Cool oldies: Over the Reich/Achtung Spitfire

CCIP · 12-04-06, 01:15 PM

Anyone ever played these?

It's a two-part series of 1996/1997 that, at its more basic, is a tactical wargame (and in one limited mode - strategic) - and at higher difficulty levels, about as close as one gets to a 2D, turn-based flight sim

It seems terribly addictive - a real joy to play. Hard as hell, too - even at simpler difficulty levels, going up with a flight of Hurris against a larger force of Me-109's is as merciless as it should be. The graphics, cartoony though they might be, are actually quite cool.

I recently came across them by accident (yes I realize abandonware is discouraged at subsim; but I was simply too young when snagging a real copy was still realistic) and have enjoyed them quite a lot. In fact I'll even try to trace them down on e-bay somewhere now.

NeonSamurai · 12-04-06, 01:28 PM

Ah yes the oldies, i recently dug up and played Gato on dosbox. talk about memories hehe. Dosbox is great for those old dosgames you may have kicking around. Some day i plan on dusting off my ultima collection (fortunatly all on cd) and playing all of it again

As for abandonware as you know your not suppost to discuss it here etc. If the game has been released as freeware though then it is of course permited.

CCIP · 12-04-06, 01:36 PM

Ah yea, now THAT's a real oldie. I suppose it's all relative.

One nice plus about these, though, is that they were built for Windows 95 and thus require no tricks to run on XP.

I don't know if I'd be able to, say, get back into an old simulator now - however much I loved Silent Service - but a wargame is a different deal. And OtR/AS, to me, still seem fresh enough 10 years on. In fact, ironically I find them about the same graphically as the much more recent Navy Field that's advertised at the top of the page here!

Sailor Steve · 12-04-06, 06:18 PM

I still have my old Atari 520ST, and Battlehawks, Their Finest Hour, Silent Service, SSII and Pirates (plus Oids, Wizball and a few other silly games).

TheSatyr · 12-11-06, 11:15 AM

I always did wish that someome would make an updated version of OTR/AS,and add in the PTO and Russian theater as well.

Those were highly addictive and enjoyable games.

bradclark1 · 12-11-06, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSatyr

I always did wish that someome would make an updated version of OTR/AS,and add in the PTO and Russian theater as well.

Those were highly addictive and enjoyable games.

Matrix is redoing them.

12-04-06, 01:15 PM	#1
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Cool oldies: Over the Reich/Achtung Spitfire Anyone ever played these? It's a two-part series of 1996/1997 that, at its more basic, is a tactical wargame (and in one limited mode - strategic) - and at higher difficulty levels, about as close as one gets to a 2D, turn-based flight sim It seems terribly addictive - a real joy to play. Hard as hell, too - even at simpler difficulty levels, going up with a flight of Hurris against a larger force of Me-109's is as merciless as it should be. The graphics, cartoony though they might be, are actually quite cool. I recently came across them by accident (yes I realize abandonware is discouraged at subsim; but I was simply too young when snagging a real copy was still realistic) and have enjoyed them quite a lot. In fact I'll even try to trace them down on e-bay somewhere now. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

12-04-06, 01:28 PM	#2
NeonSamurai Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Socialist Republic of Kanadia Posts: 3,044 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	Ah yes the oldies, i recently dug up and played Gato on dosbox. talk about memories hehe. Dosbox is great for those old dosgames you may have kicking around. Some day i plan on dusting off my ultima collection (fortunatly all on cd) and playing all of it again As for abandonware as you know your not suppost to discuss it here etc. If the game has been released as freeware though then it is of course permited. __________________ SH3 Newbie Guide Links and other helpfull stuff

12-04-06, 01:36 PM	#3
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Ah yea, now THAT's a real oldie. I suppose it's all relative. One nice plus about these, though, is that they were built for Windows 95 and thus require no tricks to run on XP. I don't know if I'd be able to, say, get back into an old simulator now - however much I loved Silent Service - but a wargame is a different deal. And OtR/AS, to me, still seem fresh enough 10 years on. In fact, ironically I find them about the same graphically as the much more recent Navy Field that's advertised at the top of the page here! __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

12-04-06, 06:18 PM	#4
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I still have my old Atari 520ST, and Battlehawks, Their Finest Hour, Silent Service, SSII and Pirates (plus Oids, Wizball and a few other silly games). __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

12-11-06, 11:15 AM	#5
TheSatyr Captain Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 545 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I always did wish that someome would make an updated version of OTR/AS,and add in the PTO and Russian theater as well. Those were highly addictive and enjoyable games.