not my first language ;0)
I used to fly very low and used the 30mm on everything
I've always found the game so fun when I did the video :0))
Nice Video I learned alot
Wow did I ever play this a lot
Always go full Hellfire loadout in Europe against 1st line troops. Always.
On this machine,I thing it's the best helli sim.
There was Tomhawk too but I d'ont like it....
I've searched long to find it on disk.
It was more expensive but on cacette it was too long ....
Hi HaligonianType1,
All videos were made with an emulator for ease but I still have the originals at home too :0)
But I am already on Lemon 64.
And,it's true that this's a "treasure mane" :0))
Best game ever. really !
I had one Amstrad pc 1640 !!!!! my poor old pc.jajjaj. cheers
Duh, that's because it's actually easier to lock onto all those armoured targets in Europe.
Fighting in South East Asia was demanding in a different way: couldn't carry too much stuff because of moist and heat, I practised firing pairs of FFAR missiles while carrying only half a load of 30 mm.
Never cut down on fuel in South East Asia. Never.
And it's not exactly good for morale trying to land at a base after a mission, getting fired at by sneaky VC troops at your own base's doorstep!
Gimmie a break I was only a kid. I did try quite hard to get the bird in the sky but it would just make a duuuuurrwip noise. Forgive me ::(
Nope, the actual difficulty is Moderate.
Check 01:49. G-2's expectations are the same as the actual mission difficulty.
I fly it on my C=64,I still got it :o))
@russianimp1
This is certain, it will not ace combat, HAWX and more.
What's more?, here no HOTAS, Rudder Pedals not just a good old joystick and keyboard.
I did (I still have all my old machines), you too can. :0)
Great, I found my twin!!! :0))
I was 6 when I got the amstrad, I had the manual but as I said I was probably about 7 or 8 when I played it. I was better at f16 strike eagle and silent service. Silent service was my thing really. Oh and Dizzy.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am not the only one still playing on a real Commodore 64. :0))
I also have many original games or not ....
And I have not yet tried: 0 /
@+++
I own the original of this. Box and all. I have my Commodore 64 still hooked up. Hah...
@dobravery
(Next and last following)
Even today's, I play with Jeane'F-18, LOMAC,Open Falcon, IL2, Black Sharck ,....
I've even changed my Cougar in Hotas FCC2.
But since you noticed this detail is that you too are a fan of simulations: 0)
@+++ Vince ;0)
Tsk. Never read the manual, did you?
lol, looks like it was made in paint XD