Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer | |
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Flight simulator | |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer is an
The game allows a player to "test pilot" 14 different airplanes, including the Bell X-1, which Yeager had piloted to become the first man to exceed Mach 1.
The game is embellished by Yeager's laconic commentary: When the user crashes one plane, Yeager remarks "You sure bought the farm on that one", or other asides.
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Aircraft
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer includes 11 real aircraft and three experimental aircraft designed by the developers. The fictional experimental aircraft were named after people who worked on the game.[1]
- Real aircraft
- Bell X-1
- Cessna 172
- Douglas X-3 Stiletto
- General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
- Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
- McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
- North American P-51 Mustang
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee
- Sopwith Camel
- SPAD S.XIII
- Supermarine Spitfire
- Experimental aircraft
- Grace Industries XPG-12 Samurai
- Hilleman Ltd. XRH4 MadDog
- Lerner Aeronautics XNL-16 Instigator
Reception
Publication | Award |
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Amstrad Action | Mastergame[2] |
The game was a big hit for EA, selling 100,000 copies by December 1987.
In a 1994 survey of wargames Computer Gaming World gave the title one-plus stars out of five.[11]
Legacy
This game was followed in
References
- ^ Jermaine, John (January 1998). "Ned Lerner and Chuck Yeager: Taking Computer Flight to New Heights". Commodore Magazine. 9 (1): 69.
- Future Publishing, issue 42, March 1989
- ^ Campbell, Colin (14 July 2015). "How EA lost its soul, chapter 8". Polygon. Vox Media. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- Press-Courier. December 13, 1987. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
- ISBN 978-0-13-154122-1.
- ^ Staff (November 1989). "Chart-Busters; SPA Platinum". Game Players. No. 5. p. 112.
- ^ Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia (October 1987). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (126): 82–88.
- ^ Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (December 1988). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (140): 74–79.
- ^ Bobo, Ervin (December 1987). "Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer". Compute!. p. 44. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
- ^ Wilson, David M. (February 1988). "Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer". Computer Gaming World. Vol. 1, no. 44. p. 34.
- ^ Brooks, M. Evan (January 1994). "War In Our Time / A Survey Of Wargames From 1950-2000". Computer Gaming World. pp. 194–212.
External links
- Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer at MobyGames
- Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive