Comments on: Ratta Tatta Tatta Tatta: Altitude Demo

By: Miss Gazer Beam

Miss Gazer Beam — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:35:37 +0000

I agree with [TL]eth. It IS a great game :p

By: [TL]eth

[TL]eth — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:44:43 +0000

Wow I’m famous!

Anyway the “little more than spinning in loops” etc, what? Then I wonder why some players have 50-3 kill/death ratios, while others struggle to achieve a 1-1 ratio :p

This is an awesome game, and it has a lot more depth than this article gives it credit for. Give it a try :)

By: Poita

Poita — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:51:26 +0000

I like the web site design. not much to it but i like clearly deliniated and solid, colourful icons and boxes etc with no clutter on the page.

By: IvanHoeHo

IvanHoeHo — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:47:34 +0000

Sweet, It’s like an aerial version of soldat! Will try after midterms.

By: Catastrophe

Catastrophe — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:54:53 +0000

Ooo these all ring a bell, damn my memory!

By: Hypocee

Hypocee — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:37:53 +0000

So the goal of Altitude is to spin and spray? Rather than, say, to shoot the other guys? Oh.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:04:42 +0000

“It is still a very restricted game – teeny levels and little more to it than flying in tight loops and throwing ammo everywhere.”

Basketball is little more than throwing a ball into a hoop, neh? Think you’re really selling the game short. There’s a lot of nuance to the gameplay and all kinds of interesting plane interactions once you become an experienced pilot. I’ve been enjoying this game for months and continue to learn new aspects of play.

By: Fat Zombie

Fat Zombie — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:36:20 +0000

JETSTRIKE

“Dakkus Dakkus Et Blastium”

Loved that game. Had it for the Amiga, used to have it on DOSBOX but lost it. I loved that you could pit a WW1-era biplane against a Flanker (or dragon, if you were so inclined). This sounds good if it’s anything like that game.

By: Hypocee

Hypocee — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:24:59 +0000

I played Sopwith and have played Jetstrike, but the one that stands in my affection, and maybe the one Catastrophe’s thinking of, is Wings of Fury. You fly a carrier Hellcat in the Pacific theatre of WWII. I only discovered it seven or eight years ago through the magic of emulation, and it’s been set up posthaste on each machine I’ve built since – I play the Apple II version to relax, as it’s just challenging enough to punish you if you goof off and has enormously satisfying, chunky physical feedback. The DOS version is rather tough and a little twitchier/arcadier, not to mention more of a bear to get running, and the Amiga version is fast and ROCK BASTARD HARD – I think I’ve completed one mission ever before throwing up my hands and scampering back to my eight-colour Easy Mode. The AA guns fire like five times as fast, lock right on to you and nothing shakes them. Oh, and the GBC version’s OK. The physics and the change to a single jeep upset me, I think, but that’s probably a matter of imprinting.

I recommend the game highly for those who haven’t tried it, especially the Apple version. It captures the feel of cinematic Crimson Skies-style warbird flight like nothing else I’ve seen in 2D. Tense carrier landings, deadly torpedo runs, treetop strafing, rocket plinking, zooming dogfights and carpet- and dive-bombing; there’s nothing like the feeling of accomplishment when you can rip off two rockets and hit two cruiser gun positions from the overview, or glide-bomb four barracks with four bombs while jinking, or deliberately catch the four-wire so you can get to the elevator just before your smoking engine blows. Two tips: 1. If you fly up above the screen, you get a zoomed-out view. 2. You have to press and hold the machine gun key while on the elevator to repair/rearm. That one took me a while my first session.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:55:31 +0000

Ooh, this reminds me of a 2D dogfighting game on the BBC Micro. I loved that game.

By: VelvetFistIronGlove

VelvetFistIronGlove — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:53:29 +0000

I remember Sopwith. One of its most interesting features was multiplayer: apparently it supported 8 players over a network, but no-one I knew had ever got it to work. It turns out that the game had been written to demo the company’s own proprietary networking products, and multiplayer only worked with their network.

The author of the game, David L. Clark, released the source a few years back on his website: http://www.davidlclark.com/

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:41:56 +0000

Sopwith (1986!) is the earliest example I remember playing…

http://dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/127