[vFunct]

My game of choice was Gunship on the Commodore 64, the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter simulator from Microprose. Spent YEARS playing that.

Best part was the instruction manual that came with it that was basically a guide of all the military equipment of the Soviet Union that you could target in the game.

[the_af]

Gunship 2000 here!

I loved that it had a dynamic campaign where the frontline moved according to how well you did.

Before that, I also enjoyed LHX.

> Best part was the instruction manual that came with it that was basically a guide of all the military equipment of the Soviet Union that you could target in the game.

Do you remember what the copy protection was for MicroProse's F-19 Stealth Fighter? It was the silhouettes of US and Soviet fighters and bombers from the Cold War era: "identify this aircraft". Somehow they thought my teenage self, obsessed as I was with Cold War military tech, wouldn't learn the shapes. It's how I learned the shapes of most fighter jets.

Yes, I had a pirated copy. We all did back then, legal games were unheard of.

[alisonatwork]

If you remember LHX fondly, there's a new game out with similar aesthetic: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1906230/Thunder_Helix/

Still EA for now, but it looks promising.

[debo_]

Wow, it looks almost exactly like LHX. You weren't kidding. But can I watch from the viewpoint of my TOW missile camera, I wonder...

Thanks for the link.

[keyle]

That guy has been very active on twitter since the start of the development of the game. I don't have his account anymore since I stopped caring about twitter but ... he's probably still there journaling!

-- edit: I don't like half assed comments so I went and dig him up https://x.com/HiddenAsbestos

[pferde]

I only learned like 4-5 of those shapes, and kept restarting the game until I got one of those. :)

[CoastalCoder]

Me too! And in retrospect, it's amazing what they managed to pull off with the C64's limited hardware.

[xbar]

Thank you for mentioning it. It was a revelation.