First game i ever bought, boxed in 5¼ inch floppy disks and ran it on my first PC an AMD 80286-16 Mhz. There is no manual with the Steam version though the original boxed release had a fairly comprehensive booklet. Some key mappings - haven't found all of it - Arrow keys - flight direction controls - Numpad 2,4,6,8 - same as above - Numpad 1,3,7,9 -...
Falcon1987
Falcon
1987 Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.74Good
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Available on
- $6.99
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Details
- Launch
- 1987
- Developer
- Sphere
- Publisher
- Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
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- Genres
Overview
When you climb into the cockpit of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, get set for the "flight of your life" as the powerful FALCON F-16 takes you streaking across the sky at Mach 2.
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Players82
Great- Steam82from 11 reviews
For some reason I've put a lot more time on this game than the other Falcon games. It's your basic F-16 flight simulator, but there's something about this game which makes it pretty cool, or maybe it's the fact that I've had a boxed copy since childhood and haven't been able to play it for almost 20 years, due to me not having a 486 computer to play...
I have more fun watching other people play these classic flight simulation games than I do playing them myself. I'm just not good at them and give up too easily.
I love this sim, its graphics are dated and its sound is mostly non-existent, but its a good tough game
Tip: When you start the game set the "Machine" to "286 (8MHz)" to have the plane move through the sky at a realistic speed. At the time I'm writing this the default setting was "286 (16MHz)" and the game ran way too fast, as if time compression was on. I'm pretty sure 8MHz has it running at the realistic speed. At 300 knots and 20 degrees nose up it...
