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1. BEST COMBAT FLIGHT GAMES FOR MAC HOW TO
2. BEST COMBAT FLIGHT GAMES FOR MAC FOR MAC
3. BEST COMBAT FLIGHT GAMES FOR MAC MANUALS

If you’re on a PC and want to experience Parsoft’s physics while blowing up polygon tanks, then this game is for you.

BEST COMBAT FLIGHT GAMES FOR MAC MANUALS

Personally, thick paper manuals are part of the era’s charm … and a necessity given the lack of detailed embedded tutorials.īut, then, we can’t be too choosy. The downside is that there are fewer missions and poor documentation - which for 1990s flight sims is almost unforgivable.

BEST COMBAT FLIGHT GAMES FOR MAC FOR MAC

So A-10 Cuba! is basically A-10 Attack! except for Mac and Windows, plus improved graphics and with its setting in Cuba instead of Europe. Luckily, for those of us with PCs, there was a sequel.

BEST COMBAT FLIGHT GAMES FOR MAC HOW TO

To get a sense of what all this looks like on the screen, see this overview (embedded above) from the YouTube channel SiliconClassics.Īnd if you have a Mac, there is still a small community that has kept A-10 Attack! alive - though I can’t give you any tips on how to run it on a modern machine.

The result is a flight sim legend with realistic flight dynamics that retains its retro cool. Thankfully, Parsoft kept the low-res polygons and gave us an amazingly ahead-of-its-time physics engine and enemy A.I. More processing power for better graphics meant gameplay sometimes suffered. But as improvements in technology accelerated, including computer-melting 3D accelerated graphics, developers faced a dilemma. Until the mid-1990s, most flight simulators used low-resolution polygons for graphics, which freed up processing power for their engines. More to the point, Parsoft stood athwart some of the gaming trends at the time, and produced an excellent sim because of it. In terms of realism and complexity, few flight sims of the day could beat Parsoft’s entry in the genre, which also takes place during a European war with the Soviet Union. Apple was struggling and Microsoft was nearing its release of Windows 95.įortunately, there was the Mac-exclusive A-10 Attack! by Parsoft Interactive. Steve Jobs had been away from the company for a decade. Macs have long lacked for games, and 1995 was a dark time for Apple fans generally. It’s worth playing as a retro look back at early combat flight sims, and your best chance is finding a semi-legal copy on an abandonware site. Aimed more for the casual gamer, flight sim geeks will likely see it as a novelty due to its simple mechanics.Ī-10 Tank Killer received expansions for the Europe setting and later for the Persian Gulf War, which took place in 1991 and is perhaps the A-10’s most famous real-life role. It mostly relies on 3D polygons for its low-res graphics, which were typical for flight sims of the era. As a result, this low-tech sim puts the player commanding the aircraft in its intended role - destroying Soviet tanks in Central Europe.ĭeveloped by flight sim pioneer Dynamix (which was also responsible for the classic Red Baron) and released in 1989 for DOS and Amiga, A-10 Tank Killer is technically simple. As far as I’m able to tell, A-10 Tank Killer was the first dedicated computer game about the Warthog, perhaps the first one to even feature it, and it’s the only A-10 game to come out during the Cold War.