Retro Dogfight

Hello my friends, and welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight! In this episode, we’re starting a series looking at many of the sims helped along by a bloke named Paul Grace, whom Denny knows personally, and whom we eventually hope to interview. We decided to go through several of his sims, starting with some of his earliest. This time we’re looking at the three Chuck Yeager sims, spe...

Welcome, my friends, to this month’s episode of Retro Dogfight! This time, Denny, Chase and I discuss Chase’s favorite flight sim, MicroProse’s 1998 magnum opus, European Air War . This is a fascinating sim that I had to come to grips with, my own self. Originally I didn’t play it much because I unfairly compared it to 1942: The Pacific Air War . Once I put that aside, I wa...

Welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight! This time, the three of us discuss Denny’s favorite flight sim, and my favorite WWII sim, 1942: The Pacific Air War , which you can get on Steam and GOG . If you’re unaware, this sim covers much of the air war in the Pacific in 1942, and it’s a game you can play for years, thanks to massive career modes, tons of single missions and a dyn...

Hello my friends, and welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight. Side note, this is the first episode we’ve recorded with Riverside ! It’s a lovely web-based platform that records from each of our machines individually, so hopefully we’ll sound even better moving forward! Now, to the episode itself! Since we’ve eschewed going chronologically, and because my brain has been m...

Hey friends, welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight! In this episode, Chase, Denny and I tackle something a little bit different. Back in 1997, Digital Image Design released F-22: Air Dominance Fighter , the much-anticipated follow-up to my personal favorite jet sim, EF2000 . There was a bit of a hullabaloo at the time as this game shipped with static missions, whereas EF2000 had a lovely dynam...

Hello my friends, and welcome this episode of Retro Dogfight! First off, I have to apologize for my audio. Just before recording, I discovered that Windows had, for some reason I still don’t understand, lowered my gain in the Windows audio settings. I only figured it out about a week or so AFTER recording this, but for this particular episode, my audio is a bit soft, and for that, I apologiz...

Welcome, my friends, to this episode of Retro Dogfight! Today, Chase, Denny and I will look back at one of Dynamix’s earliest flight sims, and its sequel: A-10 Tank Killer Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II These games came out almost a decade apart, but you wouldn’t know it from how they played. It’s kind of a shame. I had so much fun, back in the day and now, playing the first...

Hello, my friends, and welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight! This time, as it’s the holiday season when we recorded this one, Chase, Denny, and I took a break from playing a game to answer your questions, and my goodness, did you folks have a lot of awesome questions.  Thank you so, so much to everyone who sent in so many amazing questions. We had so much fun answering them. So much so...

Hello, my friends, and welcome to this latest episode of Retro Dogfight! In this episode, we look at the seminial massively multiplayer flight sim series that began in 1998, the Air Warrior series! This includes: Air Warrior Air Warrior II Air Warrior III I learned a LOT during this episode. For example, did you know this was the first graphical massively multiplayer game? Before this, it was all...

Hello, my friends, and welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight!  This one is a doozy, my friends! Last episode, we looked at the much-beloved Amiga-only F/A-18 Interceptor by Robert Dinnerman. I wasn’t aware of this at the time, but he then went on to create the long-running and popular Jetfighter series, which spanned seven games over seventeen years! So, we decided to take on the dauntin...

Hello my friends, and welcome to this latest episode of Retro Dogfight! I first have to make an apology. There was a heat wave going on in Los Angeles as we recorded this, so I had a fan going directly on me. I tried my best to hide it, but you can hear it a little bit whenever I talk, so, apologies on that. For the actual episode itself, welcome to the first episode in which we talk about only on...

Welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight, my friends! Today we’re talking about two classic MicroProse sims that are near and dear to my heart: F-19 Stealth Fighter ( Steam , GOG ) F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 ( Steam , GOG ) F-19 was a seminal flight sim for me personally, as it was the first combat-oriented flight sim I ever purchased, and played it for years after its release. It...

In this episode of Retro Dogfight, we'll look at early MicroProse classics, such as F-15 Strike Eagle and Gunship! The post 05 – MicroProse Takes Off first appeared on Retro Dogfight .

In this episode, we look at early MicroProse titles, Hellcat Ace, Spitfire Ace and Mig Alley Ace! The post 04 – Early MicroProse Sims – The Ace Series first appeared on Retro Dogfight .

In this episode of Retro Dogfight, we'll go back to the 1970s with the very first flight games! The post 03 – Early Text-Based Flight Sim Games first appeared on Retro Dogfight .

LucasFims' sims are our focus this time, including Battlehawks 1942 and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. The post 02 – A Look at Lucasfilm first appeared on Retro Dogfight .

Welcome to the first episode of Retro Dogfight! In this show, my friends, fellow flight sim grogs, Denny and Chase, and I will look at beloved old flight sims. The post 01 – Introductions first appeared on Retro Dogfight .