Microprose are back - b17 and other teasers shown

[Quasimodo 505]

OK that's it I'll try to install it and see what it makes of windows 10, 5.3ghz and a 2080ti 🤣

[greggerm 312]

Oh my goodness. MicroProse... they were one of the GODS of my early teenage years.

Gunship started it for me on the C64... I still have the keyboard overlay. I got it for Christmas one year, and absolutely STUDIED the user manual over the next several days as we crisscrossed New England visiting each set of grandparents/family. I vividly recall running into my grandparents living room exclaiming that the Apache had a predicted 30:1 kill ratio, and one of my uncles mercilessly mocked my nerdiness while I'm sure my parents just shook their heads.

Then F-15 Strike Eagle II.....

Then F-19.... 

Then.... (girls), (drivers license), and even found F-15 in the local arcade - not worth the $0.25... I did so much better at home with it.

Much respect. I only hope they do the MicroProse name justice.

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This jogged my memories... middle school, very early 1990's. We were on a field trip (possibly up to Boston?) and for some unknown reason, we stopped at the brand-new "Emerald Square Mall" on the way home. Malls were still a big thing back then, but for this geek the fact they had an Electronics Boutique AND a Babbage's was a-ma-zing. (How and why our teachers let us loose in there for an hour on a school field trip escapes me)

Anyway, I picked up "Vette!" at Babbage's, and for the next couple of months or so, I was an expert in San Francisco driving.

I miss those days. The days of pinwheel copy protection devices... the days of killer 'SID' intro music... where framerates didn't matter, because you WERE in fact driving a Lotus Esprit on the Pacific Coast Highway... and on and on and on..

I sense a YouTube gameplay binge session coming on... 🙂

[Quasimodo 505]

3 hours ago, Avidean said:

OK that's it I'll try to install it and see what it makes of windows 10, 5.3ghz and a 2080ti 🤣

couldn't do it. It would complete the installation in XP compatibility mode. I do care enough to figure it out.😒

[jcomm 5,890]

https://www.microprose.com/news/microprose-is-back#

[Saunameister 41]

i loved the grand prix series back in the 90s! played GP2 - GP4 all the time as a kid!

[Chock 17,769]

Been watching this for a while. I still play their B17 sim regularly and am hoping that they may revist it with a new version. Note that their three forthcoming new titles are listed on Steam, so you can add them to your wishlist and get updates info.

[honanhal 1,420]

This is great news! And three launch projects I'd already been following with interest, too. This has really put a smile on my face.

James

[Jude Bradley 659]

2 hours ago, Chock said:

Been watching this for a while. I still play their B17 sim regularly

I used to play that on the Amiga 600. Great times. Didn't the Bomb-aimer mission take place on the Isle of Sheppey or something?

 

 

Edited May 5, 2020 by Jude Bradley

[HiFlyer 9,343]

Jose beat me to it 😄

 

[Quasimodo 505]

Meh

[Jazz 1,046]

Wow, this is a blast from the past. The hours of my life spent on Grand Prix and F-19 Stealth Fighter on my Amiga 600.

Happy days.

[Pastaiolo 1,686]

Having played Cold Waters, i am mostly looking forward to the "Sea Power" one. I can see lots of similarities with Cold Waters.

 

I also hope everybody else can look at the screenshots and the videos and realize these are not meant to be simulators, but can still be enjoyable 🙂 Like any other game

[Nedo68 533]

aaaah nice, hehe this looks like just for the ancient folks 😉

From F-15 Strike Eagle to Falcon-4.0 i flown everything (and later Gunship) but what I remember most about is Grand Prix from Geoff Crammond.

I don't expect much here beside a few nostalgic moments, but lets see.

[Sethos 4,300]

Yeah, I'm going to remain very pessimistic because MicroProse isn't back, it's mostly just the name. I believe there's just a single guy who was on the original team, the co-founder Bill Stealey and that's it. Then you have a brand new team, working on 3 titles at once? That means we won't see any of the golden era MicroProse magic and worse, few developers can work on 3 games simultaneously and still maintain a modicum of quality standards. I worry these games will be below average money flips. Those are just the 3 titles we know of as well, we've seen even more titles teased... Imagine if they are working on 4-5 or even 6 games behind the scenes? Jeez. 

I am more than ready to be proven wrong though. 

Edited May 5, 2020 by Sethos

[ryanbatc 12,812]

52 minutes ago, Jazz said:

Wow, this is a blast from the past. The hours of my life spent on Grand Prix and F-19 Stealth Fighter on my Amiga 600.

Happy days.

F19 was the best.... I was a little guy when that came out!