Comments on: Mount C C:\Airpower

By: aion kinah

aion kinah — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:31:16 +0000

I played the demo for this on Steam awhile back, it was good fun. I’m looking forward to a full release.

By: Hypocee

Hypocee — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:51:46 +0000

Heh, coinkydink. Just the other day I was reading something about Wipeout HD and pondering whether the hover-racer genre had fallen from some historical high. ‘What was the other one that put up serious resistance to Wipeout, I remember reading the PCG review, couldn’t make the demo run well at the time…what was it…Oh yeah, Slipstream! Slipstream 5000!’

By: keelids

keelids — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:41:14 +0000

Can someone PLEASE email Zushi publishing/ZOO Publishing? They’ve just published Slipstream 5000, Simon the Sorcerer, Normality, and Little Devil on GamersGate for $4.99. They’re the guys who a guy posted above said frickin’ owns the IP.

ASK THEM TO PUBLISH IT. ASK THEM TO PUBLISH IT.

I frickin’ love Air Power and a no-tweak straight-ass install-play on my vista box is just what I need.

(Slipstream, man, RPS should do a feature on that. It’s awesome stuff.)

EMAIL. Please.

and if you are a Christian and love AirPower, pray…..

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:13:35 +0000

Hell I nearly forgot about that one. I loved it years ago.

By: Songbearer

Songbearer — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:36:27 +0000

Oh wow! I used to play this game as a kid while listening to 70′s music while pulling a sicky. I totally forgot about what this game was called, thank you SO MUCH for this.

Fond memories.

By: Trithemius

Trithemius — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:11:29 +0000

Less piracy-talk, more airships bombing greenhouses-talk! >:|

By: Tim Stone

Tim Stone — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:09:16 +0000

@Carra. When was the last time you lounged in an IL-2 mess or wiped irate-IL-2-squadron-leader spittle off your face? They’re splendid sims, but incredibly austere games.

By: Stromko

Stromko — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:15:16 +0000

It seems in this instance there’d be no way that the initial creators could make a dime off the game anymore. It seems probable (just from my readings in this thread) that whoever has the rights now got it at a bargain-basement price when Empire Interactive shut down.

Or maybe the rights are entirely lost, so that even if somebody thought they could make a buck by licensing it to Gametap or Good Old Games or whatever, it’s too legally murky to bother with.

It seems me if you like the idea of old games being made available to players both new and old, supporting Gametap or GOG or whoever starts selling it again by getting this game from them would be prudent. But, they don’t have this game, so that’s quite impossible.

Someone could still march in on their high horse and say we should just wait until we can reacquire a copy of these old games legally, and not play them until then, but that seems excessive. Abandonware vs piracy is an exercise in splitting hairs.

By: Nobody Important

Nobody Important — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:59:05 +0000

While abandonware is illegal, I don’t consider it immoral. It depends on how you look at the issue.

By: Carra

Carra — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:48:08 +0000

Maddox & Ascetism in one sentence? That makes no sense.

By: Hypocee

Hypocee — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:09:40 +0000

I’m well aware there’s more than one Underdogs restoration product, thank you. My mistake was in attempting to replicate your claim before posting a mea culpa. I ran the search ‘underdogs air power’ for ‘mere seconds on Google’ and came up with nothing.

By referring to RPS’ coverage of the Underdogs’ returns, I was able to look at each in turn and find it. He means hotud.org, folks – no direct link to preserve his etiquette – and FYI that’s the 8MB rip version.

By: Cedge

Cedge — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:31:44 +0000

And just FYI, yes, I just downloaded it from the HOTU mirror I am thinking of. Works fine.