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Okay I'm WAY too hyped to have found a game I played in 1999 and wasn't sure existed and was actually a figment of my imagination but it actually exists and literal decades of on/off web searching wasn't in vein:

May I present: Ultra Fighters, a combat flight sim featuring solar powered jet planes.
www.gamepressure.com

Ultra Fighters - Game Database - gamepressure.com

A futuristic fighter simulator from the XXVI century, in which as a pilot-rent we fight for a new energy source, Thermodux, located on the island of Solomon.
www.gamepressure.com www.gamepressure.com

Anyone else had a moment like this? What game was it? Or if you still can't place it describe it, maybe we can help?
 
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For the those with way too much free time, theres two games I remember liking very much:

There was a horror-themed game where you had to solve puzzles (like simple equations and such) to progress through an old abandoned castle stlye building, it always reminded me of the castle of the badguy from smurfs (dunno what he was called in murican, only ever heard it dubbed). I know there is a very well known one, 7th guest I think, that's not it but thats the only one that ever comes up. Older than that, probably not even VGA. Possibly from around 1990+-3?

Another one of my favorite and earliest memory of playing something like a video game was... you control a heli, its drawn from sideview and so is everything else on the map, but it's a top-down view game where you fly over a world thats mostly covered in blue, presumably water, and you gotta lift up (save) ppl stranded. I think... Possibly a C64 or Atari or some such EU market console game, I distinctly remember playing it on TV screen. It's also possible it was some soviet knock-off tv-toy-console game so it might not exist in any archives, also I'm guessing there were a lot of clones of such games.
 
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Well I got the original PONG from 1970's it's only operational with the big A-batteries ha ha ha.. and only connection is RF output..
Come with 2 removable built in hand controls attached with wires (obvious) :P
It is still in mint condition look as new.. Sadly the original box have not survived over the years..
But game works flawlessly. . .

Many hours spent playing this, back then you where king if you had this and it was hooked up to a 27" TubeTV ha ha ha ha. . . .
Later replaced as entertaining with a VIC20 then the C64, Amiga. . . . PC. . . From there on it got out of hand ha ha ha . . .
Here one are and still hooked up with computers and games, Smart watch, Tablet and mobile phone's . .

Imagine knowing back then that in the future you would carry a smartwatch or mobile phone that have more computer power that all of 1970-80's NASA and US defence combined.
How time flies when you're having fun. .

CHEERS!
 
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Talking of blasts from the past anyone remember a game called Virus where you flew a ship around trying not to crash? A bit like star citizen! :D

I loved playing this.

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Mich Angel said:
Well I got the original PONG from 1970's it's only operational with the big A-batteries ha ha ha.. and only connection is RF output..
Come with 2 removable built in hand controls attached with wires (obvious) :P
It is still in mint condition look as new.. Sadly the original box have not survived over the years..
But game works flawlessly. . .
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I remember that! Pong, Asteroids, Tank Battle - don't remember the others I played. At first, you only found them in bars and arcades (and they ate a lot of quarters), then they transitioned to home consoles then eventually PC's.
When I was in college, one of the things we had to do was to write a Pong clone. I got divorced from most of this because after I graduated, I ended up working at a certain tree fruit company for a while.
 
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I fell down this rabbit hole ages ago. There were a bunch of games that I fondly remembered and wanted to play again. That was the starting point. The finish line was a new permanent fixture in my house and about 1tb of games loaded on it. It has just about every game made from Atari 2600 to Playstation era, around 12k games. I may have overdone it...

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NaffNaffBobFace said:
Okay I'm WAY too hyped to have found a game I played in 1999 and wasn't sure existed and was actually a figment of my imagination but it actually exists and literal decades of on/off web searching wasn't in vein:

May I present: Ultra Fighters, a combat flight sim featuring solar powered jet planes.
www.gamepressure.com

Ultra Fighters - Game Database - gamepressure.com

A futuristic fighter simulator from the XXVI century, in which as a pilot-rent we fight for a new energy source, Thermodux, located on the island of Solomon.
www.gamepressure.com www.gamepressure.com

Anyone else had a moment like this? What game was it? Or if you still can't place it describe it, maybe we can help?
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Oh, and mine was F29 Retaliator. It was my first flight game with a joystick back in 1990. Man, did I log some hours on that one.
 
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Bruttle said:
I fell down this rabbit hole ages ago. There were a bunch of games that I fondly remembered and wanted to play again. That was the starting point. The finish line was a new permanent fixture in my house and about 1tb of games loaded on it. It has just about every game made from Atari 2600 to Playstation era, around 12k games. I may have overdone it...

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My God it's beautiful!
 
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Han Burgundy said:

I played the demo for this game 100,000 times but never actually owned the game...
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Same, never owned it but played the demo sooooo much. for me success trying flying through the car tunnel smashing both wings off, and then doing it again but with gear down so you could drive the second half of it.
 
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Lorddarthvik said:
For the those with way too much free time, theres two games I remember liking very much:

There was a horror-themed game where you had to solve puzzles (like simple equations and such) to progress through an old abandoned castle stlye building, it always reminded me of the castle of the badguy from smurfs (dunno what he was called in murican, only ever heard it dubbed). I know there is a very well known one, 7th guest I think, that's not it but thats the only one that ever comes up. Older than that, probably not even VGA. Possibly from around 1990+-3?

Another one of my favorite and earliest memory of playing something like a video game was... you control a heli, its drawn from sideview and so is everything else on the map, but it's a top-down view game where you fly over a world thats mostly covered in blue, presumably water, and you gotta lift up (save) ppl stranded. I think... Possibly a C64 or Atari or some such EU market console game, I distinctly remember playing it on TV screen. It's also possible it was some soviet knock-off tv-toy-console game so it might not exist in any archives, also I'm guessing there were a lot of clones of such games.
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Oooh, interesting.

First game sounds a little like Day Of The Tentacle 1 but isn't that, that was a mansion, I'll ask Mrs 'BobFace she's played the Sinclair version of Rocky Horror Picture Show so may have more leads on that, she told me about one called Rodney The Knight or Robin The Knight which sounds similar.

No clue on the second one sorry, I did a web search on an engine that hasn't been intentionally banjaxed and found some but nothing exactly like that.
 
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BUTUZ said:
Talking of blasts from the past anyone remember a game called Virus where you flew a ship around trying not to crash? A bit like star citizen! :D

I loved playing this.

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Oh man, I loved this - the really short draw distance made it so hard to pilot though. Like everyone else I spent a lot of time playing both Elite and Elite+, but I think Strider was the first game I ever completed. Strider - Atari ST (1989) longplay
Never finished R-Type though...
 
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I remember playing lots of games Tron, Moria (variant), and Frogger. Interestingly enough, each of these had different methods of loading. Cartridge, 5 1/4 floppy disc, and a cassette tape respectively.

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Best baseball game of the era though was Major League Baseball (pre coleco-vision) and B-17 was a good game too but required Intellivoice.
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