One of my first flightsims have you played "Corncob 3D" ;)

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One of my first flightsims have you played "Corncob 3D" ;)

Post by :FI:Snoop Baron » Wed Mar 09, 2016 5:37 pm

This was one of the first flight sims I played growing up :) It was really wacky but fun. I had completely forgotten the name but finally found a video of it online this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgXUe0m2msY


Have any of you played Corncob 3D? :)

The flight model was surprisingly good for its day. You can read more about it here:

http://pieintheskysoftware.com/art-hist ... ngine.html
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Post by :FI:Moog » Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:36 pm

Blast from the past!

I remember buying it on floppy disk—vaguely remember it came bundled with another game.

So trippy..... which maybe explains some of the inspiration behind Hunternet, Snoop?! :lol:
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Post by :FI:Snoop Baron » Sat Mar 12, 2016 5:03 pm

:FI:Moog wrote:So trippy..... which maybe explains some of the inspiration behind Hunternet, Snoop?! :lol:
I think you are right Moog, I've always been attracted to oddities and things that fly :D :lol:
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Re: One of my first flightsims have you played "Corncob 3D" ;)

Post by :FI:Armitage » Tue Mar 22, 2016 4:17 pm

my first flight sim was one I entered and programmed myself on a Commodore 64 way back in 1984
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Post by :FI:Snoop Baron » Wed Mar 23, 2016 4:51 pm

That's awesome! :D
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Post by :FI:Mefisto » Wed Mar 23, 2016 5:48 pm

Does River raid count? :)

I think my first flight sim was some clone or pirated version of Gunship on c64, if you consider helicopters as something that flies.
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Post by :FI:Moog » Wed Mar 23, 2016 11:58 pm

Remember this one?

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Post by :FI:Snoop Baron » Thu Mar 24, 2016 12:18 am

No to River Raid, yes to Helicopters :D Or maybe that should be backwards to mess with Helo :badgrin:

Moog the plugin failed to load what game is it? :)
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Post by :FI:Moog » Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:00 am

Hmmm, try this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5EtR79G99Y
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Post by :FI:Genosse » Fri Mar 25, 2016 9:10 am

Well, this was my first contact to "flight sims" on my Amiga 500: Wings Of Fury



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Post by :FI:Moog » Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:02 pm

That sound effect for the ground troops being shot is properly horrific! :shock:
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Post by :FI:Snoop Baron » Fri Mar 25, 2016 5:42 pm

:FI:Moog wrote:Hmmm, try this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5EtR79G99Y
Looks like a cool game, I never played that one but another of my first sims was "Blue Max: Aces of the Great War" here is a video of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U383qVJh9fA

It was an awesome 3D sim and it had local split screen vs and a 3D turn based mode :)! It was also the first time I picked the name "Snoop Baron" :) My two younger brothers stood no chance against the Snoop Baron in his tri-plane ;)

Almost forgot it also came with an awesome manual that had a lot of info on the various famous pilots of WWI :) I read that over and over again :D
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Post by :FI:Snoop Baron » Fri Mar 25, 2016 5:46 pm

:FI:Genosse wrote:Well, this was my first contact to "flight sims" on my Amiga 500: Wings Of Fury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ZS_xpVFZQ

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Wow that's really well done, Amiga had some amazing games I wish I had an opportunity to play it back then! I agree with Moog about the troops :shock: I really like all the special touches they added like different zoom levels and the animation when switching directions, plus the landing view :)
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